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    Octo­ber Mourn­ing: A Song for Matthew Shepard
    Lesléa New­man
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    Odd­ly Nor­mal: One Fam­i­ly’s Strug­gle to Help Their Teenage Son Come to Terms with His Sexuality
    John Schwartz
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    Through the Door of Life: A Jew­ish Jour­ney Between Genders
    Joy Ladin
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    Moses: A Stranger Among Us
    Mau­rice Harris
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    In This Day and Age?! A Com­mu­ni­ty at the Cross­roads of Reli­gion and Homosexuality
    Isaac Nam­dar
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    Light Fell
    Evan Fal­l­en­berg
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    Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice
    Janet Malcolm
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    Jew­ish Gen­tle and Oth­er Sto­ries of Gay-Jew­ish Living
    Daniel M. Jaffe
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    Dear­est Anne: A Tale of Impos­si­ble Love
    Judith Katzir; Dalya Bilu, trans.
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    Dis­obe­di­ence
    Nao­mi Alderman
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    Sweet Like Sugar
    Wayne Hoff­man
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    Angels in Amer­i­ca: A Gay Fan­ta­sia on Nation­al Themes
    Tony Kushner
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    Nice Jew­ish Girls: A Les­bian Anthology
    Evelyn Torton
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    Like Bread on the Seder Plate: Jew­ish Les­bians and the Trans­for­ma­tion of Tradition
    Rebecca Alpert
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    A Let­ter to Har­vey Milk: Short Stories
    Lesléa New­man
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    Twice Blessed: On Being Les­bian or Gay and Jewish
    Christie Balka and Andy Rose, eds.
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