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God vs. Gay? The Reli­gious Case for Equality
Jay Michael­son
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Law­ful­ly Wed­ded Hus­band: How My Gay Mar­riage Will Save the Amer­i­can Family
Joel Derfn­er
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Brand­ed by the Pink Triangle
Ken Setterington
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Lies About My Family
Amy Hoff­man
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Grow­ing Up Golem: How I Sur­vived My Moth­er, Brook­lyn, and Some Real­ly Bad Dates
Don­na Minkowitz
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A Ship With­out A Sail: The Life of Lorenz Hart
Gary Marmorstein
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The Ven­tril­o­quists
E.R. Ramzipoor
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The His­to­ry of Liv­ing Forever 
Jake Wolff
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The Bridge to Hope & Heal­ing: 9 Prin­ci­ples to Guide You in a Moment of Crisis
Becky Schwartz Corbett
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The Soul of the Stranger: Read­ing God and Torah from a Trans­gen­der Perspective
Joy Ladin
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Acts of Assumption
S.W. Leich­er
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The Pater­ni­ty Test
Michael Lowen­thal
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Octo­ber Mourn­ing and Tikkun Olam

Lesléa New­man is the author of 60 books includ­ing her most recent book, Octo­ber Mourn­ing: A Song for Matthew Shep­ard. She is blog­ging here today for Jew­ish Book…
Lesléa New­man
October 3, 2012
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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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Moses: A Stranger Among Us
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