Description: "Out of the Ordinary" is a groundbreaking collection of essays by teen and adult children of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender parents. The essays range from humorous to poignant and provide insight into numerous topics on dealing with a parent's sexuality while figuring out one's own. 100 photos.
Brief description: Noelle Howey is the co-editor of Out of the Ordinary: Essays on Growing Up with Gay, Lesbian and Transgender Parents, winner of two 2000 Lambda Literary Awards. She has also written for Ms., Jane, Mother Jones, Teen People, Bitch, Mademoiselle, and Self. A finalist for a GLAAD Media Award, she received a 2001 Nonfiction Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. An Ohio native, Noelle Howey lives in Minneapolis with her husband.
Review Quotes:
"Groundbreaking, long overdue, thoughtful and moving--an impressive collection not only of remarkable stories, but of remarkable writing." --Lisa Miya Jervis, editor, Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture
"One of the best collections I've read in 20 years . . . [these] remarkable essays will educate and entertain." --Ritch Savin-Williams, author, And Then I Became Gay "These are voices we have not heard. There is gold in these pages." --Riki Wilchins, author of Read My Lips: Sexual Subversion and the End of Gender "Out of the Ordinary succeeds in putting words to the strange, often difficult realities of a peculiar type of growing-up. In doing so, it becomes a rare gem, a book that is as compelling as it is important." --Chelsea Cain, Ms.