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    LGBTQ

    Essay

    Why Did You Mar­ry When You Knew You Were Transsexual?

    This week, Joy Ladin, the author of Through the Door of Life: A Jew­ish Jour­ney Between Gen­ders blogs for The Post­script on an unan­swered ques­tion that many…
    Joy Ladin
    August 20, 2013
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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
    Cover of Lies About My Family
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    Lies About My Family
    Amy Hoff­man
    Cover of Growing Up Golem: How I Survived My Mother, Brooklyn, and Some Really Bad Dates
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    Grow­ing Up Golem: How I Sur­vived My Moth­er, Brook­lyn, and Some Real­ly Bad Dates
    Don­na Minkowitz
    Cover of A Ship Without A Sail: The Life of Lorenz Hart
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    A Ship With­out A Sail: The Life of Lorenz Hart
    Gary Marmorstein
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    Fic­tion
    The Ven­tril­o­quists
    E.R. Ramzipoor
    Cover of The History of Living Forever
    Fic­tion
    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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    Fic­tion
    Acts of Assumption
    S.W. Leich­er
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    Fic­tion
    The Pater­ni­ty Test
    Michael Lowen­thal
    Essay

    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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