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No Place Like Home : Relationships and Family Life among Lesbians and Gay Men

Carrington, Christopher [Verfasser]

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009

Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest

1 Online-Ressource (287 pages)

Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender, and Culture

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978-0-226-09484-7 ; 978-0-226-09485-4

 

In this rich, surprising portrait of the world of lesbian and gay relationships, Christopher Carrington unveils the complex and artful ways that gay people create and maintain both homes and "chosen" families for themselves. "Carefully separating stereotype from reality, Carrington investigates family in the gay and lesbian community. Relying upon interviews and observation, the author analyzes the loves and routings of 52 diverse lesbian, gay, and bisexual couples in the Bay area. . . . [He] closes the work with a discussion of the raging same-sex marriage debate and posits an enlightened solution to this dilemma." -Library Journal.