"50 Ways to Support Lesbian and Gay Equality: The Complete Guide to Supporting Family, Friends, Neighbors or Yourself..." is a collection of short essays about GLBT issues. It's edited by Meredith Maran but has a vast collection of different writes contributing to it's pages.
This book opened my eyes in a number of ways, many of them frightening. The amount of rights denied to homosexual couples is appalling. I honestly had no idea that marriage conferred so many things in the eyes of the law. But it also speaks of positive gains in areas of adoption law.
This book is from several years ago, and doesn't contain information on the recent law changes in NY. Its information is not limited to American anglo-saxon experiences: the contributors run the cultural gamut.
It's a must read for anyone who cares about, or is, GLBT.
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