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History of Gay People in Alcoholics Anonymous: From the Beginning (Haworth Series in Family and Consumer Issues in Health)
History of Gay People in Alcoholics Anonymous From the Beginning - Haworth Series in Family and Consumer Issues in Health Author:Audrey Borden History, recovery, and wisdom from lesbians and gay men with long-term sobriety in Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous meetings for gay people convene in regularly in more than 60 cities in the United States and in 20 countries world-wide. Thousands of LGBT people have changed their lives for the better using the principle... more »s of AA. The History of Gay People in Alcoholics Anonymous documents and honors the ways they have carried AA's message. This illuminating chronicle presents interviews, transcripts of recordings, and documents that detail the compelling history, recovery, and wisdom of gay people in AA. The social stigmas against both alcoholism and homosexuality are still strong. As the debate over the full inclusion of gay people in our society continues, Alcoholics Anonymous, one of the world's most respected organizations, has also grappled with this issue. The History of Gay People in Alcoholics Anonymous documents the challenges AA faced as the fellowship endeavored to become a more inclusive, cohesive community. The first-person accounts maintain appropriate anonymity while revealing the important work of many AA members, both gay and straight, leading to key events in AA's history. Appendixes review the steps and traditions of AA, the list of narrators, and ways the reader can become an ally to LGBT people on the road to recovery.. Topics in The History of Gay People in Alcoholics Anonymous include: The gay origins of AA's Third Tradition
A comparison of treatments for alcoholism and homosexuality
Compelling portraits of sober gay life in the 1950s and 1960s
The debate in AA over meetings for gay alcoholics
Interviews with members and co-founders of the first gay AA meetings
The history of the first gay AA/Al-Anon conference
Interviews with pioneering gay addiction professionals
The history of AA pamphlet "AA and the Gay/Lesbian Alcoholic"
Alcoholics Together, and why a parallel AA organization for gay alcoholics formed in southern California
strategies AA's gay members developed to make their meetings simultaneously safe and public--and why some of them are still necessary today
and much more!
The History of Gay People in Alcoholics Anonymous is important, enlightening reading for members of the LGBT recovering community, heterosexual members of AA and other 12 Step programs, alcoholism and addiction professionals, physicians, counselors, psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, clergy, historians, sociologists, educators, students, or anyone interested in learning more about AA or this aspect of their community's history.« less