Out behind the desk : workplace issues for LGBTQ librarians

"An anthology of personal accounts by librarians and library workers relating experiences of being gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, or queer at work. A broad spectrum of orientations and gender identities are represented, highlighting a range of experiences of being and/or coming out at work"--Provided by publisher.

Foreword / Ellen Greenblatt. Pt. 1 : Trajectories. A small town start / Ryan Donovan -- Sexuality, students, and disclosure / Johnnie Gray -- Girl meets girl. Girl works with girl. Girl falls in love with girl -- / Brenda Linares and Emily Vardell -- It's okay to be gay: a librarian's journey to acceptance and activism / Jason D. Phillips -- Out of the frying pan: coming out as a culinary school librarian / Rachel Wexelbaum -- Pt. 2 : Sex and the institution. Gay librarians on the tenure track: following the yellow brick road? / Paul Blobaum -- Out all over: giving voice to LGBTs on campus / Donna Braquet and Roger Weaver -- Managing outside the closet: on being an openly gay library administrator / Matthew P. Ciszek -- Homophobia in San Antonio / David Allen White -- Pt. 3 : The rest of the rainbow. Leather librarianship / John P. Bradford -- Gender changer / Jim Van Buskirk -- The secret life of Bis: on not quite being out and not quite fitting in / BWS Johnson -- Passing tips and pronoun police: a guide to transitioning at your local library / K.R. Roberto -- Pt. 4 : Coming out in time. Out lines: an LGBT career in perspective / Robert Ridinger -- Outness and social networks: from closet to container store / Lia Friedman -- The challenges of coming out and being out in historical perspective / Richard Hulser -- Curating William Inge / Marcel LaFlamme -- Pt. 5 : Coming out in place. Activism in Colorado: how life and librarianship bloomed in the desert West / Chris Hartman -- In and out behind the desk -- in and out of the country / Kimberli Morris -- "Do they know?": a gay librarian at a Catholic university / Martin Garnar -- All about my job hunt: the diary of a wannabe librarian / Andy Foskey -- Pt. 6 : Coming out in the field. Pride and paranoia @ your library / Maria T. Accardi -- When is the personal not professional?: an exploration / Kellian Clink -- Out in the classroom / Ann L. O'Neill -- Taking the homosexual highroad / Nicola Price -- Patricia's child, Patrick's penis & the sex of reference: a lesbian librarian's log of perverse patronage / Shawn(ta) D. Smith -- On being as if: imagination and gay librarianship / William Thompson.