Out of the Ordinary: Essays on Growing Up with Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Parents - Softcover

"Groundbreaking, long overdue, thoughtful and moving--an impressive collection not only of remarkable stories, but of remarkable writing." --Lisa Miya Jervis, editor, Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture

"One of the best collections I've read in 20 years . . . [these] remarkable essays will educate and entertain." --Ritch Savin-Williams, author, And Then I Became Gay

"These are voices we have not heard. There is gold in these pages." --Riki Wilchins, author of Read My Lips: Sexual Subversion and the End of Gender

"Out of the Ordinary succeeds in putting words to the strange, often difficult realities of a peculiar type of growing-up. In doing so, it becomes a rare gem, a book that is as compelling as it is important." --Chelsea Cain, Ms.

Noelle Howey is a freelance editor who has contributed to numerous magazines and web sites, including Ms., Self, Time Out, Mademoiselle, and Mother Jones. She is also the author Dress Codes.

Ellen Samuels is an award-winning poet and teacher who lives in Berkeley, California. She holds an M.F.A. in creative writing from Cornell University and has published poetry and articles in numerous literary journals.