Out Behind the Desk : Workplace Issues for LGBTQ Librarians

Intro -- Workplace Issues for LGBTQ Librarians -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Part One: Trajectories -- A Small Town Start -- Sexuality, Students, and Disclosure -- Girl meets girl. Girl works with girl. Girl falls in love with girl… -- It's Okay to -- Gay… A Librarian's Journey to Acceptance and Activism -- Out of the Frying Pan: Coming Out As a Culinary School Librarian -- Part Two: Sex and the Institution -- Gay Librarians on the Tenure Track: Following the Yellow Brick Road? -- Out All Over: Giving Voice to LGBTs on Campus -- Managing Outside the Closet: On Being an Openly Gay Library Administrator -- Homophobia in San Antonio -- Part Three: The Rest of the Rainbow -- Leather Librarian -- Gender Changer -- The Secret Life of Bis: On Not Quite Being Out and Not Quite Fitting In -- Passing Tips and Pronoun Police: A Guide to Transitioning at Your Local Library -- Part Four: Coming Out in Time -- Out Lines: An LGBT Career in Perspective -- Outness and Social Networks: From Closet to Container Store -- The Challenges of Coming and Being Out in Historical Perspective -- Curating William Inge -- Part Five: Coming Out in Place -- Activism in Colorado: How Life and Librarianship Bloomed in the Desert West -- In and Out Behind the Desk-In and Out of the Country -- "Do They Know?" A Gay Librarian at a Catholic University -- All About My Job Hunt: The Diary of a Wannabe Librarian -- Part Six: Coming Out in the Field -- Pride and Paranoia @ Your Library -- When is the Personal not Professional? An Exploration -- Out in the Classroom -- Taking the Homosexual Highroad -- Patricia's Child, Patrick's Penis & the Sex of Reference: A Lesbian Librarian's Log of Perverse Patronage -- On Being -- Imagination and Gay Librarianship -- Contributors -- Index.