Imagine Valentine's Day. Then imagine a party, a hundred or so people crammed inside a small, upstairs apartment; from someone's iPod we hear "indie" music ironically spliced with flavor-of-the-month club hits. Imagine, also, a young man. His name is Christopher. He sits on a couch, beside two Spanish boys.I must explain: two Spanish boys, both lovely and smiling and pleasant; with hands tucked tightly into their laps, they will giggle at someone, anyone, for having said or done som...

Johnny Thunders is dead. Hit and run. Hadn't seen my poor, neglected Johnny in months, and here I am burying him. With my bare hands and a shovel I am burying him. In the backyard of the house Phoebe and I had once lived in together, he is being buried. I look over and see Flora, Phoebe's bitch mother, the same woman who's convinced everyone, including Phoebe, what a "childish mess" I am; which, in a sense, is true, but Christ, what a lousy thing to tell people—to take so much pleasure in ...

For the first time ever, managers will have a tool that will enable them to effectively grapple with the controversial, and sometimes explosive issues surrounding sexual orientation. Cultivated from Bob Power's 25 years business experience with some of the world's finest organizations, A Manager's Guide to Sexual Orientation in******the Workplace provides managers with the knowledge, skills and resources to foster higher productivity and performance through an all...

This title combines original research, case studies, and synoptic analysis to cover highly charged topics in America today. Each chapter in this edited volume offers conditional responses to three essential questions about the disciplinary status of homeland security: What are the domain’s central problems? What research methods are best able to address those problems? What has research contributed to addressing homeland security’s core problems?The volume is divided into two main ...

Saliva, or Drowning Pool, or something kicked me in the dick through a shitty PA system as a big son-of-a-bitch announced as Loco Mask II—wearing a sequined blue hood with crazy yellow dragons stitched onto the sides—charged through the curtain and down the aisle towards a shoddily built ring. On his way there, an old woman in the crowd lobbed a plastic cup of beer at him. It exploded against his greasy pectorals.Mom said to me, "That's Jack. He's what you call a 'heel'—a bad guy."

In dit praktijkgerichte werkboek word je stap voor stap ingevoerd in de principes van de Rationeel-Emotieve Training, de RET. De RET gaat ervan uit dat het vaak niet de situaties zelf zijn die stressgevoelens en niet-effectief gedrag veroorzaken, maar de gedachten over die situaties. Gedachten en emoties die flexibel en productief functioneren in de weg staan, kun je zo veranderen dat ze je niet meer blokkeren. Aan het werk met de RET Aan de hand van veel oefeningen en opdrachten leer je m...

Far from mere idle tales, rumors are a valuable window into our anxieties and fears. Rumors let us talk as a community about some very inflammatory issues--issues that may be embarrassing or disturbing to discuss-allowing us to act as if we are talking about real events, not personal beliefs. We can air our hidden fears and desires without claiming these attitudes as our own. In The Global Grapevine, two leading authorities on rumor, folklore, and urban legend--Gary Alan Fine and ...

“Those of us in our forties and fifties came of age in the 1960s and 1970s--a time when the available commentary on gay life was anything but supportive. Until 1973, homosexuality was a diagnosable mental illness.” --from the Introduction by Alan L. EllisToday, that literary blindness is being remedied. Take an in-depth look into the lives of 15 gay men and how they relate to their own aging with Gay Men at Midlife: Age Before Beauty, a fascinating new book that explores and clarifies the ...

The book charts the author's journey from the moment of learning that his recenlty married wife has been killed in a car accident thorough the first two years.The second section adds some pragamatic Q&A about dealing with grief and its aftermath such as how and when to dispose of the deceased's clothes, etc.

Parole and probation officers must deal with individuals suffering from psychiatric or substance abuse disorders on a frequent basis. Ellis Amdur and Alan Pelton offer parole and probation officers a comprehensive set of strategies to keep themselves as well as the general public safe, while functioning at the highest level of professionalism.The first section of this book offers an overview of the role of community corrections in dealing with the mentally ill and/or substanc...

Available open access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.How families are formed, lived and understood has shifted dramatically—yet legal frameworks often still reflect outdated norms. This collection brings together a diverse team of international contributors to explore what a family is through a variety of disciplinary perspectives, including law, psychology, economics, family science and history, inviting transdisciplinary reflections on family regulation.By examining how legal ...

Sexual Identity on the Job provides academics and practitioners with a solid resource for addressing sexual identity concerns and issues in the workplace. It offers corporate trainers, managers, and policymakers suggestions for creating a positive psychological environment of inclusion for all workers through policies of nondiscrimination, the availability of domestic partner benefits, and solid efforts to eliminate on-the-job discrimination toward lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgende...