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Resources and Support for Jewish Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender People:

Organizations:
World Congress of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Jews
http://glbtjews.org

Mosaic: The National Jewish Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity
http://jewishmosaic.org

National Union of Jewish GLBT Students
http://nujls.org

SVARA: A traditionally radical yeshiva for queer Jews and straight allies
SvaraProject@aol.com


Listserves

Jewish GLBT Discussion Groups Links
http://eskimo.com/~rmisaac/gayjews.html

Nice Jewish Girls -- an email list for Jewish Lesbian and Bisexual Women
http://geocities.com/WestHollywood/3222/

TransJews
http://geocities.com/WestHollywood/Chelsea/1500

GayJews.net
http://gayjews.net

Twice Blessed: The Jewish GLBT Archives Online [no longer updated]
http://usc.edu/isd/archives/oneigla/tb/

Books and Articles:

Dancing on Tisha B’Av by Lev Raphael

Unheroic Conduct: The Rise of Heterosexuality and the Invention of the Jewish Man by Daniel Boyarin

Aron Betokh Aron (A Closet Within a Closet), by Irit Koren, Yedioth Ahronoth, Israel

Judaism and Homosexuality: An Authentic Orthodox View by Rabbi Chaim Rapoport

"Orthodox Lesbians: Not A Contradiction in Terms" by "Devorah," from Sappho in the Holy Land, SUNY Press

Queer Theory and the Jewish Question, edited by Daniel Boyarin, Daniel Itzkovitz, Ann Pellegrini

Queer Jews edited by David Shneer and Caryn Aviv

Twice Blessed: On Being Lesbian, Gay, and Jewish edited by Avi Rose and Christie Balka

Lesbian Rabbis edited by by Rebecca T. Alpert, Rabbi Sue Levi Elwell, and Shirley Idelson

An Underground Life: Memoirs of A Gay Jew in Nazi Berlin by Gad Beck (University of Wisconsin Press, 1999)

Yentl's Revenge: The next wave of Jewish Feminism edited by Danya Ruttenberg (Seal Press)

Like Bread on the Seder Plate: Jewish Lesbians and the Transformation of Tradition edited by Rebecca Alpert

Nice Jewish Girls: A Lesbian Anthology edited by Evelyn Torton Beck

A Gay Synagogue in New York by Moshe Shokeid

Found Tribe: Jewish Coming Out Stories and Kosher Meat edited by Lawrence Schimel

The Burning Bush: Jewish Women Write About Sexuality edited by Lawrence Schimel and Rachel Kramer Bussel

Stone Butch Blues written by Leslie Feinberg

The Tribe of Dina by Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz

Men with Pink Triangles written by Heinz Heger and translated by David Fernbach

Journeys & Arrivals: On Being Gay and Jewish written by Lev Raphael

The Far Euphrates by Aryeh Lev Stollman

Hot Chicken Wings and Cravings by Jyl Lynn Felman

The Same Embrace by Michael Lowenthal

Lesbiot: Israeli Lesbians Talk About Sexuality, Feminism, Judaism and Their Lives edited by Tracy Moore (Cassell Press)

Between Sodom and Eden: A Gay Journey Through Today's Changing Israel by Lee Walzer (Columbia press)

Independence Park: The Lives of Gay Men in Israel (Contraversions: Jews and Other Differences) written by Amir Sumaka'i Fink and Jacob Press

Sappho in the Holy Land, SUNY Press

Films:

For films, visit http://www.tremblingbeforeg-d.com/ ...
or
http://www.jewishfilm.com/jewsub.html#Gay