Out behind the desk : workplace issues for LGBTQ librarians / / edited by Tracy Nectoux.

• Superior document: Series on gender and sexuality in librarianship ; no. 1
• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Nectoux, Tracy Marie.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Gender and sexuality in librarianship ; no. 1.
• Physical Description: xiv, 275 p.

"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.

Table of Contents

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 -- Gay librarians on the tenure track : following the yellow brick road? / Paul Blobaum -- Out all over : giving voice to lgbts on campus / Donna Braquet & Roger Weaver -- Managing outside the closet : on being an openly gay library administrator / Matthew Ciszek -- Homophobia in San Antonio / David Allen White -- Leather librarianship / John Bradford -- Gender changer / Jim Van Buskirk -- The secret life of bis : on not quite being out and not quite fitting in / BWS Johnson -- Pronoun police : a guide to transitioning at your local library / K.R. Roberto -- Out lines : an lgbt career in perspective / Robert B. 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 -- 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 -- Maria t. accardi / Pride and Paranoia @ Your Library -- 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) Smith -- On being as if : imagination and gay librarianship / William A. Thompson.