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Coming Home to America

By Torie Osborn

An inspirational call to involvement for all gay and lesbian Americans, their families, and friends, Coming Home to America speaks compellingly to the hundreds of thousands of gay people struggling with their closets, with the ongoing agony of AIDS in our time, and with the daily drama of finding love and work in the face of ongoing social stigma.

Sharing the voices of hundreds of people whom activist Torie Osborn has met and worked with, Coming Home to America paints an expansive picture of gay and lesbian life that is colorful, bold, and optimistic. Osborn shows how every lesbian and gay man who comes out of the closet is making a profound social change simply by living their daily lives. Moreover, Osborn argues that within the stuff of everyday gay life lies the potential for important new public values and visions to help rebuild America's hope for the future.

Against the backdrop of today's mass gay and lesbian migration from social exile and stifling silence, as invisibility, denial, and taboos about homosexuality are finally eroding, Coming Home to America is a visionary book promoting love and healing, faith and morality, family and community. It celebrates the ways in which ordinary people become extraordinary when they walk through their own fears and take control of their destiny.

Torie Osborn has been a political activist for over thirty years. A national leader of the gay and lesbian movement, she is the former executive director of both the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Community Services Center and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. She holds an M.B.A. from UCLA and works as a management consultant, trainer, lecturer, and writer based in Washington, D.C.

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