Foreword, Kai Cheng Thom
Introduction, Stephanie Schroeder and Teresa Theophano
Part I: Conversations About Mental Health and Wellness
1. Falling Between the Cracks of Queer and Black, Tanisha Neely
2. Queer Affirmative Therapy, Arlene Istar Lev
3. Not All Wounds Are
Visible, Louisa Hammond
4. Border/ lines, Juan Antonio Trujillo
5. Sa Kanyang Sariling Mga Salita: Health, Identity, and Articulations of Self, Donald V. Brown, Jr., with Fidelindo A. Lim
6. Trust Me, I'm a Doctor, Lynn Breedlove
7. LGBTQ Substance Abuse and Mental Health Issues:
A Provider's Journey, Joseph Ruggiero
8. The Bone Crushing, Bill Konigsberg
Part II: Stories of Survival
9. In Chiron's Footsteps, Paula J. Williams
10. Not Our Fault, Chana Wilson
11. Figuring It Out Together: Mental Health Survival Strategies from Detroit's Queer and Trans
Youth of Color, Lance Hicks
12. Sisyphus (or: Rocks Fall and Everyone Dies), J. R. Sullivan Voss
13. The Family Legacy Ends Here, Teresa Theophano
14. Roll the Dice, Michael Brown
15. Jesus and the Closets, Sara Zaanti
16. The Lived Experience of LGBT Veterans: Finding
Support Within the VA Healthcare System, Kathryn Wagner
Part III: Encounters of the Mad Kind
17. Psychiatry, Kate Millett
18. Surviving Science, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Being Mad and Queer, Calvin Rey Moen
19. Knowing Reynolds, Lucy Winer
20. On a Subway
Platform, a Life Flashes- Here, Gone, Antoine B. Craigwell
21. This Work Is About Digested Socks, Gabrielle Jordan Stein
22. Taming My Inner Fundamentalist, Kelly Barth
23. Fix Me Please: I'm Gay!, Guy Albert
24. Crowdsourcing My Antipsychotic, Stephanie Schroeder
Part IV:
Pushing Boundaries
25. On Listening to Clients, or Why Do Providers Sometimes Have a Hard Time Hearing What Recipients of Care Have to Say?, Christian Huygen
26. Problem Glyphs, Eliza Gauger
27. Erasure, Gabriella M. Belfiglio
28. Informed Consent, Asher J. Wickell
29. Bad
Penny, J. M. Ellison
30. Liberating The Big Pink Elephant in the Therapy Room, Thomas Mondragon
31. GLEAM, Nikkiesha N. McLeod
Part V: The Poetics of Mental Health and Wellness
32. Outlier: The Agoraphobia Fragments, Kevin Shaw
33. Were You Confused as a Child?, Stephen Mead
34. Pleasure- Based Parenting, Crista Anne
35. Doctor Anonymous: A Play, and a Lesson in Medical Ethics, Guy Fredrick Glass
36. Jekyll's Lover, James Penha
37. Feathers, Benjamin Klas
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Stephanie Schroeder, JD, is a freelance writer based in New York City. Her work has been anthologized in: That's Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation (Soft Skull Press, 2008); Here Come the Brides!: Reflections on Lesbian Love and Marriage (Seal Press, 2012); and Easy to
Love but Hard to Live With: Real People, Invisible Disabilities, True Stories (DRT Press, 2014). Schroeder is a part-time peer advocate and the author of the memoir Beautiful Wreck: Sex, Lies & Suicide (Creative Evolution, 2012).
Teresa Theophano, LMSW, is a freelance writer/editor and
full-time social worker working with LGBTQ older adults in New York City. The volume editor of Queer Quotes (Beacon Press, 2004) and contributor to numerous anthologies and websites including xoJane.com and glbtq.com, Theophano has been involved in mental health advocacy and LGBTQ movement building
for years. She is the co-founder of the NYC Queer Mental Health Initiative (QMHI), a peer-based support network based in Brooklyn, and is at work on a co-written volume about queer suicide prevention and postvention.