A Weird Request
Sep. 19th, 2003 07:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mousmeWell, not really all that weird when you know my mother. *sigh*
I'm looking for European books and/or articles on GLBT issues, especially ones that have to do with acceptance/tolerance, what have you. Not necessarily religious (in fact, preferably not), but they have to be written by a European, preferably with some sort of academic credentials.
For those of you who don't know my mother and haven't heard me rant about her lately: I love her dearly, but she's a racist homophobic bigot. If I'm ever to come out to her (which is not in my plans for the immediate future), I need to arm myself with a very particular arsenal.
See, she hates the US with a particular passion, and thus will dismiss anything produced there as uneducated garbage. Please, please, please don't post a comment here about how wrong she is and how America has produced great classics, blah blah blah. I know it, you know it, you'd be preaching to the choir. However, in the 24 years I have known her I have never been able to shake this conviction of hers. She views Canada in the same way, since it's been "contaminated" by its southern neighbour.
She's European, and while she has this weird inferiority complex about other Europeans, she does tend to take anything produced by that continent as gospel. In fact, I usually have to avoid talking to her after she's been watching Bouillon de Culture or Thalassa or some other program on TV5, because she'll spout on and on about how "brilliant" the people on the show were (regardless of what they were saying, I might add: she likes the way things sound *rolls eyes*).
Don't bother with stuff from other continents, she'll dismiss that too, unfortunately.
Can you help me out? I've been looking, but I don't really know where to start. Anything you can come up with is good, anything at all.
Just please don't post telling me my mother is insane/bigotted/whatever: I already know, and I'm trying to work with what I've got, okay? Thanks. :)
I'm looking for European books and/or articles on GLBT issues, especially ones that have to do with acceptance/tolerance, what have you. Not necessarily religious (in fact, preferably not), but they have to be written by a European, preferably with some sort of academic credentials.
For those of you who don't know my mother and haven't heard me rant about her lately: I love her dearly, but she's a racist homophobic bigot. If I'm ever to come out to her (which is not in my plans for the immediate future), I need to arm myself with a very particular arsenal.
See, she hates the US with a particular passion, and thus will dismiss anything produced there as uneducated garbage. Please, please, please don't post a comment here about how wrong she is and how America has produced great classics, blah blah blah. I know it, you know it, you'd be preaching to the choir. However, in the 24 years I have known her I have never been able to shake this conviction of hers. She views Canada in the same way, since it's been "contaminated" by its southern neighbour.
She's European, and while she has this weird inferiority complex about other Europeans, she does tend to take anything produced by that continent as gospel. In fact, I usually have to avoid talking to her after she's been watching Bouillon de Culture or Thalassa or some other program on TV5, because she'll spout on and on about how "brilliant" the people on the show were (regardless of what they were saying, I might add: she likes the way things sound *rolls eyes*).
Don't bother with stuff from other continents, she'll dismiss that too, unfortunately.
Can you help me out? I've been looking, but I don't really know where to start. Anything you can come up with is good, anything at all.
Just please don't post telling me my mother is insane/bigotted/whatever: I already know, and I'm trying to work with what I've got, okay? Thanks. :)
