{"id":30980,"date":"2020-10-05T09:20:38","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T09:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/lgbt-families-by-nancy-j-mezey\/"},"modified":"2025-05-17T14:58:43","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T14:58:43","slug":"lgbt-families-by-nancy-j-mezey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/lgbt-families-by-nancy-j-mezey\/","title":{"rendered":"LGBT Families by Nancy J. Mezey"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>LGBT Families<\/em><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><\/em><\/h3>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Nancy J. Mezey<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Nancy J. Mezey&#8217;s LGBT Families presents a comprehensive yet accessible understanding of LGBT families today by drawing upon and making sense of the burgeoning scholarly literature about LGBT families from the late twentieth and early twenty first centuries. 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Mezey, LGBT Families\">Google Books<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<div>\n<h2>Details<\/h2>\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\n .TFtable{\n  border-collapse:collapse; <\/p>\n<p> }\n .TFtable td{ \n  spacing:10px; border:#ffffff 5px solid; padding-right:20px<\/p>\n<p> }\n \/*  Define the text for all the 2nd columns  *\/\n .TFtable td:nth-child(2){\n  color: #0099ff;\n }\n<\/style>\n<table class=\"TFtable\">\n<tr>\n<td>ISBN<\/td>\n<td>9781483321776<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Genre<\/td>\n<td>Parenting &#038; Families<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Publication Date<\/td>\n<td>2015<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Publisher<\/td>\n<td>Sage Publications, Inc<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>No. of Pages<\/td>\n<td>232<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Language<\/td>\n<td>English<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Rating<\/td>\n<td>NotRated<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>BookID<\/td>\n<td>15409<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nancy J. Mezey | LGBT Families | Nancy J. 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