A Family by Any Other Name

There’s an exquisite hopefulness to this book, despite the difficulties many of its contributors have endured. Marriage, parenting, family-building, are presented as fresh and filled with sweetness.

—Body Language Journal

The average quality of the essays here is remarkably high. I like to think people who identify as queer take it extra seriously when we set out to tell our stories, but it must also be true that Gillespie is a fine editor who knows how to inspire his contributors.

—The Coastal Spectator

The stories are beautiful, without shying away from intelligent critique. They are by turns tragic and joyful.

—Bunch Family

The rigid expectation of what a

family

should look like is something many of us find stifling as we move toward creating our own. Nowhere is this struggle more keenly felt than in the queer community, which faces social and legal hurdles that make the pursuit of family difficult, impossible, or even dangerous . . . This book is about what is possible in the face of what you're told is not.

—Quill & Quire Magazine

The collection comes from a sometimes brutal but consistently affirming place of honesty, which makes it both fascinating and essential reading.

—Curve Magazine Selected as a finalist for the 27th annual Lambda Literary Awars for best LGBT Anthology. A Family by Any Other Name awarded the Silver Medal for Gay / Lesbian / Bi / Trans Non-Fiction by the 2015 Independent Publisher (IPPY) Awards.