On My Honor: Lesbians Reflect on Their Scouting Experience

by Nancy Manahan

Book Overview

Nancy Manahan shattered centuries of taboo when she and Rosemary Curb published the critically acclaimed Lesbian Nuns: Breaking Silence. Now, Manahan is back looking at another taboo subject -- the presence of lesbians in the Girl Scouts.For years, the Girl Scouts, the largest voluntary organization of girls and women in the world, has sent a clear message to the lesbians in its ranks -- stay hidden. Although some lesbian girls and women have felt...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1886231028
• ISBN13: 9781886231023
• Release Date: January 1802
• Publisher: Madwoman Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Entertaining Reassurance

This is a wonderful book of personal stories and entertaining anecdotal pieces such as 'All I really need to know about being a Lesbian I learned at girl scout camp.' From a personal perspective this book was a gentle re-assurance that I and my circle of lesbian girl scout friends are not alone. This book underlines a belief that I have always had, that the lesbian connection is a spiritual one foremost and a sexual one as a result. There is such a warmth,bonding, and level of oneness that you can feel with a woman, that for me has never been possible with a man, despite my own 11 year marriage. I discovered this "lesbian connection" while being a counselor at a girl scout camp and fell in love with another wife/mother much like myself. Our love bloomed quite naturally and a year later we were both divorced and living a completeness we never knew existed. It was then that it was revealed to us that there were several others like us - in our own council. They sensed what was happening with us, stood back and let the journey take it's course. This book is a gentle and sincere voice that needs to be heard all across America in GS Councils everwhere.