PART TWO: GAYS AND LESBIANS:
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL RESOURCES ANNOTATED
PART ONE: GAYS AND LESBIANS: REFERENCE
RESOURCES ANNOTATED
note: includes grants and funding resources
This popular and straightforward almanac in 25 sections includes: a
chronology of gay-significant events to 1990; biographies, one to four
paragraphs in length; religions/churches policies on gay concerns; state
laws (U. S.) governing homosexual acts; U. S. congressional voting records
(1987-89) on gay issues based on coincidence of legislator's vote with
that recommended by the Gay and Lesbian Task Force; openly gay office
holders (U. S.) through 1985 and selected officials through 1990;
dictionary of slang; advice on financial, legal, social, and health
issues; and sections devoted to addresses (travel destinations, cities,
gay bookstores, national organizations and hotlines, and penpals for
teenagers), each with a descriptive annotation.
Additional sections on books (pre-Stonewall gay writings; selections of
best and worst; and books of Alyson Publications), each with descriptive
annotation.
Index covers titles, persons, organizations and subjects.
Mainly U. S. Annotation based on 1st ed. (1989)
The main body of the guide lists 330 bi and 1,372 bi-inclusive groups in
25 countries with the U.S. and Canada being further subdivided by state
and province; followed by 164 electronic sources. Entries typically list
address, contact person, fax, telephone, e-mail, website address and
publications, as applicable, sometimes accompanied by a brief description
of target group and mission statement; with one or more of 18 symbols
denoting kind of group (college/university, youth, educational,
activist/political...)
The directory is preceded by publishing opportunities; meetings and
conferences; a 6-page annotated bibliography of non-fiction and
fiction (by genre) books on bisexuality; an annotated list of 69 films
with bisexual characters; and safer sex commentary.
For further information on bisexuality consult the Bisexual Resource Center's website:
http://www.biresource.org/.
Signed articles, sometimes with bibliography, seek to cover the entire
range of knowledge, study, opinion and thought concerning homosexuality
with international and historical coverage; interdisciplinary. Articles
include person- actual, mythological and literary (Santayana, Orpheus...);
place (San Francisco, Sparta...); culture (Pacific Cultures,
Paleo-Siberian Peoples...); historical periods (Middle Ages...); concepts
and terminology (Particular Friendships, Queen...); movements and events
(Stonewall Rebellion) and subjects (Military, Film...) Cross-referenced;
indexed.
Serious criticism claims contributor misattributions, especially for some
articles on women. (See: "Pseudonym or Hoax? Publisher halts sales of
encyclopedia after controversy over authorship," Chronicle of Higher
Education. May 26, 1995, pp. A10, A14). New edition under new editorship
underway.
A compilation of gay and lesbian "firsts" (lesbian Nobel Prize
winner, gay rodeo, lesbian palimony suit...) and other records (largest
gay and lesbian archive in the U. S., largest gay synagogue, best-selling
lesbian book...) In eight subject sections: history, community, education,
religion, politics, law, the arts, the media. The history section includes
two subsections, language and theory. With the exception of history,
"firsts" are overwhelmingly Americentric. Sports, health,
occupation and other "firsts" not having separate sections are
folded into the Community section along with organizations and events.
First gay contributors and contributions in the natural and physical
sciences are all but excluded.
Sources not cited, although sometimes referred to within the text. The far
from comprehensive index includes titles, organizations, personal names
and a few of the thematic subjects covered in the text.
A popular compendium of nearly 100 gay and lesbian lists "to amuse,
not instruct" the reader; in seven sections, loosely approximating
subject areas as follows: 1) relationships and sex, 2) the nature of
homosexuality and coming out, 3) history, 4) literature and books, 5)
politics and law, 6) media and celebrities, and 7) a pot pourri.
A few of the lists are taken from the Advocate or the Encyclopedia of
Homosexuality, but generally sources are not cited; does not duplicate
lists in the Gay Book of Lists, Lesbian Lists, or the Gay Fireside
Companion. For "firsts" see her The First Gay Pope and Other
Records.
Some of the the lists are purely diversionary (things not to say if you
want to keep your lover; popular birthdays), while others are of
substance (massive anti-gay purges; people who confronted the military).
Primarily U. S. focus.
A thorough index including titles, subjects, organizations,
and persons much enhances the potential reference value of this work.
A web index with links to GLBT organizations and publications in the
Northwest (Washington, Oregon, Alaska, Idaho) and British Columbia. Seeks
comprehensiveness for non-profit organizations and businesses that provide
information. In eleven sections:
Bookstores; Business/Employees; Civil Rights/Law/Politics; Community
Centers/Activities; Culture, History & The Arts/Music/Literature/Radio/TV;
Education/Schools/Universities; Foundations;
Health:
Education/Research/Support/Treatment; Newspapers/Publications/Publishers;
Recreation/Social/Sports; and Religion/Spirituality.
Site is regularly updated and maintained.
A web index with links to national and international GLBT
organizations and publications. Selective. Inclusion dependent on
currency, usefulness in providing reference information, and value to
research; especially seeks to include information rich and full text
websites.
In nine subject areas: Academic/Professional; Archives;
Bookstores/Videostores; Business; Culture, History, and the Arts;
Health/Support Groups/AIDS; Human Rights/Law/Politics;
Newspapers/Journals/Publishers; Religion; Sports and Recreation.
The Business section includes organizations for glbt businesses and
business persons. The index includes no private businesses except
information providers, for which, see: Bookstores/Videostores and
Newspapers/Journals/Publishers.
Large city and major regional newspapers are considered national if their
websites include full text reporting.
Site is regularly updated and maintained.
Clearly organized and highly useful, this almanac relevant to the gay male
experience in the United States and Canada is in 8 sections: 1) an
historical chronology, 16th century to the present, 2) brief
(2 to 5 lines) biographies; 3) quotations by broad subjects
(Art and Sensibility, Identity...) related to gay male life, 4) glossary
of sayings, slang, signs and symbols, 5) statistics, 6) life and culture
in 18 sections Legal Issues, Performing Arts...), 7) An Aids primer
including chronology, quotations, statistics, glossary, guidelines and
organizations, and 8) and 9) national directories of lesbian and gay
community centers; and organizations and resources, respectively.
The information is richly enhanced throughout by well-chosen bibliography,
thoughtful discussion, lists, annotations, photographs, and, at times,
practical advice.
Index is thorough, easy-to-use, and includes persons, titles,
organizations, and subjects. Well-researched with many useful citations
to sources.
Although gay male centered, much information has direct relevance to
lesbian concerns also. See also its companion almanac: The Lesbian
Almanac.
Among the almanacs the two are superior from a reference standpoint.
In twenty subject categories, such as: Academics; Athletes, Artists & Entertainers; Fundraising/Philanthropy; Libraries; and Religious. Lists individuals and organizations in the U.S. with addresses, and where applicable, contact person, major activity, and publications.
An all-Canada guide, 'the nation's largest gay directory" to over
3,600 LGBT-run or LGBT-friendly business and community listings covering
216 cities. Arranged alphabetically and heirarchically by province,
city, and kind of service, resource, or business. Information for each
listing includes, as applicable, name, address, telephone, fax, BBS,
e-mail, website, hours, form of payment accepted, brief description,
catalog price, publication frequency, and languages spoken. A series of
symbols further identifies primary clientele, profit/non-profit status,
and wheelchair accessibility.
Annual. 1st ed., 1997. Compact and easy-to-use.
Subscribers may search online: http://www.gayguide.ca
gaycanada.com, Canada's
Community-Based GLB Information Network, is searchable (at no cost) for
GLB organizations, either by the organization itself or by province or
city. http://www.cglbrd.com.
Gay Histories and Cultures constitutes one (the other is Lesbian Histories
and Cultures) of the bibliographically separatist two-volume Encyclopedia
of Lesbian and Gay Histories and Cultures, the unacknowledged successor to
the Encyclopedia of Homosexuality. Some of the articles are completely or
all but completely unchanged; others are new or much developed.
Articles are signed and contributors identified. Some contributors are
established scholars; others are newly-minted academics, graduate
students, journalists, editors, psychologists, librarians, novelists, and
activists.
The A-Z arrangement of articles is enhanced by a broad subject guide and
well-developed index. Articles include persons, organizations, countries,
publications, movements, concepts, and cultural, social, and political
phenomena related to gay life and culture. Each article ends with a
brief bibliography and see also references to related articles.
Photographs and other graphic works of varying degrees of value are
occasionally helpful.
Covering a global and pan-historical range of topics without subscribing
narrowly to any particular theory or point-of-view, the articles tend to
be intelligently matter-of-fact rather than intellectually challenging;
and even-tempered. Quietly gay-friendly and for the most part
unobtrusively politically correct, this encyclopedia will be acceptable
and useful to most readers.
As may be expected by the construction of the work, the similarities and
overlapping nature of many gay and lesbian experiences are obscured,
although by no means denied. Certainly both the gay and the lesbian
volumes need to be explored on all broad social, cultural, and political
topics.
This encyclopedia focuses on 20th century (especially 1966-1996) gay
and lesbian life and identities as developed in Europe, North America, and
anglophone countries with some examination of those influences in the
non-European and non-English speaking world; and also on historical
persons, events, and cultures, with an emphasis on those having
significant impact and resonance among gays and lesbians today.
Entries include persons; political, social, and cultural phenomena and
performances; gay venues; organizations and collectives; behaviors;
concepts; academic disciplines (Anthropology, Biology...) and their
contributions to GL studies; and religious denominations with their
positions on and actions concerning GLBT issues.
The already considerable reference value is further enhanced by useful
charts and lists, such as Lambda Literary Awards (under Awards); list of
gay games with venues, dates and participant/attendance statistics (under
Gay Games); a list of detective authors with series protagonist(s) and
setting(s); and a list of terms commonplace in queer theory (but rarely
used in ordinary discourse) with definitions (under Queer Theory).
Well-chosen photographs throughout.
The authors have clearly made extensive use of the ever expanding
documentation and literature in gay and lesbian studies, not only drawing
from general and academic publications, but from gay community
publications as well; this is reflected in the contents throughout and in
the brief bibliographies that accompany most entries.
A 73-page chronology of dates significant in queer history follows the A-Z
section.
The work concludes with an index to persons, places, subjects, concepts,
organizations, and publications as these occur throughout the work. An
altogether accessible and eminently readable source. Well balanced and
researched.
Clearly organized and highly useful, this almanac relevant to the lesbian
experience in the United States and Canada is in 8 sections: 1) an historical
chronology, 16th century to the present, 2) brief (2 to 5 lines)
biographies; 3) quotations by broad subjects (Art and Sensibility, Lesbian
Feminism...) related to lesbian life, 4) glossary of sayings, slang, signs
and symbols, 5) statistics, 6) life and culture in 18 sections (Legal Issues,
Performing Arts...), 7) An Aids Primer including a chronology, quotations,
statistics, glossary, guidelines and organizations, and 8) and 9) national
directories of lesbian and gay community centers; and organizations and
resources, respectively.
The information is richly enhanced throughout by well-chosen bibliography,
thoughtful discussion, lists, annotations, photographs, and, at times, practical
advice.
Index is thorough, easy-to-use, and includes persons, titles, organizations,
and subjects. The index entry under "books" leads the user to
the various subject bibliographies within the text. Well-researched with
many useful citations to sources.
Although lesbian centered, much information is of direct relevance to
general gay concerns also. See also its companion almanac: The Gay
Almanac. Among the almanacs the two are superior from a reference
standpoint.
Lesbian Histories and Cultures constitutes one (the other is Gay
Histories and Cultures) of the bibliographically separatist two-volume
Encyclopedia of Lesbian and Gay Histories and Cultures, the unacknowledged
successor to the Encyclopedia of Homosexuality. Some of the articles are
completely or all but completely unchanged; others are new or much
developed.
Articles are signed and contributors identified. Some contributors are
established scholars; others are newly-minted academics, graduate
students, journalists, editors, psychologists, librarians, novelists, and
activists.
The A-Z arrangement of articles is enhanced by a broad subject guide and
well-developed index. Articles include persons, organizations, countries,
publications, movements, concepts, and cultural, social, and political
phenomena related to lesbian life and culture. Each article ends with a
brief bibliography and see also references to related articles.
Photographs and other graphic works of varying degrees of value are
occasionally helpful.
Covering a global and pan-historical range of topics without subscribing
narrowly to any particular theory or point-of-view, the articles tend to
be intelligently matter-of-fact rather than intellectually challenging;
and even-tempered. Quietly lesbian-friendly and for the most part
unobtrusively politically correct, this encyclopedia will be acceptable
and useful to most readers.
As may be expected by the construction of the work, the similarities and
overlapping nature of many lesbian and gay experiences are obscured,
although by no means denied. Certainly both the lesbian and the gay
volumes need to be explored on all broad social, cultural, and political
topics.
Eric Marcus supplies fair-minded, commonsense answers to questions asked
about gay life and culture. The answers vary in length from one to
several paragraphs depending on the need for explanation. Some questions
merely call for factual answers, such as "What is National Coming Out
Day?," and others require discussion and review, such as "How
do grandparents react to a gay grandchild?"
Although sources are seldom mentioned, Mr. Marcus
is well-informed and not attached to any particular set of beliefs. His
aim is to enlighten the general reader, and to dispel commonly-held
presumptions and prejudices.
Arranged in 20 subject categories, such as self-discovery,
socializing and friends, religion, sex, and sports. Contemporary, North
American focus.
Concludes with a several page bibliography of basic, recent books mainly
dealing with family, school, work and gay relationship concerns; and a subject
index to themes, persons, and organizations.
A compendium of facts, addresses, lists, and topics often supported by
explanations and commentaries to advise and inform the U. S. and Canadian gay
male on a wide range of contemporary (1991) political, social, cultural and
lifestyle issues from a popular gay male perspective.
In eight topical sections: 1) organizations, 2) communications,
3) culture, 4) campus life, 5) work, economics, relationships, and health,
6) sports, 7) religion, spirituality, and therapies; and 8)
entertainments.
A single index is heirarchically arranged by state or province, then by
city, and finally by organization or title. Topical approach requires search
of the fairly detailed and easy-to-scan contents pages. More refined
topical approach requires scanning the text.
A popular and fascinating book of lists of lesbians and facts, terms, and
curious beliefs pertaining to lesbians and at times, women generally.
Lesbian is broadly interpreted to include "women-identified-women"
and women who lived independently of and mainly separately from
men. Divided into five thematic sections: Arts and Letters,
Amazons and other Exotics (women choosing unusual lifestyles and
non-traditional roles, such as, witches, explorers, and sex radicals),
Switch-Hitters (bisexuals) and Cross-Dressers, Lesbians
and the Law; and A Global Affair (list of cities with lesbian archives, and
lists of Dutch, Swedish, German, English lesbians; and lesbian writers
and artists from Asia).
Some lists are predictable: Lesbian Novelists and Lesbians Appointed or
Elected to Public Office, but others, such as, All-Female Animal
Societies, are less so. A few lists include named sources.
Concludes with a bibliography of fifty-eight titles.
Table of contents, but, unfortunately, no index.
This popular compendium in dictionary arrangement covers a wide and often
unpredictable (Graves of Famous Gay People in the U. S. -Where Located) array
of subjects to amuse and inform gay readers.
Entries include biographies, incidents, terms (often sex-related), titles,
and facts ranging from the ordinary (Bookstore, Gay- Oldest in U. S.) to the
most curious (Cockroaches-Conversion to Homosexuality...)
Lack of index precludes easy use for reference, as many biographies are
grouped under shared aspect: Mothers, Fascinating of Famous Gay Men; Diaries,
Private- Gay Men...; and many facts, quotations, and excerpts are grouped by
kind: Camp Lines, Memorable and Quotable from the Movies; Limericks, Gay;
Graffiti, Gay- Historical...
Some entries are mini-chronologies, such as: Aids Epidemic...1981-1988
(over 36 p.) and Drag, a Brief History of (over 6 pages) Sources rarely
cited. No table of contents.
Although intended for leisure, it has reference value for the persistent,
unhurried user.
Nearly 100 lists, primarily concerned with gay men, ranging from the
trivial (former jobs of gay celebrities) to the serious; 13 lists deal with
censorship, discrimination, and homophobia; 12 with terms, language and
language use; 8 with the military; 5 with religion; and many deal with
biographical facts, gay relationships, gay culture, or aspects of sex and
sexuality. Sources not cited.
Index includes personal names and titles in the lists,
and terms and topics that are the subject of lists.The table of contents is
lengthy and uncategorized.
The New Gay Book of Lists has dropped numerous lists from the 1987 ed.
(Gay Book of Lists: Suz HQ 76 .R88 1987), added 30 new lists, and revised
and updated others.
16 topical sections (Civil Rights/Law, Demographics/Social Activities, Public Opinion...) No index; requires thorough examination of each section. Very brief entries; citations listed at end of each section. Sources vary widely. Many popular sources; information often not based on random samples, nor necessarily from original source. Includes hard-to-find data. Not definitive. Includes useful chronological table of efforts (and results) to determine number of gay people. Almost exclusively U.S. One topical section- "international"- devoted to non-U.S. information.
This comprehensive review of the glbt experience in the United States from
the 1940's to the mid 1990's is an anthology of 22 well-composed,
consequential topical surveys (coming out, politics, literature, sports,
law, performing arts...) and a collection of 17 major texts and
documents.
The first and last surveys are histories, national and regional, entitled
'Chronology' (although not a list of dates) and 'Local and Regional
Views,' respectively. Characteristically each topical article addresses
the important developments, achievements, conflicts, and issues that
pertain and concludes with profiles of prominent persons and well-chosen,
lengthy bibliographies of books, articles, and internet sites. The
surveys are neither over-interpretive, nor sterile, and strike a good
balance between information and meaning. Its title notwithstanding,
this work is more encyclopedic than almanac-like.
Photographs, charts, and tables enhance the text and are fully identified
in the acknowledgements. The articles are signed, and the authors (mostly
scholars and librarians) profiled briefly in 'Notes on Advisors and
Contributors.'
The thorough and easy-to-use index works well as the necessary key for
those seeking facts and identifications; however, users desiring the
greatest rewards will read the intelligent and accessible survey articles
on the topical aspects of American gay life, society, and culture; and
closely examine the bibliographies for more information and study.
Dictionary of often hard-to-find definitions and
accounts of groups, organizations, persons, places, events, titles (films,
books, laws, ...), genres; concepts, terms (including slang), and phrases;
quotations and subjects significant to gay and lesbian culture.
Limited cross-references; no index; no bibliography
or source references. At times, frustratingly brief, casual or vague.
This directory seeks to meet the needs of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and
transgendered community, and is an extensive listing of that community's
organizations, bookstores, presses, and magazines; and service
organizations supportive of it. International in scope, the great
majority of organizations listed are in the U. S. or Canada. Impressive,
but not comprehensive list.
Arranged in 10 subject areas: 1) Arts and Literature,
2) Community, 3) Family, 4) Health and Aids, 5) Legal and Political
Action, 6) Media Action and Archives, 7) Spirituality and Religion,
8) Sports and Recreation, 9) Work, and 10) Youth.
Within each group, organizations are presented by country and for the
U. S. and Canada by state and province, respectively.
In addition to directory information (address, telephone,
fax and e-mail addresses, as available), some entries include a
description of the organization and statement of its purpose. Each section
concludes with online resources: websites, online services, usenet, the
net, and BBS.
The directory is developed by the Bridges Project of the American Friends
Service Committee, clear and bold in its support of the gay community.
Accordingly each section begins with a statement of concern and
encouragement; and throughout the work inserts "spotlight"
features highlighting individuals who have made considerable contributions
to the gay community, leading organizations, and important themes in gay
political and social life. The "spotlights" are each about a
page in length and distributed across the top of several pages.
Provided with 2 indexes: a geographic index by country and for Canada and
the U. S. also by province and state; and a general index to organization
names and the persons and themes in the "spotlights."
Discursive presentation in 10 chapters of aspects and concerns of gay/lesbian American (U.S.) life. Popular format includes numerous lists, tables, quotes, photographs, illustrations, bios, facts (dates, statistics, chronologies...) and histories often placed within discussion or as sidebars; 10 thematic chapters:
WEB SEARCH SITES AND PRINTED GUIDES TO WEB/ELECTRONIC INFORMATION
In 68 subject chapters, this encyclopedic survey of gay and lesbian
sources available on the internet covers social groups, activity groups;
tourist, events, and sports information; health and sex information; political
groups; issues information (legal, religious...); employment information;
online magazines and newspapers, cultural information (books, movies,
operas...); gay and lesbian organizations; and non- U. S. sources (Canada,
International…).
The Queer Resources Directory and the Queer InfoServer are, due to their
breadth, depth, and links, among the most important sites. Additionally,
Yahoo Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Resources; and sites in the chapter on
Gay and Lesbian History, are especially important for students and
researchers.
Index covers a wide range of persons, places, titles, web site names,
organizations, and subjects.
The considerable expansion (20%) from the 1st edition which appeared just
a year earlier is a dramatic indication of the rapid growth of GL information
available electronically.
A popular, and at times distracting, hyperventalative tone pervades this
guide to gay and lesbian sites and online services. In three parts: Part I
serves as an introduction to online services with an unabashed promotion
of America Online; to the web generally including a guide to twenty-six
significant gay sites (pp. 11-17), important because of their structure
and extensive linkages; and to the effective use of search engines with
particular emphasis on Lycos (publisher of the guide). Includes a list of
internet service providers (pp. 6-7)
Part II is a guide in 8 chapters to: 1) cultural
(art, film, music, literature, drama, bookstores) information sources;
2) gossip and celebrities; 3) hobbies, crafts and personal/family
relationships; 4) health and sports; 5) diverse sex-interest communities;
6) religion; 7) political, activist, subgroup (deaf, Asian American, youth,
students....) information resources, and computer-interest groups; one
section devoted to state and local organizations by state; and
8) international and non-U.S. organizations and interest groups, divided
by country.
Part III is a guide to businesses, and business and legal
organizations/interest groups including employment; workplace issues;
sexual orientation policies; gay employee groups and business associations
by type, i.e., bookstores, bars, travel agencies, including those that
offer online shopping; legal marriage interest groups; health issues; gay
friendly legal firms and associations; and legal resources. In spite of
several annoying features such as indecisive subject treatment and
assertively tacky language, this is a worthy guide. The annotations to the
websites throughout are clear and informative, and the concluding index to
site names is often all the reader would need to make good use of the
guide.
A CD accompanies the text which includes an appendix fully explaining the
CD application.
An enthusiastic, breezy, and often opinionated guide to gay and lesbian
interest sources online and how to use them; emphasizes entertainment
(including porn) and social (meeting people, dating, conversation) interests,
but also includes a chapter on health sources, and a chapter, "The
World of the Computer Geek," devoted to traditional research
interests.
Critically reviews the many providers and forms of online resources:
e-mail, listservs, usenet, chatrooms, bulletin boards, commercial services,
newsgroups, and web sites; provides many addresses and descriptions of
specific online sites. Advice, caveats, and attitude throughout.
Some unexpected, but welcome features: 1) a guide to "cybercafes,"
coffee houses that make computers and other online equipment/services available
to clients, and 2) a list of terms censored by AOL. The final chapter
reviews print magazines concerned with computers and online topics.
Two glossaries conclude the work, a useful one of computer terms, and a
useless one of gay terms.
The arrangement and style of the guide inhibit efficient reference use;
however, a thorough index to subjects, persons, titles, and organizations
assures easy access to specific sources cited in the text.
PlanetOut Search is the search engine for PlanetOut that completely
revised its website in the Fall of 1999 and in so doing, much increased
its efficiency and sophistication. The powerful search engine (formerly
called NetQueery, itself a development of InfoQueer created by David
Stazer in 1993) allows the user to limit a search to glbt sites, glbt
news sites, or mainstream sites, and moreover, may further limit to broad
topical (arts, health, history, family, etc.), geographic, or community
(bears, lesbian, youth, etc.) sites. Results are easy to apprehend, and
each site found includes a link to sites that have linked to the site
found. This enables the user quickly to establish a network of often very
closely related sites.
PlanetOut itself is arranged in five heirarchical categories, the first
two of which are available to all, and the last three of which are
available to members; as follows:
1) Topics- news and politics; travel; popcorn/movies; radio; money and
careers; entertainment; and families;
2) People- information about persons, divided by topics (same as in topics
section) with which they are associated;
3) Personals- personal ads searchable/placeable by gender, geography, and
age span; available to members;
4) My Planet- form to login and establish membership (free);
5) Shopping- books (by topic), music (by genre), DVDs and videos (by
topic); travel and other shopping interests; available to members.
A highly democratic, broad spectrum website. The website is funded by
advertisers. (site reviewed 1-24-00)
A queer megasite with thousands of links. Easily approached by 1) twelve
major headings: Queers and their Families; Queer Youth; Queers and Religion;
Queer Health; Electronic Resources; Queer Media; Queer Events; Queer
Culture, History, and Origins; Worldwide Queer Info; Business, Legal and
Workplace Issues; Politics, Political News & Activism; Organizations,
Directories & Newsletters or 2) a subject tree with 24 primary subject
areas, e.g., AIDS, events, and religion, with each subject area further
subdivided into ever more more refined subtopics. An excellent,
easy-to-use, and intuitive source. Queer community focus. Provides search
option.
This source is in some respects showing its age; numerous 'file not found'
responses.
Founded by cyber activist Ron Buckmire. (site reviewed 2-9-98)
A major, easy-to-use search engine to queer resources on the internet. Searcher may select from 15 major subject categories (Arts and Entertainment; Community; Erotica; Government and Politics; Health and Fitness; Living; Money and Business; News and Media; Reference; The 'Net; Bisexual; Gay Men; Lesbian; Transgender; and Youth) or from approximately 200 more refined categories ranging from Activist Groups to Queer Theory to Women's Art, and perform simple or Boolean searches. Over 30, 000 URLs. Claims to be the "the largest, most complete GLBT search on the Internet." Produced by Atlantis InterNetworks, San Francisco. reviewed 2-9-98
An LGB megasite with thousands of links, it being one of the massive yahoo
system. Many users will find it much easier and faster to use the basic
yahoo address (http://www.yahoo.com), then click on Society and Culture,
then on Cultures and Groups, and then on Lesbians, Gays, and Bisexuals,
rather than enter the lengthy LGB address and arrive directly.
Search option provided in addition to 26 major subject headings:
Anti-Violence Resources; Arts and Humanities; Companies;
Computers and Internet; Cultures and Groups; Disabilites; Education;
Entertainment; Events; General Interest; Government; Health; History;
Issues and Causes; Libraries and Archives; News and Media; Organizations;
Parenting; People; Recreation and Sports; Regional; Relationships; Religion;
Sexuality; Travel; and Usenet.
Easy to use. Of the many GLBT websites available, Yahoo's has the clearest
research focus.
Yahoo! Transgendered has its own site:
http://www.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/Cultures_and_Groups/Transgendered/
11 subject headings: Cross Dressing; Entertainment and the Arts; Events;
Gender Reassignment Surgery (GRS); General Resources; Mailing Lists;
Organizations; People; Publications; Transitioning; and Usenet. Search
option available. As with the LGB site, many will find it easier to arrive
at this site through the basic yahoo address (http://www.yahoo.com), then
click on Society and Culture, then Gender, then Transgendered.
Produced by Yahoo, Inc., Santa Clara, CA. reviewed 2-9-98
Includes 40 individuals (9 lesbians, 31 gay males) prominent in history and culture. Bios are brief (6-page) and focus on major achievements and gay relationships. No bibliography.
An encyclopedic compilation of 275 biographies, varying from one to three
pages in length, of gays and lesbians, both historical and contemporary
figures from all walks of life. World-wide scope, although more than 75%
are anglophones.
The biographies, written by experts identified in the Notes on
Contributors section, give standard biographical information with a focus
on sexual orientation factors and how those shaped and informed the
biographees' lives, activities, and contributions.
The essays are cogent, well-balanced, readily accessible, and neither over
interpret nor over simplify. Each entry concludes with useful source
references. Photographs enhance many of the biographies.
The work has three indexes: 1) nationality, 2) occupation, and 3) subject,
i.e., major influences, interests, or activities, such as Buddhism, art,
film criticism...
This worthy and useful work also appeared in a smaller version of 70
biographies-mostly of contemporaries-entitled Outstanding Lives
(Visible
Ink Press, 1997), each entry accompanied by a full page photograph.
Intended for the amusement of gays, this compendium of biographies of "gay" persons is arranged by the biographee's birth date; consequently, the fortunately thorough index of all persons named in the text is a necessity. Biographies rarely exceed a brief paragraph in length and concentrate on concise identifications leading to aspects of the subject's gayness or supposed gayness. Usually only one person is entered under each day; each month concludes with a list of "Other Personalities" born that month, a kind of overflow list of very limited usefulness that gives no information beyond birth date, name, and occupation. At times the biographee's, for example, Rilkes's, "gayness" is limited to the purest supposition often based on his or her social acquaintances or milieu or on his or her appeal to gay sensibility. An offhand, complicitous tone sometimes obscures the meaning of the content. Numerous excellent photographs, etchings and other illustrations throughout the work. Sources not cited.
An extensive, pan-historical biographical lexicon of approximately 1,000
German-speaking gay men and men who experienced passionate same-sex
friendships. Includes only deceased men. Articles range from a paragraph
to two pages and conclude with source bibliography. Each article covers
the major facts, actions, and events of the biographee's life focusing
on male-male relationships and intellectual, creative, social, and
political commitments and developments with regard to same-sex love.
A thirty-page bibliography of sources precedes the biographies, and draws
on both primary and secondary literature with an emphasis on primary
literature when such exists.
The text also includes genealogies of the Eulenburg, Hohenzollern, and
Krupp dynasties, all families that included numerous prominent gays.
The work concludes with a chronological list of gay men arranged by
period in which they flourished, from the High Middle Ages and Reformation
to Post-reunification Germany; and an extensive index of all persons named
in the text. The index also includes groups of persons, such as: persons
who died of AIDS, Nazi members, gays persecuted by Nazis, gays from
various geographic regions, emigrants, and gay members of various groups
and movements.
The author is a scholar of medieval history and has produced several
studies of marginalized groups in the late Middle Ages including the
persecution of homosexuals in the inquisition.
In the lesbian-feminist tradition, Richards focuses on twelve lesbians,
here understood as women whose primary relationships in life, commitment and
work were with other women, seen as trail-blazing social and cultural heroes
who succeeded, in the absence of role models or support of the
dominant social institutions, by dint of the shared support and strength
of other women, often a particular woman and long-term partner.
The biographies ranging from 18 to 26 pages center on the relational
aspects of their achievements. The twelve are: James Miranda Barry
(physician in the British Army), Florence Nightingale (military nurse),
M. Carey Thomas (educator, dean of Bryn Mawr), Jane Addams (social worker,
pacifist), Lillian Wald (public health nurse), Alice Hamilton (physician,
medical researcher), Edith Hamilton (classicist), Natalie Barney (literature),
Sylvia Beach (publisher), A'lelia Walker (Harlem Renaissance socialite,
patron of the arts), Anna Freud (psychoanalyst and researcher), and Vita
Sackville-West (literature).
The work concludes with a bibliography of biographies, many of which
typically avoided, misinterpreted or gave short shrift to the centrality
of same-sex relationships in the lives and contributions of these women.
Ranks 100 persons who are deemed "most influential in their contributions to modern gay/lesbian identity," from Alexander the Great to Gertrude Stein. Bios range from 3 to 5 pages and focus mainly on those aspects of their life experiences with same sex persons, their thought, writings, or activism that identify them as seminal in the development of modern gay consciousness. With photographs, as possible. Brief quotations throughout are cited incompletely or not at all.
An encyclopedia of brief (several lines to a page) biographies of women
combatants, warrior queens, swordswomen, pirates, castle besiegers/defenders,
bomber pilots, and armed revolutionaries throughout history with
greater emphasis on ancient and medieval periods; world coverage. Some of
the women (Queen Christina, Anne Bonney...) are identified as lesbians.
Bios focus on combat history.
Although most of the women were actual persons, mythological women
(Hathor, Canidia...) and classes of warrior women (martial nuns of Europe
and the Crusades, warrior-courtesans...) are also represented.
Some of the entries have source references keyed to the select
bibliography (over 200 citations) which concludes the work.
Introductory material reviews the international state of lesbian
organizing and discusses two major organizations, ILGA (International
Lesbian and Gay Association) and ILIS (International Lesbian Information
Service).
The main body of the work is arranged in a geographic heirarchy (continent
or region, then country) as a guide surveying the legal and social
realities of lesbian life in countries of the world excluding the U. S.
excepting those organizations that have significant cross-cultural
affinities, such as those of Asian Americans.
Each entry discusses the legal status of lesbians and lesbian
organizations including founding date, purpose, publications and efforts
of those organizations; and organization directory information.
The work concludes with a directory of international lesbian (and
lesbian-gay) organizations.
Beginning in 1984, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Policy
Institute and its predecessors have annually published a report on
anti-gay/lesbian violence, victimization, and defamation under various
titles.
The scope and sophistication of the report have become more far-reaching
and complex as more data and cooperating report sources have become available.
In 1984 the report was based on reports from eight cities; by 1994,
twenty-five cities and organizations cooperated in providing data. In the
1994 report (published in March, 1995) the "Introduction"
describes the history and development of the project; the
"Methodology" outlines the criteria for inclusion and
definitions of terms. The statistical data and the descriptive,
clarifying, and evaluative discussion are presented in eleven
sections:
1) National Trends, 2) Multiple Assailants, 3) Offences per Incident, 4)
Physical Assaults and Seriousness of Injuries, 5) Offender
Age, 6) Law Enforcement Data/Hate Crimes Statistics Act, 7) Gender and
Anti-Lesbian Violence, 8) HIV Related Violence, 9) Gay Related Homicides,
10) Defamation (general public speech), and 11) The Social Context for
Anti-Lesbian/Gay Violence.; and are followed by "Recommendations"
(federal, then state level)
The report concludes with eight appendices: 1) Incident Descriptions,
2) Gay-Related Homicide Summaries, 3) Survey of Hate Crimes and
Discrimination in Jacksonville, Florida, 4) Offense Categories,
5) Summary of Data from National Tracking Programs; 6) Summary of Data
from Other Programs, 7) Offense by Bias Type & Motivations
(as reported to the FBI), and 8) Summary of Hate Crime Penalty Enhancement
and Data Collection Statutes (by state).
Data collection and processing under the auspices of the New York City Gay
and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project. Sources are cited.
Ceased with 1995. Other NGLTF related publications and press releases are
available through the NGLTF
homepage.
Seeks to provide practical assistance to lesbian and gay couples in legal
concerns specific to them by explaining laws,
legal resources and legal alternatives available. U.S. focus. Legal
subjects include:
sexual behavior; marital/partnership contracts; joint
ownership of properties; discrimination in owning, renting, cash
and credit, insurances, and domestic partnership laws; divorce,
children, child custody, parenting, foster parenting, adoption;
artificial insemination; rights of students and organizations;
name changes; immigration; welfare; separations; medical emergencies
and decisions; living wills, durable power; wills and estate planning;
taxes.
The introduction provides a state-by-state chart of current sodomy
laws. Appendices include: sample document forms for
durable-power-of-attorney (financial and medical), wills, forms for
living-together, joint tenancy and other kinds of agreements. Chapter 10
provides addresses of lesbian and gay bar associations, national lesbian
and gay legal organizations, and organizations that provide AIDS legal
referrals. Useful source references throughout included in index along with
subjects, persons, places, and cases.
This guide may be well used in conjunction with Lasser's Gay Finances in a Straight World.
A survey and analysis by the NGLTF of numerous polls conducted by CBS
News/New York Times, Gallup, Princeton Survey Research Associates, EDK
Associates, Mason-Dixon Political/Media Research, Roper, newspapers, and
interested political and anti-discrimination organizations.
NGLTF capsulizes the findings and accordingly makes recommendations
concerning the political achievement of its goal of equal rights for gays
and lesbians. Opinions polled pertain to questions of acceptance,
morality, equal rights, and level of voter support on various issues such
as employment. Some poll results are broken down by age, gender,
education, and political affiliation.
Sources are cited (sometimes incompletely) within the text, but the survey
lacks a comprehensive bibliography of the polls examined.
A compendium of major, full-text U.S. legal cases, laws, and significant
law journal commentaries concerning gay, lesbian, and bisexual litigation
questioning the constitutionality of sexual discrimination on the basis of
equal rights, personal privacy, equal protection, freedom of association,
freedom of speech, and due process.
In four volumes by broad subject areas: 1) homosexual conduct and state
regulation, 2) homosexuals and the military; equal protection of laws;
3) homosexuality, politics and speech, and 4) homosexuality and the
family; homosexuals as spouses and parents. "Each volume begins with an
introductory essay providing the historical background and a summary of
the most significant developments in constitutional law relating to the
themes of the volume."
Covers anti-gay activities, state-by-state, as expressed in statewide ballot measures, federal or state legislative battles, court decisions, local ordinances, education-related activity, arts censorship; and other incidents of a public policy nature. Based on interviews, primary and secondary literature. Opens with a discussion and analysis of the general scope of anti-gay activities followed by state-by-state reports and a national report. Discursive. No index, tables, or bibliography. Annual.
As with other Scarecrow Press publications of this kind, one is happy to
have it, but at the same time disappointed that it had not been more
thorough in coverage, more detailed, and better supported with
references.
A 28-page introduction recounts the factual history of the gay liberation
movement in three periods: the early period (1864-1935), the post-WWII and
pre-Stonewall period (1945-1968), and the post-Stonewall period (1969-
).
The dictionary entries (mainly organizations, persons, laws and legal
cases, with some publications and a mere handful of topical entries)
concentrate on the first two periods and the early years of the
post-Stonewall period (to 1978, the death of Harvey Milk), with relatively
few entries for the last twenty years.
The book's subtitle betrays the not persuasively justifiable focus on gay
men, although the series editor does advise that, "A subsequent volume
will trace the role of lesbians in the movement." The entries vary from a
paragraph to two pages, and average about a page in length. Consistent
with the nature of the introduction, the entries are factual and
non-interpretive, and would have been much enhanced, had they been
provided with bibliographical references.
As it is, a lengthy, unannotated bibliography concludes the work and
attempts to cover the entire range of gay and lesbian studies, from gay
relationships to religion. A focused, annotated bibliography of the gay
liberation movement would have been far more useful.
Readers will be grateful for the world-wide coverage and frequently find
information and discussion not in other glbt reference sources, such as
Daniel Guerin's gay activism or the Grupo Orgullo Homosexual de Liberacion
(Mexico).
A list of acronmyms and a chronology of the gay liberation movement
precede the introduction.
A basic handbook on gay and lesbian rights (as of 1992) in the U. S., in 8
sections:
1) freedom of speech and association, 2) employment, 3) security
clearance, 4) the armed forces, 5) housing and public accommodation,
6) the lesbian and gay family, 7) the rights of people with HIV disease.
For the last named, see the more up-to-date and expansive ACLU work by
William B. Rubenstein in this section of the bibliography.
Each chapter begins with a brief overview essay followed by a
question-and-answer format addressing specific issues concluding with a
thoroughly documented notes section that includes citations to numerous
official documents, cases, and commentaries.
The work concludes with 6 reference appendices: 1) Criminal statutes
relating to consensual acts between adults, 2) Excerpts from selected statutes,
ordinances, and executive orders, 3) a list of statutes, ordinances, and
executive orders, 4) Selected organizations providing legal assistance, 5)
State, regional and national offices of the ACLU, and 6) A brief
bibliography of nine especially recommended sources.
Describes separately each of more than 100 cited court (U.S.,
various levels) cases concerning sexuality in 9 topical areas:
reproduction, criminal law and sexual conduct, speech and association,
the family, discrimination (civilian), discrimination (military,
national security), educational institutions, immigration
and naturalization, and estates and trusts. Each of the topical areas
begins with a brief summary and bibliography. Numerous cases pertain
typically to gays and lesbians (The Gay Bar and the Right to Hang Out
there; Gays as Adoptive Parents; Can Gays be FBI Agents:...) Discussion
for each case (about 7 pages) covers historical background
of issues involved, particulars of the case, major arguments, decisions,
related cases, and ramifications. Case references in the discussion
are cited at the conclusion of each entry.
Back matter includes 1) Table of Cases, and Index of persons,
organizations, legal (due process of law...) and thematic topics (sexual
harassment...)
"Gays and Lesbians in American Politics" is chapter 6 (10 pages) of this
work that consists, as other chapters do for other groups, of political
facts, mainly notable "firsts," presented both chronologically and by
governmental level with a statistical account of gay/lesbian presence
among candidates (both successful and unsuccessful) for both elected and
appointed offices.
Brief, relevant political facts accompany each personal entry. Although
very slight in compass, this work will answer some questions not handily
answered otherwise, such as: Who was the first openly gay/lesbian federal
judge appointed? or Who was the first openly gay/lesbian elected a county
sheriff? or the total gays and lesbians who have served in Congress? and
who were they?
Other chapters concern women generally, Hispanics, African Americans,
Asian Americans, native minorities, and various ethnic and religious
groups.
Chronology of the first twelve years of organized gay liberation in Canada
from the founding of the Association for Social Knowledge (1964) to
the founding of the National Gay Rights Coalition (1975). Entries
emphasize political and legal actions, but embrace also a significant
range of cultural events including speeches, publications,
performances, discussions, conferences, and key dates in organization
histories.
Each entry is identified by city followed by a substantive
annotation and an impressive bibliography of information sources
including, among many others, those in the files of the Canadian Lesbian
and Gay Archives.
Concludes with three appendices: 1) A Checklist of Lesbian and Gay
Organizations (by city, West to East) in Canada, 1964-1975; 2) A Checklist of Canadian
Lesbian and Gay Periodicals (by title), 1964-1975; and 3) A Preliminary
Checklist of Lesbian and Gay Bars and Clubs (by city, West to
East), 1964-1975.
Index to the chronology includes persons, titles, subjects, organizations
and businesses. Several well-chosen photographs, e.g., members of
the Body Politic collective, augment the text.
In 7 parts. Part I has brief, descriptive reviews of major issues (Employment and Housing, Hate Crimes, Personal Issues...) with bibliography. Part II (1869-1994) is a chronology of events related to gay rights. Part III: 29 biographical sketches of leading figures in gay rights (Jesse Helms, Troy Perry, Gerry Studds...) Part IV: Cited, selected statements and documents on gay rights, legislation, domestic partnerships, court decisions, and military policy (Resolution Passed by the American Psychological Association, 1975; Jerry Falwell's Position on the Gay Rights Movement; State of Wisconsin Antidiscrimination Law...); includes lists where applicable: States that have abolished sodomy laws, states and municipalities with gay rights regulations...Part V, Directory of Organizations (national; state and local; pro and con) Part VI: selected bibliography of bibliographies, books, articles and journals. Part VII: Selected Nonprint Resources. Concludes with glossary and index of personal names, organizations, titles, and subjects.
A guide for the use of laypersons concerned with the rights of HIV
positive persons, especially those whose rights are directly affected; in
question-and-answer format. Applies only to the U. S.
No index; however, the table of contents is well organized in four broad
subject areas, each divided into chapters on specific subjects, as
follows:
1) Science and Public Health: HIV Disease, HIV Testing,
Confidentiality, Public Health Measures, Liability for Transmission of
HIV,
2) Living with HIV Disease: Health Care Decision making, Private Insurance,
Public Benefits, Planning for Incapacity and Death, Family Law,
3) Discrimination against People with HIV: in Access to Health Care, in
Public Places, in Employment, in Housing, and
4) HIV Disease in Special Settings: Schools, Prisons, Immigration, and
Injection Drug Use.
Each section and chapter begins with an essay (First Principles) reviewing
the subject generally, followed by questions and answers (Know Your Rights),
and then a commentary on the current status of the rights (Rights in
Action) as revealed by court actions and legal interpretations. The
answers are clear, jargon-free, and cite cases and other sources
that pertain. Each chapter concludes with a bibliography of cases and
works cited.
Among the appendices are national, state, and city addresses of selected
organizations providing legal assistance to people with HIV disease, and
offices of the ACLU; also a brief bibliography of AIDS law sources; and a
brief question-and-answer section of rights, lawyers, and the law
generally.
Part I is discursive and covers topics on various aspects of contemporary gay and lesbian politics, world-wide (Zimbabwe, China...) Part II is a country-by-country survey describing 1) official attitudes and the law, 2) society (general social response to gays), and when applicable, 3) description of the gay and/or lesbian movement. No index.
Anthology of 10 reprinted documents (9 German, 1 French)
significant to the concept and development of homosexuality and
homosexual rights. Documents include 4 letters of Ulrichs and
writings of Hirschfeld, two early advocates of the acceptance
of homosexuality.
No explanatory or introductory materials other than contents page. Sources
not cited, although, when available, title pages are included in the
reprints.
This anthology by Martin Duberman reflects the breadth and depth of his
involvement in gay and lesbian life and studies as scholar, teacher, essayist,
activist, autobiographer, and dramatist.
The first part reprints 32 documents (1826-1965) drawn from diverse
sources (archival and scholarly writings, as well as articles from gay,
popular, adventure, and scandal presses) serving to present a kaleidoscope of
views and approaches to the gay phenomenon.
The second part (17 of his own essays) is similar in breadth of subject
matter and includes an interview and several debates (reprinting letter
exchanges) that appeared in newspapers and journals. Contextualizing
commentaries introduce the documents and essays, which are often amply
provided with bibliography.
A superior core bibliography (34 pages) of gay and lesbian studies
available in English (to 1991), divided by topic, concludes the work.
Essential for teachers and students desiring a basic bibliography and for
libraries developing a core gay and lesbian studies collection. The
bibliography includes a few, but by no means core representation of
non-English studies.
The bibliography, one document, and six essays are additions to the first
edition (1986).
Title fully describes the work.
This is a compendium of 104 Nazi documents concerning the persecution of
homosexuals by the Nazis,1933 to 1945. The work is introduced by two essays,
"Persecution, 'Re-education' or 'Eradication' of Male Homosexuals
between 1933 and 1945" (Gunter Grau) and "The Position of
Lesbian Women in the Nazi Period" (Claudia Schoppmann), and is
divided into five parts: 1) Public Discrimination against Homosexual Men,
2) Tightening Up the Law from September 1935, 3) The Stepping Up of
Prosecutions from 1936, 4) Intensified Persecution after 1939,
5) Castration as an Instrument of Repression, and 6) Homosexual Men in
Concentration Camps. Each part is introduced by an explanatory essay.
Documentary sources, all original records, include, among many others,
Hitler, the Gestapo, Himmler, the Luftwaffe (Goring), the Reich Office for the
Combating of Homosexuality and Abortion, and notes of SS interrogations of
homosexual prisoners; and cover such themes as, registration of homosexual
men, blackmailing into voluntary castration, the situation of homosexuals
at Buchenwald, and the SS and the Police as 'the vanguard of the struggle to
eradicate homosexuality in the German Volk.
The appendix concludes with 1) Sources of the Illustrations, 2) Sources of
the Documents, and 3) Index of names, subjects, titles, organizations,
and offices.
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Historical Dictionary of the Gay Liberation Movement: Gay
Men and the Quest for Social Justice.
(in the POLITICS/LAW section)
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An exploration of gay and lesbian place and space in New York history
through identification and elucidation of 199 sites significant to GL
political, social, commercial, educational, and cultural history including
public institutions, businesses, churches, theaters, residences,
hang-outs, and sites associated with famous persons as diverse as
Alexander Hamilton, Federico Garcia Lorca, Willa Cather, and Ethel
Waters.
Divided into walking tours (not unlike the Michelin
guides) of nine areas: the West Village, Washington Square, the East
Village, Chelsea, Midtown, the Upper East Side, the Upper West Side,
Harlem, and the Battery. Each section provides a map of the sites,
a review commentary of the area under discussion, and site by site capsule
histories. Useful, clear and often fascinating information now and then
marred by presumptuous asides.
Numerous well-chosen site photographs enhance the work. A superb index to
sites, subjects, photographs, maps, and persons mentioned throughout
concludes the text.
An extensive, selected anthology of documents and
document excerpts "organized into six chronologically arranged
topical sections:" Part I, 'Trouble: 1566-1966,' contains documents
covering four hundred years of homosexual oppression and self-oppression,
records of this society's conflict with Gay people, and Gay people's
socially induced conflict with themselves. Part II focuses on the history
of the 'Treatment' and mistreatment of Lesbians and Gay men by
psychiatrists and psychologists, 1884-1974. Part III, 'Passing
Women: 1782-1920,' reprints accounts of women who dressed and worked
and lived as men- maintaining intimate relations with others of their
own sex. Part IV, 'Native Americans/Gay Americans: 1528-1976, 'presents
observations on various forms of male and female homosexuality among
the first inhabitants of this continent. Part V concerns 'Resistance'
to the oppression of homosexuals, 1859-1972, including individual
isolated acts, and the early history of the organized homosexual
emancipation movement in America. Finally, Part VI, 'Love,' presents
documents of intimate relations between people of the same sex,
1779-1932."
A lengthy introduction precedes each topical section, and a brief,
historical summary precedes each document. The extensive source and
explanatory references are arranged by topical section in the concluding
sections of the anthology, along with a lengthy, selected bibliography of
Major Texts for the Study of U.S. Lesbian and Gay History, arranged by
bibliographies, theoretical works, review essays, primary sources, and
secondary sources. A substantial index covers persons, organizations,
titles of special interest, and subjects.
Supplementary to the author's Gay American History [see that entry] this
anthology presents the documents in one chronological order, in two parts:
Part I- Early Colonial Exploration, Agriculture, and Commerce: The Age of
Sodomitical Sin, 1607-1740; Part II-The Modern United States: The
Invention of the Homosexual, 1880-1950.
Each part is prefaced by a lengthy introductory essay. Documents fully
cited with numerous explanatory references to the texts; bibliography,
and thorough index in the back matter. Informative introductory essay,
"General Introduction: Lesbian and Gay History - Theory and
Practice," reviews the changing issues raised and terminology used in
writings about gays.
Jim Kepner, whose personal collection formed the foundation of the
National Gay Archives (now the International Gay &
Lesbian Archives in Los Angeles) compiled this chronology on the basis of
years of note taking, bringing together every fragment of evidence he
discovered. Gay is to be understood in its broadest possible
applications. A nod to the constructionists notwithstanding, Kepner
chronologizes the gay and lesbian experience from the beginnings of human
history through the Summer of 1995.
By way of introduction he briefly mentions a few mythological and Biblical
accounts. The main body of the work is divided into 13 historical periods:
1) Our first 2,500 years (2090 B.C.-380 A.D.), 2) The Middle Ages
(390-1412), 3) The early Renaissance (1431-1499) and the beginning of the
Modern World (1502-1752), 4) The Age of Revolution (1753-1818), 5) Moving
toward a [gay] Movement (1819-1849), 6) The Uranian Movement (1850-1882),
7) First Open Movement (1883-1910), 8) The World at War (1911-1921),
9) The Twenties (1922-1933), 10) The Holocaust (1934-1949), 11) The
[beginning of] The American Movement (1950-1960), 12) The Movement
Redefined (1961-1973), and 13) New Directions Still (1974-1995).
The information is presented in a discursive, telegraphic style. Without a
table of contents, index, source citations, or bibliography, this is
rather a discourse of historical and cultural facts than a reference work
as ordinarily construed; however, any point within the text is an
excellent stimulus to further investigation, a research wake-up
call. This edition much augmented from the 1983 edition (79p.) in SuzStx
HQ 76.25 .K46 1983
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Lesbian and Gay Liberation in Canada: a Selected
Annotated Chronology, 1964-1975.
(in the POLITICS/LAW section)
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An excellent and inspiring guide to U. S. queer geography arranged by
region and state, this work describes with basic historical detail notable
sites relevant to queer history and culture. Sites include homes,
birthplaces; memorials, graves, cemeteries; collectives, communes,
retreats; bookshops, publishers, libraries, community centers, art
collections and works; festivals, marches, rallies; businesses,
restaurants, bars, gay hangouts; spiritual and natural sites.
Entries are frequently enhanced by insets variously providing related
biographical detail, quotations, and lists. Lesbian and lesbian-feminist
sites are especially well represented. Concludes with a useful
bibliography of queer history and biography; and an index to persons,
works, organizations and sites.
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Historical Dictionary of the Lesbian Liberation Movement:
Still the Rage
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Homosexuals Today, the first effort to provide an historical and
contemporary (1956) review of homosexual organizations and their
publications, is arranged geographically by country, the United States
with 3 chapters followed by chapters on France, Germany, Holland,
Scandinavia, Switzerland, and a chapter devoted to other countries
(Austria, Belgium, Italy) and Asia. The United States has chapters on the
Mattachine Society, and One, Inc., each detailing origins, purpose, key
persons involved, major events and actions, publications, and full text
documents, especially statements of beliefs, principles, and purpose. A
third chapter on the U. S. covers the then lesser known organizations.
Other chapters proceed in like manner, but with less detail. Information
on publications is valuable and usually includes dates, general content,
and purpose. A final summary lists organizations and serials by
country and gives membership and circulation figures as available.
The index including persons as author and topic, organizations,
publications, and a few places as topics makes the source a worthy
reference work as well as a concise historical review and collection or
primary documents. Among the many documents, librarians will especially
appreciate that describing the founding and activities of the first gay
library (One, Inc.). In conclusion the document states, "Finally, the
library as a special collection of literature on the subject of
homosexuality may well be one day ... the most important contribution of
One, Inc., to the homosexual problem."
A selection by activist scholars of 52 documents (1970-1972) drawn from
the alternative press reflecting the radical period of gay and lesbian
politics in the liberation spirit that pervaded American social movements
of the late 60s and early 70s, 'leftist,' confrontational, and demanding
of change.
This has become the classic collection of gay liberation documents
including such basic statements as The Radicalesbians' 'Woman-Identified
Woman,' and Carl Wittman's 'A Gay Manifesto,' which, however much
gay/lesbian politics has changed in complexity and diverstiy, remain
influential underpinnings of gay politics and social action.
The 2nd ed. (reprint) includes a foreword and new introduction that
reconsider the radical period from the present vantage point.
A chronology by year and day (from June, 1969, i.e., the Stonewall riots,
through December, 1990) of social, political, legal, cultural, and
popcultural events, actions, and reports related to the gay experience,
consciousness, and identity. Mainly U. S.
Popular treatment. Scope embraces entertaining trivia
and gossip along with serious concerns. Includes numerous quotations with
minimal source identification; and occasional photographs.
Concludes with index to personal names, groups, titles
(books, journals, films, songs...), events and subjects.
This sourcebook, the work of political scientists, is a well chosen
compendium of 169 documents related to homosexual/gay/lesbian/queer
theory, identity, culture, and politics in all its manifestations in
general chronological order from the 18th century to 1994.
Especially noteworthy are key passages excerpted from works of broader
scope, which if not selected and presented here, would be all but
inaccessible and unknown to the general reader, such as, "Of the
crime against nature" (from Montesquieu's The Spirit of Laws); and
contemporary writings appearing in unindexed newspapers, such as,
"The Homosexualization of Aids," in Gai-Pied Hebdo; and speech
transcriptions and pamphlets rarely held and even more rarely appearing in
national catalogs.
The editors seek world-wide coverage, although most documents are of
English, German, and French origin. Non-English documents are in English
translation. In six parts: 1) Enlightenment backgrounds and the French
Revolution (18th and early 19th centuries), 2) the emergence of modern
gay/lesbian identity and politics (1869-1949), 3) the homophile movement
(1950-1969), 4) gay liberation and lesbian-feminism (1969-1980s), 5)
politics of AIDS (1982-1994), and 6) the current situation
(1988-1994).
Documents of the recent periods include neither reports of religious
bodies nor influential writings of social/political leaders and pressure
groups opposed to gay-lesbian equality.
Source citations are not as scrupulous as would be desired from a
'sourcebook.' They sometimes lack page identification or date beyond year
which for newspapers and other serial articles is problematic. As it is,
citation information must sometimes be pieced together from information
preceding the document and that given in the copyright information
at the conclusion of the work. Nonetheless this work is an indispensable,
intelligent, intelligible and broad-spectrum selection of seminal
writings much enhanced by concise, contextualizing commentaries
throughout.
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Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History
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Surveys 1,000 of America's largest publicly held companies, high-profile
privately owned companies, large American corporations that are divisions
of foreign companies, and smaller companies known to have exceptionally
good or bad records on issues important to lesbians and gay men. Issues
include anti-discrimination policies, domestic partnership benefits,
marketing strategies, health insurance, charitable giving, diversity
training, and presence of a gay-lesbian employees group. Initial chapter
provides general tables of results, and 20 subsequent chapters provide
results by kind of company (aerospace, insurance, software...) with
discussion and analysis. Survey information supplemented by other
sources.
Work concludes with three appendices: Gay and Lesbian Employee Groups with
addresses, contact person and telephone number; and samples of the the two
surveys used. Index includes topics, companies, organizations, and
persons. No bibliography.
For additional information and related concerns, see Gay Workplace
Issues http:www.nyu.edu/pages/sls/gaywork/gaywkpl.html
A comprehensive, process-oriented guide complete with worksheets,
checklists, and charts to help achieve personal, investment, and
retirement goals with particular attention to the financial ramifications
the barrier to legal marriage has for U. S. gays and lesbians in
insurance, disability, health care, taxes, social security, estate
planning, and inheritance; also addresses problems that may arise from the
alleged youth orientation (of gay people) and its consequent failure to
plan, alienated attitudes toward established (straight) structures,
homophobic institutions, distance from family, and lack of support
groups.
Composed especially for gays and lesbians who wish to avoid pitfalls and
surmount obstacles, a practical map to the financial planning terrain.
This guide may be well used in conjunction with Curry's
A Legal Guide for Lesbian and Gay Couples.
Annual directory of Gay & Lesbian Business Association of Greater
Vancouver [British Columbia] members' gay-owned/gay friendly businesses and
non-profit organizations. By subject.
Consult also the GLBA
homepage. http://www.glba.org/glb_home.htm
Annual directory of the Greater Seattle Business Association members'
gay-owned/gay-friendly businesses and non-profit organizations. By
subject.
Consult also the GSBA homepage.
http://www.the-gsba.org
Popular and practical guide exploring gay-friendliness of various companies "...evaluated on four basic criteria: a written and enforced policy of non-discrimination inclusion of lesbian and gay issues within diversity training (if such training is given); recognition of a gay and lesbian employee group (an indicator of the comfort level among gay and lesbian employees); and the availability of benefits (and recognition) for same-sex domestic partners." Each company rated as "Excellent, Good or Trying." [trying=attempting, not exasperating]. U.S. only. Brief paragraph for each gives discursive explanation. Also includes several self-help and advisory essays of concern to being "out" in the workplace. Not definitive.
A compilation of curriculum materials selected from 1) Support Services
for Gay and Lesbian Youth (San Francisco Unified School District,
copyright Barbara Blinick), 2) The Toronto Board of Education [attrib.?],
and 3) The NYC Board of Educations's Multicultural Education Curriculum,
respectively.
The compilation consists of 1) four lesson plans covering 'homophobia and
heterosexism,' the 'holocaust,' 'lesbians, gay men and bisexuals in the
Harlem Renaissance,' and 'lesbian and gay organizing in the 1960s and
1970s, with each lesson plan including student objectives, teacher
background information, vocabulary, classroom procedures, and student
handouts, extension activities, evaluation activities, and list of
resources; and 2) seven case studies in which each lesson presents a
hypothetical event that illustrates an issue which the students attempt to
resolve, such as 'name-calling,' 'dating,' and 'coming out;' and 3) seven
units on the topic "Struggle for Equality: Lesbian & Gay
Community," including such lessons as 'Hidden Identities,' 'Civil
Rights,' and 'Domestic Partners,' each lesson including focus of learning
activity, background, major ideas, concepts, objectives, activities, and
worksheets.
A practical collection of materials and ideas for junior and high school
teachers developing classroom units on gay and lesbian subjects.
A both early and auspicious effort by the Human Rights Foundation to
develop a comprehensive secondary school curriculum concerned with
homosexuality, lesbians and gay men. Represents the cooperation of
teachers, counselors, sexologists, community leaders, and parents. The
purpose is "to help attain respect, safety, understanding, and
equality for lesbians and gay men."
Part I discusses the purpose and philosophical underpinnings of teaching
about homosexuality.
Part II is a series of 18 lesson plans, pracitical applications for the
classroom. Each lesson plan states its purpose, the directions for
conducting the class, and sometimes notes to the teacher, suggested
homework assignments, quizzes, and selected resources applicable to the
topic.
Part III consists of 11 chapters on myths and steroetypes in
question-answer and discussion format ranging from gender and identity
issues to religious, class, family, and legal issues.
Part IV (Resources) includes excerpts form world literature, a list of gay
or bisexual historical figures, a brief, annotated list of especially
recommended books, educational and community resources, and a a briefly
annotated bibliography of 140 sources useful to the gay and lesbian
studies curriculum.
Part V (Appendices) includes 1) excerpts from statements of major
corporations and professional and religious organizations, 2) the Final
Task Force Report on Homosexuality as a Social Issue- Finding Endorsed by
Division 9 of the American Psychological Association, a press release, APA
Annual Convention, 28 August 1981, and 3) a list of jurisdictions
(municipal, county, state/province) protecting the rights of lesbians and
gay men (January, 1983) and a list of states with no restrictions on adult
consensual sex acts.
Concludes with an index to topics.
The directory lists, by state, U. S. sources of funding available
specifically to lesbian, gay, and bisexual organizations; and
scholarships/fellowships available specifically to lesbian, gay, and
bisexual individuals. Each listing contains the source name, address,
contact person, phone number, fax number, e-mail address, funding
priorities (areas of interest), grant types (kind of support), limitations
(exclusions), geographic area applicable, application information,
and average grant amount.
Concludes with two indexes, one of all sources, the other of sources that
fund nationally (not limited to specific geographic areas within the U.
S.). Some sources fund internationally, but are not separately
indexed.
This source is also available on the web:
http://www.workinggroup.org
Click on Publications and Research, then click on Funders of Lesbian, Gay,
Bisexual and Transgender Programs.
For additional information see John Younger's (professor at Duke
University) website: Financial Aid for
LGBT Students and Studies at North American Universities.
http://www.duke.edu/web/jyounger/lgbfinaid.html
This resource establishes a recent track record of grants funding for
gay-and-lesbian and other minority non-profit organizations. Based on most
recent years, lists grants awarded to 161 gay and lesbian organizations,
$8,192,736 altogether.
The main body of the work lists by state the grant-awarding foundations,
each with a limitations (scope) statement, followed by list of
organizations receiving grants with the purpose of the grant and amount
awarded.
To determine which foundations have awarded grants to gay and lesbian
organziations, consult the subject index (keyed to the award by number)
under Gays/lesbians. Gays/lesbians is subdivided by:
arts/culture/humanities; civil rights; crime/courts/legal services;
education; health-general; health-specific diseases; housing/shelter;
human services-multipurpose; international affairs/development; mental
health/substance abuse; philanthropy/voluntarism; public
affairs/government; religion; social sciences; and youth development.
Other indexes: Recipient Index, Geographic Index (by U.S. state and
country), and a list of foundations with address, telephone number, fax,
e-mail, and website, as applicable, with limitations statement.
The front matter includes statistical tables and a list of Foundation
Center Cooperating Collections (those collections providing core
Foundation Center publications).
The Foundation Center's website,
http://www.fdncenter.org, has annotated links to the websites of over 200
foundations.
Margaret Cruikshank's anthology by lesbian academics and cultural workers
lay the groundwork for the then (1982) emergent field of lesbian studies
from a lesbian-feminist perspective.
The first section concerns the lesbian teacher/researcher experience in
academia, and the second, aspects of teaching/exploring lesbian themes in
the university classroom.
The third section is essentially a series of bibliographic essays
addressing various subject areas: black lesbians, history, biography,
literature, older lesbians, science, physical education and sport, and
love between women in prison. Essays typically discuss the basic sources
available with suggestions as to their curricular use. Of particular
strength from a bibliographic standpoint are J. R. Roberts' "Black
Lesbians before 1970," and Kathy Hickok's "Lesbian Images in
Women's Literature Anthologies," the latter providing substantial
annotations for each citation.
The appendix has nine separate syllabi from university courses on
lesbianism, and a 35-page core bibliography of books and articles useful
to the lesbian studies curriculum as projected in the work.
Results of 136 responses of the 170 member schools on gay/lesbian issues in law schools. Report includes: 1) survey form, 2) tabulation of results- g/l student organization?, course(s) on g/l legal issues?, anti-discrimination policy?, and placement policy?, 3) list of schools with g/l student organization, 4) list of schools with g/l issues course, 4) topics covered in g/l courses, 5) list of grounds impermissible for discrimination, 5) quotations from anti-discrimination policies.
The Safe Schools Coalition prepared this report and resource guide in
keeping with its mission to achieve equal opportunity for children of
diverse orientations and identities to learn in an environment of respect,
security, and freedom from anti-gay harassment and violence. In three
parts:
Part One consists of recommendations and strategies for schools concerned
with: 1) policies, 2) hiring, 3) training, 4) school libraries, 5) student
groups, 6) curriculum, 7/8) respect, 9) intervention, 10) reporting
harassment, 11) discipline, 12) needs of the targeted person, and 13)
needs of the school community.
Part two is a list of agencies and organizations arranged heirarchically
by area: national and international, regional (Northwest), statewide
(Washington), and local (within Washington); with directory (address,
contact, websites) and services (crisis support, education, training,
technical assitance provided.
Part three is devoted to resources for learning and teaching about gay,
lesbian, bisexual and transgender issues and includes briefly annotated
websites, bibliographies, books, booklets and reports, periodicals,
curricula, curriculum supplements, hate crime information cards, posters,
traveling photo exhibits, traveling theater troupes, and videos.
This is a highly practical and action/response-oriented guide for
community leaders, administrators, teachers, counselors, librarians, and
parents concerned about the quality of education and the security of their
glbt students/children and their friends. With the exception of the
regional and local directory section, this reference source is of general
use and value everywhere.
The revised and expanded edition (1999),
http://www.safeschools-wa.org/rg99cont.html, is available online.
The Glossary and Practical Guides sections are completely new to the
revised and expanded edition. The practical guides for administrators,
educators, families, and students concern the handling, intervening,
preventing, and surviving of anti-gay harassment. Other sections are
revised and expanded.
Student evaluations (1,464) derived from gay student groups (189 colleges
and universities) registered with the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.
The data is based solely on student responses to a 65-question Survey
Questionnaire.
The main body of the work, arranged alphbetically by institution name,
discursively covers the data: personal data (status/lifestyle); and
personal perceptions/knowledge of the gay climate; existence of social
and policy groups; anti-discrimination policy; counseling, health and
security services; curriculum (gay/lesbian content) available; and general
recommendation. Introductory essay reviews general environment of gay
students in higher education; followed by "The Gay, Lesbian, and
Bisexual and Student Profile," a general review of the survey
data.
Concludes with: "Appendix: Student Profiles," that lists data
(percentage of responses) in 5 sections- Demographic Information,
Victimization, Health Issues, Other Factors, and Recommendations; the
Survey Questionnaire; and Index of Institutions. University of Washington
not included.
For additional information see John Younger's (professor at Duke
University) website:
LGB Programs at North American Universities.
http://www.duke.edu/web/jyounger/lgbprogs.html
Section XIII: "Balancing Acts: America's Gay and Lesbian Identities," pp. 624-655. The section devoted to gays and lesbians has entries for 8 authors: Lisa Alther, Rita Mae Brown, Larry Kramer, David Leavitt,Audre Lorde, Armistead Maupin, Paul Monette, and Edmund White. Each 4 to 5 page entry includes a list of principal works; and discursive reviews of other literary forms the author employs, achievements, biography, and analysis of the literary works; and a bibliography of additional (to those already cited among the principal works) writings; and a brief bibliography of criticism, reviews and interviews. Other gay authors are examined in other sections as exponents of other identities, such as James Baldwin (African American) and Tennessee Williams (Southern), and the entries for them do not explore gay aspects of their lives or works.
Explores same-sex eroticism, transgenderism, and transvestism in all its
spiritual manifestations, world-wide in ancient and modern times,
especially focusing on myths, legends, cosmologies, sacred writings,
spiritual movements and religions with full attention to symbols,
concepts, instruments, rituals, persons (actual and mythic) and spirits.
Contemporary expressions of religious, literary and artistic affirmation
of queer, lesbian, and gay male spirituality are also a significant
component of this encyclopedia; indeed, the reclamation of the spiritual
past by the queer world is not only a major theme, but the raison d'etre of
the work.
The encylopedia begins with seventeen brief (1 to 5 pages)essays, each
devoted to a spiritual tradition (Buddhism, Goddess Reverence,
Mesoamerican and South American, Radical Faeries, among others); and is
followed by traditional encyclopedic entries in alphabetical order. The
articles are unsigned and conclude with no supportive bibliography,
although sometimes titles (with author and date) occur within the body of
the entry. The work concludes with a 15 page bibliography (not
thematically subdivided or keyed to the entries) that includes journal
articles, essays in books, and books, mostly English, but with some
important French, German, and Spanish citations as well; and
with a thematic index (46 broad themes), each theme (African-Diasporic
Traditions; Guardians and Protectors), New Age, Sites, and Women's
Liberation and Spirituality, ...) with a list of entries pertaining.
Introductory essay examines the concept "gay literature." 57 entries on 20th century, gay, male, American authors (Capote, Holleran, Monette...) in alphabetical order. Not comprehensive coverage. Includes critically acclaimed authors. Each entry includes biography; a discussion of major works and themes, and of the critical reception. Selected bibliography, primary and secondary with each author. Work concludes with a directory of small presses and journals that regularly publish works of gay fiction.
Introductory essay reviews construction of lesbian identities in American
literature throughout the last century; and raises historical, political
and social issues in the composition, interpretation and reception of
lesbian writings. 100 entries on contemporary, lesbian, American authors
(Allison, Newman, Rich...) in alphabetical order. Not comprehensive
coverage. Each entry includes biography; a discussion of major works and
themes, and of the critical reception. Selected bibliography, primary and
secondary with each author.
Work concludes with Appendix A: "Publishers of Lesbian Writers,"
and Appendix B: "Selected Periodicals and Journals of Interest to
Readers of Lesbian Writings," and a "Bibliography: Selected
Nonfiction on Lesbian Issues;" and an index of authors and titles
discussed or mentioned.
Latin American writers (belles-lettres) include not
only Latin Americans writing in Spanish and Portuguese, but in other
languages as well, and U. S. Latinos writing in English, such as Cherrie
Moraga and John Rechy. Gay and lesbian is broadly understood to include
one or all of the following: gay professed authors, authors of gay
and lesbian themes, and authors whose works are expressive of gay
sensibility. The work covering 130 authors is a joint effort of 60
scholars; articles are signed, and scholars identified at the end of the
book.
The lengthy introduction (Lillian Manzor-Coats) is invaluable as it
clarifies and distinguishes gender constructions and representations,
homosexuality, gay and lesbian as a political category, and writing and
homosexuality in Latin America, each sufficiently distinct from Anglo
views as to be essential to appreciating the text, especially,
by non-Latin American readers.
Entries are alphabetical by author, and center on the biographical facts
and realities significant to the development of gay and lesbian writings
and consequently, important for the interpretation of those writings.
Major aspects of the relevant works are discussed and placed within the
context of the biography, the literary culture and the times.
Each entry concludes with a bibliography of works and of criticism. The
text is followed by a brief, but essential bibliography on homosexuality
in Latin America, and an index to authors and persons cited in the
text; works are indexed under authors.
An encyclopedia of gay and lesbian literary history by means of more than
100 biographies (5 pages each in length) of literary figures, and several
essays: "Die Antike," "Autoren in Schwarzafrika," "Autorinnen in
Schwarzafrika," and "Das Mittelalter" (about 10 pages each in length); in
one alphabetical order.
Selection of authors based on their significance to gay and lesbian
readers, their sensibility and literary history, more than on the explicit
content of their works; consequently, Hans Christian Andersen and
Shakespeare have entries along with Forster and Stein. Unique also for
its inclusion of many authors, such as Mireille Best, Michelle Cliff, and
Witold Gombrowicz, not included in other GL biographical sources.
Each author's life is examined in terms of formative experiences,
intellectual development, and the literary, identity, and literary
contexts in which they thrived; indeed some are contextualized to the
extent that the entry itself reflects this direction, such as "Nadescha
Durowa und Russland." Each entry has a small photograph and concludes with
source references.
By scholars, identified in the back matter. Concludes with an index to
persons mentioned in the text.
Two introductory essays grapple respectively with the concept of
gay/lesbian literary history, and the emancipation of lesbian literature
into the mainstream of literary history.
Biographies (about 5-pages each) of 45 authors (Larry Kramer, Audre Lorde, Armistead Maupin...) mainly American and twentieth-century. Bios focus on formative experience, gay thematic material explored in the writings, and critical response. Each entry includes: photograph; lists of significant writings; partnerships; career events; awards; and excerpt (about 5 pages) from a representative work. The work concludes with source citations used, including, as applicable: footnotes (to excerpts), manuscript collections, biographies, interviews, bibliography, and secondary criticism. Index covers authors and works named.
World-wide coverage, includes critical essays on major gay and lesbian
writers in world literature (Colette, Yukio Mishima, Arthur Rimbaud...),
overviews of national or ethnic literatures (African-American Literature,
South Asian Literatures, Greek Literature...); of topics, groups, and
movements (Amazons, Bloomsbury, Romantic Friendship...); of genres
(Mystery, Fiction, Poetry, Elegy...); and of influential writers in
neighboring fields (Foucault & Plato- philosophy, Shilts-
journalism)
All entries are signed. Contributors are identified in the Notes
on Contributors. Thorough index to entries and writers includes
numerous cross-references. No entries for written works other
than the Bible which is included due to its exceptional influence
on literature and views concerning sexuality.
Gay & Lesbian Literature. v.2.
Eds. Tom Pendergast & Sara Pendergast.
Detroit: St. James Press, 1998.
SuzRef PN 56 .H57 G362 1998
Introductory essays to gay male literature, and to
lesbian literature precede the main body of the work [v.1], a dictionary
arrangement by author. Covers more than 200 contemporary (none deceased
before 1900) authors chosen according to "the gay and lesbian
content of their works, and not upon sexual identity." International
scope with, however, about 85% English-language authors; includes
those in the social sciences, history and philosophy as well as
belles-lettres.
Each author entry includes 1) resume-type information (life, education,
career facts), list of awards, and sometimes
author or agent address; 2) bibliography of primary works by
genre; 3) bibliography of secondary works: adaptations,
manuscript locations, biographical sources, interviews, bibliography,
critical sources, and sometimes author's comments on own works;
and 4) signed critical essay emphasizing the author's importance
to literature generally, and to the gay and lesbian world.
Work concludes with list of advisors and contributors,
briefly identified by position held, major activity or publications,
and essays contributed; and several indexes: 1) general
index of authors with cross-references from pseudonyms, 2) nationality
index (authors by country of origin or citizenship), 3) gender index;
and 4) general subject and genre index; and lists of various gay
and lesbian literary awards by award, year, genre, title of awarded work,
and award recipient; and name list of about 800 additional (no entry in
body or work) authors of gay and lesbian literature; and a bibliography
by genre of selected anthologies and critical studies.
Volume 2, which appeared in 1998, follows the same pattern as the initial
volume, includes about 200 more authors, updates the awards and
bibliography, and indexes both volumes.
Two essays, "Outing and Identity" (on gay males) by Jim Marks,
and "Lesbian Writing in the Golden Age, [i.e., the current period]"
by Loralee Macpike introduce v.2.
This sourcebook examines four groups of American women playwrights: Afro-,
Asian-, Latina- and Lesbian-Americans. An introductory essay, "The
Challenge of Diversity," is followed by four essays, one for each
group. "Lesbian Playwrights: Diverse Interests, Identities, and
Styles" (pp.27-33) by Jill Dolan discusses the cultural/political
setting in which lesbian playwrights have thrived and examines each in
turn; addresses the salient artistic and social features of the work, and
especially notes aspects of role, identity, and sexual politics.
The main body of the book consists of entries for all the playwrights in
one alphabetical order. Each playwright entry includes a biography (1/2 to
1 page), a description of the plays (1/2 to 1 page), a selected production
history (title, theater, city, date), awards, and concludes with a
bibliography of the descriptive and critical response.
Lesbian playwrights included are: Martha Boesing, Clare Coss, Judy Grahn,
Jane Chambers, Paula Vogel, Julie Jensen, Madeline Olnek, Claire Chafee,
Maria Irene Fornes, Joan Schenkar, Cherrie Moraga, Tina Landau, Holly Hughes,
Carmelita Tropicana (a performer-writer), Five Lesbian Brothers (a group
of performers and writers), Susan Miller, Terry Galloway, Dolores Prida,
and Janis Astor del Valle.
Introduction reviews historical trends in the portrayal of gay and lesbian
characters and themes in the mystery novel; and the specialized gay and
lesbian publishing houses that pioneered those novels. Author entries vary
in inclusion of biographical information and concentrate on the novels
with brief evaluative commentary and descriptions of the major aspects of
works without gay content. Also interspersed are several subject entries
(AIDS, Gays/Lesbians in the Military, Theatrical Backgrounds...)
cross-referenced to author entries.
Concludes with list of "Specialist Publishers of Gay and Lesbian
Fiction," a brief bibliography of secondary studies on the genre; and
two indexes: an index to gay and lesbian characters, and index by novel
title.
In dictionary order, Courouve explores etymology, use and meaning of over
70 French terms and phrases for homosexuals and aspects of homosexuality.
Examples of usage are quoted in historical sequence and cited. The title
notwithstanding, there are also terms drawn from female homosexuality,
such as "lesbien." The commentary for a particular term
sometimes includes synonyms or closely related terms, not themselves
discussed as primary entries. Numerous footnotes enhance the value of the
text with additional comment, explanation, and historical information. In
French. Introduction discusses the nature and development
of vocabulary concerning homosexuality.
Appendices include reprints of 5 documents (relevant to the vocabulary) of
the 17th, 18th, and early 19th centuries; and an index of terms used by
Proust with source locations in the Clarac-Ferre edition and for
La Prisonniere, the Milly edition.
Concludes with a reference bibliography and an index of authors and
persons named in the text. Since many of the terms and phrases have
derivations from and uses influenced by other languages, such as German
and Greek, this source will frequently have value for researching the
homosexual vocabulary of other languages as well.
A dictionary of more than 600 English terms and expressions drawn from
popular, scientific (medical, theological, legal), current, and
historical (especially classical and medieval) usage "pertaining to
homosexual behavior and its interpretation," "to examine words
as survivors of past struggles to define a major sector of human
experience."
Entries are discursive, often interpretive, and at times downright
opinionated, more than the data provided (or not) would allow, e.g., under
'rimming,' "...it is fortunate that...[such] practices..are relatively
uncommon," or under, 'opera,' "...Whitman had...fanatical
veneration for opera, which influenced the musical cadences and structuring of
Leaves of Grass." The reader may stumble over Dynes' tendency to
editorialize and pontificate, but will find the terms, definitions, and
historical contexts useful, especially as leads to further research.
Some entries, such as 'Night of the Long Knives' or 'Marxism and
Homosexuality,' are more encyclopedic in nature and discuss events and
ideas, rather than language derivations, meanings, and usage as such.
Although a useful, and certainly not-to-be-overlooked bibliography
concludes the work, much information within entries is not cited, or cited
in a general way, insufficient for the reader who wishes to go directly to
the source. Nevertheless, a fascinating and upfront source for the general
user and a beginning point for scholars of language pertaining to
homosexuality.
Essentially a discursive work examining sources and developments of gay concepts, terminology and myth; and of concepts of gay. Cross-cultural contexts. Concludes with glossary; an index to names and terminology (faggot, gay, Boston marriage) defined in the text gives it significant reference value.
A slim dictionary of gay slang currently popular in the American gay male subculture. Terms are very briefly defined; often with cross references to synonymous or closely-related terms. Most terms refer to genitalia, sex practices and sex preferences; others refer to groups within the gay subculture, aspects of being gay, and gay venues. Entries for standard English terms with cross references to gay slang terms provide an unusual and useful aspect of this dictionary. No examples of usage; no sources; no etymologies.
An academic work in German comparing and contrasting the Russian vocabulary of the argot used by and about male homosexuals in everyday life with that used in the all-male settings of prison and military life. The glossary, which constitutes the centerpiece of the work, is, accordingly, two glossaries plus an index to all terms in both glossaries and relevant terms in discursive parts of the study; and the list in reverse (by end of word) order. Glossary terms are keyed to the source bibliography and have notes defining the speaker, the diction level or a more refined meaning; and cross-references to other parts of the work. The glossary is alphabetical under various thematic areas: sex organs, sex acts, aspects of the individual, and of homosexual life, each area further subdivided. The discursive matter discusses the vocabulary, the circumstances of the users, the methodology of the study, the sources- pre-existing studies and self-conducted interviews, the etymology (Slavic and other language derivations), word formation, semantic aspects, and the interpretation of the findings. Among the appendices is a chronology of the first articles on homosexuality and homosexuality and aids in the heterosexual Russian print media (1987-1992), and of the first Russian homosexual journals, 1989-1992.
An ambitious, non-academic dictionary of gay, chiefly 1950's and 1960's
American slang, largely drawn from speech. Some effort to indicate locale
and user group; usually no etymology; sources not cited. Includes numerous
phrases and fuller expressions.
Entries tend to clarify meaning through examples of usage and to include
related terms and expressions. Some lengthy entries (camp, armed forces,
prison terminology...) provide a story context in which the slang occurs.
The index includes all the main entry terms and phrases as well as those
which occur only within the main entries as part of the definitions or
among the related terms; hence, it is often necessary to use the index to
find a term or phrase. Reprinted by Putnam in 1979 under the title: Gay
Talk.