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Professors Blanche Wiesen Cook, Ken Sherrill, Alisa Solomon

I. The Historical Denial of Gay & Lesbian Experience

A. Our Closeted Culture: From The Captive to Pee Wee Herman

  • Eduard Boudet, The Captive
  • Deborah Bright, "Dream Girls," in Stolen Glances.
  • Kaier Curtin, "We Can Always Call Them Bulgarians": The emergence of lesbians and gay men on the American stage Alyson Press.
  • Essex Hemphill, "In Living Color: Toms, Coons, Mammies, Faggots, and Bucks," in Creekmur & Doty, eds., Out In Culture
  • Patricia Highsmith, Price of Salt, Naiad.
  • Caffney Kelly, ed. Forbidden Subjects: Self-Portraits by Lesbian Artists (N. Vancouver, Gallerie, 1992)
  • Wayne Kostenbaum, The Queen's Throat: Opera, Homosexuality and the Mystery of Desire (Poseidon, 1993).
  • Bruce LaBruce, "Pee Wee Herman: The Homosexual Subtext," in Out in Culture.
  • Judith Mayne, Directed by Dorothy Arzner (Indiana UP, 1994)
  • D. A. Miller, "Anal Rope," in Inside/Out (see also the section on Hitchcock in Out in Culture)
  • Vito Russo, The Celluloid Closet, 2d ed. (Harper & Row 1987)
  • Suzanna Danuta Walters, "As Her Hand Crept Slowly Up Her Thigh: Ann Bannon & the Politics of Pulp," Social Text 23 (1989) 83-101
  • Andrea Weiss, Vampires & Violets: Lesbians in Film (Penguin, 1992)

B. Straightening the Story: Public & Political Figures, the Visible and Veiled Record

  • Mary Lynn Broe, ed., Silence & Power: A Reevaluation of Djuna Barnes (Southern Illinois UP, 1991)
  • C. Carr, "Outing," Village Voice
  • Blanche Wiesen Cook, Eleanor Roosevelt (Viking, 1994)
  • ___________________, "Female Support Networks and Political Activism," Chrysalis (Autumn 1977); reprinted in Linda Kerber & Jane DeHart, eds., Women's America (Oxford, 1995).
  • ___________________, "Women Alone Stir My Imagination: Lesbianism in the Cultural Tradition," Signs (Summer 1979).
  • ___________________, "The Historical Denial of Lesbianism: A Review Essay," Radical History Review #20, (Spring/Summer 1979).
  • ___________________, "Outing History: A Biographical Review Essay," Out Magazine (Feb/March 1994).
  • Larry Gross, Contested Closets: The Politics & Ethics of Outing (U. Minnesota, 1993)
  • Karla Jay, The Amazon & The Page: Natalie Clifford Barney & Rene Vivien (Indiana, 1988)
  • Richard Meyer, "Rock Hudson's Body," in Inside/Out.
  • Michelangelo Signorile, Chapters on Outing in Queer in America: Sex, the Media, and the Closets of Power (Random House, 1993)
  • Diane Souhami, Gertrude & Alice (Pandora, 1991)

C. Gays in the Military: Freedom vs Repression, and the Crisis of Citizenship

  • Able v. The U.S.A., U.S. Court of Appeals 2nd Circuit 1995 1/3/95 Docket No. 94-6181,1995 U.S. App. LEXIS 109. Call the opportunity to rebut the presumption "an ignis fatuus." (QRD)
  • Alan Berube, Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in WWII (Free Press, 1990)
  • Margarethe Cammermeyer v. Les Aspin No. C92-9422 U.S. Dist. Ct., Western District of Washington, Seattle Div. 850 F. Supp. 910 (QRD).
  • Martin Duberman, "The Case of the Gay Sergeant," in Duberman, About Time.
  • Kate Dyer, ed., Gays in Uniform: The Pentagon's Secret Reports, (Alyson, 1990). "Homosexuals in the Military: A Special Report," New York Times, April 10, 1990.
  • Mary Ann Humphrey, My Country, My Right to Serve (Harper Collins, 1990)
  • Andrew Kopkind, "The Boys in the Barracks," in Lavendar Culture
  • Meinhold v. U.S. DoD No 93-56354 U.S. Ct. of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, 1994 U.S. App. Lexis 23705 (QRD).
  • National Defense Research Instituted (RAND), Sexual Orientation and U.S. Military Policy (MR-323-OSD) (1993) [Exec Summ, QRD]
  • Randy Shilts, Conduct Unbecoming: Gays & Lesbians in the US Military (St Martins, 1993)
  • Alisa Solomon, two op-eds: "Ban Straights," Newsday, 1/29/93; "An Army of Others: Why the Gay Ban Makes the Man," Village Voice, 2/9/93.
  • Steffan v. Aspin No. 91-5409 U.S. Court of Appeals, Nov 16, 1993 (QRD). "America's hallmark has been to judge people by what they do, not by who they are," overturned in: Steffan v. Perry U.S. Court of Appeals Dc1994 U.S. App Lexis 33045 (QRD). Francis Wilkinson, "The Gay Cadet," Village Voice, March 13, 1990.
  • Wolinsky & Sherrill, eds., Gays And the Military (Princeton UP, 1993) (Read especially: introductory essay, the briefs, affidativits of Dr. Rankin and Kate Dyer, Judge Gasch's decision.)

II. CIVIL RIGHTS / GAY RIGHTS / HUMAN RIGHTS

A. Activists and Agitators / The "Movement"

  • Barry D. Adam, The Rise of a Gay & Lesbian Movement (Twayne Publishers, 1987)
  • Margaret Cruikshank, The Gay and Lesbian Liberation Movement (Routledge, 1992)
  • Natasha Gray, "Bored with the Boys: Cracks in the Queer Coalition," NYQ, April 26, 1992
  • Andrew Kopkind, ed. "A Queer Nation," The Nation, 5 July 1993.
  • Eric Marcus, Making History: The Struggle for Gay & Lesbian Equal Rights, 1945-1990, An Oral History (Harper Collins 1992)
  • Toby Marotta, The Politics of Homosexuality: How lesbians and gay men have made themselves a political and social force in modern America (Houghton Miflin, 1981).
  • Michael Nava & Robert Dawidoff, Created Equal: Why Gay Rights Matter to America (St. Martin's, 1994)
  • Jack Onge, The Gay Liberation Movement (Alliance Press, 1971)
  • Len Richmond & Gary Nogura, The Gay Liberation Book (Ramparts 1973)
  • Jeffrey Schmalz, "Gay Politics Goes Mainstream," New York Times, Oct. 11, 1992.
  • Ken Sherrill, "Half Empty: Gay Power and Gay Powerlessness in American Politics," 1991 affidavit.
  • ____________, "Leaders in the Gay Activist Movement: The Problem of Finding the Followers," paper presented at the 1973 meetings of the American Political Science Association. Donn Teal, The Gay Militants (New York: Stein & Day, 1971).

B. Propaganda / Political Theater, Performance, and Writing
Mainstream Representation vs. Representing Ourselves

  • Dennis Altman, Power and Community: Organizational and Cultural Responses to AIDS (London; Bristol, PA: Taylor & Francis, 1994).
  • Bad Object Choices, How Do I Look? Queer Film and Video (Bay Press, 1991)
  • A. Block, "An Early Frost: The Story Behind NBC's AIDS Drama," Advocate, Nov. 26, 1985: 43-47.
  • T. Boffin & J. Fraser, Stolen Glances: Lesbians Take Photographs (Pandora/Harper Collins, 1991)
  • Stuart Byron, "The Closet Syndrome," in Out of the Closets
  • Crimp & Rolston, AIDS Demo/Graphics
  • DYKE TV materials
  • EXTRA! Newsletter of Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting. Special issue: "Confronting Homophbia: Gays & Lesbians and the Media."
  • Larry Gross, "The Ethics of (Mis)representation," in Image Ethics: The Moral Rights of Subjects in Photographs, Film and Television, L. Gross et. al., eds (Oxford, 1988).
  • Larry Gross, "Sexual Minorities in the Mass Media," in Remote Control, E. Seiter, et. al., eds (Routledge, 1989).
  • I Hate Straights broadsheet
  • Larry Kramer, The Normal Heart
  • Tony Kushner, Angels in America (TCG, 1993/4)/
  • Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider (Crossing Press, 1984)
  • Manifestos--last section of Out of the Closets
  • Media Image Coalition of Minorities and Women Report: "Diversity on Prime Time Television."
  • "New Queer Cinema" Sight and Sound supplement, Sept. 1992 (Essays by B. Ruby Rich, Derek Jarman, Pratibha Parmar, Isaac Julien Constantine Giannaris, Seun Okewole, Amy Taubin, Cherry Smith).
  • R. J. Ringer, ed., Queer Words, Queer Images: Communication and the Construction of Homosexuality (NYU Press, 1994).
  • Arlene Stein, "Androgyny Goes Pop: But is it Lesbian Music?" in Sisters, Sexperts, Queers
  • Anthony Thomas, "The House the Kids Built: The Gay Black Imprint on American Dance Music," in Out in Culture.

C. The Role of Law/ The Contours of Struggle--anti-gay organizing; gay-bashing

  • Baehr v. Lewin No. 15689 Supreme Court of Hawaii, 5/5/93 (on marriage.) (QRD).
  • Dorothee Benz, "The Politics of Backlash: State AntiGay Initiatives and Civil Rights in the Post-Reagan Era."
  • John Boswell, affidavit in Sailors and Sodomites
  • Bowers v. Hardwick 478 US 186; 1065 S. Ct. 841 92L.Ed., 2nd 140, 54 U.S.L.W.4919 (QRD).
  • Claudia Brenner & Hanna Ashley, Eight Bullets: One Woman's Story of Surviving Anti-Gay Violence (Firebrand, 1995)
  • Gary David Comstock, Violence Against Lesbians and Gay Men (Columbia UP, 1991).
  • Equality Foundation of Greater Cincinatti, Inc. v. the City of Cincinatti 1994 District Court, Lexis 11444 Aug 9, 1994. Pay particular attention to Judge Spiegel's findings of fact. QRD.
  • Evans v. Romber State Supreme Court briefs, Trial Ct ruling 12/16/93 and State Supreme Court ruling 10/16/94 (QRD).
  • Janet E. Halley, "The Politics of the Closet: Towards Equal Protection for Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Identity," UCLA Law Review, vol. 36:91
  • Gregory Herek, affidavit in Sailors and Sodomites
  • Nan Hunter, "Marriage, Law, and Gender: A Feminist Inquiry," Law and Sexuality: A Review of Lesbian and Gay Legal Issues, Summer 1991.
  • Nan Hunter & Nancy Polikoff, "Custody rights of Lesbian Mothers: Legal Theory & Litigation Strategy," Buffalo Law Review 25, 1976
  • Hurley v. Irish-American Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Group of Boston 63 U.S.L.W. 4625 (1995) (QRD).
  • Kerry Lobel, Naming the Violence: Speaking Out About Lesbian Battering (Seal Press, 1986).
  • Richard Mohr, Gay/Justice: A Study of Ethics, Society, Law (Columbia UP, 1988)
  • Cindy Patton, "Tremble Hetero Swine," in Fear of a Queer Planet.
  • People for the American Way, "Hostile Climate: A State-by-State Report on Anti-Gay Activity."
  • Ruthann Robson, Lesbian (Out)Law: Survival Under the Rule of Law (Firebrand, 1993)
  • William Rubenstein, Lesbians, Gay Men, & the Law (New Press 1993)
  • Ken Sherrill, "Homosexuality and Civil Liberty."
  • Alisa Solomon, "The Eternal Queer: In the Symbolic Landscape of Homophobia, We are the Jews," Village Voice, 4/27/93.
  • Kendall Thomas, "Beyond the Privacy Principle," Columbia Law Review, vol. 92, no. 6 (Oct. 1992) *U.S. Court of Appeals Rulings Nos. 94-3973, 94-4280, 94-3855, U.S. Ct. of App., 6th Circuit, 5/12/95 (On Cincinatti.) (QRD).
  • News clippings on anti-gay referenda in Oregon, Colorado, Maine; texts of city and state-wide referenda.

III. ALTERNATIVE CULTURES / COUNTER CULTURES
VISIONS OF COMMUNITY UTOPIA / REVOLUTION

A. Families: Unchosen and Chosen

  • JEB (Joan E. Biren), Making A Way (photos of lesbian institutions and support structures) (Glad Hag Books, 1987).
  • Lilian Faderman, Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women (Morrow, 1981)
  • "Gay Marriage: A Must or A Bust?" (Debate between Thomas Stoddard and Paula Ettelbrick) Out/Look, Fall 1989
  • Richard Goldstein, "The Gay Family," The Village Voice, July 1, 1986.
  • Manifestos on Lesbian Separatism, First section (and most of the rest of) For Lesbians Only: A Separatist Anthology, Sarah Lucia Hoagland & Julia Penelope, eds. (Only Women Press, 1988).
  • Paul Monette, Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story (Harcourt 1992)
  • Politics of the Heart: Lesbian Parenting (Firebrand, 1987).
  • Esther Rothblum & Kathleen Brehony, Boston Marriages: Romantic But Asexual Relationships Among Contemporary Lesbians (Amherst: U Mass Press, 1993)
  • Catherine Saalfield, "Lesbian Marriage... (K)Not!" in Sisters Sexperts, Queers
  • Eve Kosofsky Sedgewick, "How to Bring Your Kids Up Gay," in Fear of a Queer Planet
  • Andrew Sinclair, "A Conservative Case for Gay Marriage," The New Republic Aug. 28, 1989.
  • Kath Weston, Families We Choose: Lesbians, Gays, Kinship (Columbia UP, 1991)

B. Friendship Networks and Community Building
The Construction of the "Gay Market"

  • Michael Bronski, "Culture Clash: Reform or Revolution? The Challenge of Creating a Gay Sensibility," The Advocate March 5, 1985 (excerpt from Bronski book).
  • Jane Chambers, Last Summer at Bluefish Cove
  • Danae Clark, "Commodity Lesbianism," in Out in Culture.
  • *Cathy Cohen, "Power, Resistance and Marginalization: Two Communities Respond to AIDS."
  • Douglas Crimp, "Right On, Girlfriend!," in Fear of a Queer Planet.
  • John D'Emilio, "Capitalism and Gay Identity," in Snitow et. al., Powers of Desire
  • Lilian Faderman, Odd Girls & Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in 20th C America (Penguin, 1994)
  • Essex Hemphill, ed., Brother to Brother: New Writings by Black Gay Men (Alyson, 1991).
  • Human Rights Campaign Fund, "The Limited Influence of Gay Wealth."
  • E. Kennedy & M. Davis, Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community (Routledge, 1993)
  • Peter Nardi, "The Politics of Gay Men's Friendships," Men's Lives 2nd ed. 1992, Kimmel & Messner, eds.
  • Joan Nestle, The Persistent Desire: A Femme/Butch Reader (Alyson 1992)
  • Esther Newton, Cherry Grove, Fire Island (Beacon, 1993)
  • Ruth L. Schwartz, "New Alliances, Strange Bedfellows: Lesbians, Gay Men, and AIDS," in Sisters, Sexperts, Queers
  • Lynn Shapiro, "The Growing Business Behind Women's Music," Lavendar Culture
  • Sherrill, Ken, "The Limited Power of Gay Wealth," in Sailors and Sodomites.
  • "A Sharper View of Gay Consumers," New York Times, June 9, 1994 The Shocking Gray Catalogue

C. Acting Up: Revolutionaries and Utopians

  • ACT UP, reports in Outweek seriatim; Kramer's Report from the Holocaust, 1989.
  • Jeffner Allen, ed. Lesbian Philosophies & Cultures (SUNY 1990)
  • Dorothy Allison, Skin: Talking About Sex, Class & Literature (Firebrand, 1994)
  • S. Bryn Austin with Pam Gregg, "A Freak Among Freaks: The 'Zine Scene," in Sisters, Sexperts, Queers "Becoming a Spectacle: Lesbian & Gay Politics & Culture in the 90s" Radical America, entire issue, vol. 24, no. 4, April 1993.
  • Michael Cunningham, "If You're Queer and You're Not Angry in 1992, You're Not Paying Attention," Mother Jones May/June 1992.
  • Cheryl Clarke, Living as a Lesbian (1986)
  • Barbara Deming, Prisons That Could Not Hold (Univ. Georgia, 1995)
  • Barbara Grier & Coletta Reid, Lesbian Lives: Biographies of Women from The Ladder (Baltimore: Diana Press, 1976)
  • Tony Kushner, "A Socialism of the Skin," The Nation Lesbian Avengers materials
  • "Lesbian Culture," WIN (entire issue) June 26, 1975
  • Charles Ludlam, "Manifesto: Ridiculous Theater, Scourge of Human Folly," and Bluebeard in The Complete Plays (Harper & Row, 1989)
  • Jane Meyerding, ed., We Are All Part of One Another: A Barbara Deming Reader (New Society, 1984)
  • Joan Nestle, A Restricted Country (Firebrand, 1987)
  • Rachel Pepper, "Into the Woods," Outweek 64 (Sept. 19, 1990): 36- 41 (on the Michigan Women's Music Festival). Minnie Bruce Pratt, Rebellion: Essays 1980-91 (Firebrand, 1991)
  • Catherine Saalfield & Ray Navarro, "Shocking Pink Praxis: Race and Gender on the ACT UP Frontlines," in Inside/Out
  • Alisa Solomon, "The WOW Cafe: An Oral History," The Drama Review vol. 29, no. 1, Spring 1985: 92-101.
  • Guy Trebay, "In Your Face," (the birth of Queer Nation), Village Voice, Aug. 14, 1990.
  • David Wojnarowicz, Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration, (Vintage, 1991)

BACKGROUND & ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

  • Henry Abelove, Michele Aina Barale, & David Halperin, eds., The Lesbian & Gay Studies Reader (Routledge, 1993).
  • Dennis Altman, Coming Out in the Seventies: Selections from the First Edition (Alyson, 1981).
  • Gloria Anzaldua, et. al., eds., Theorizing Lesbian Experience, Signs, Speical Issue, 1993.
  • Burce Bawer, A Place at the Table: The Gay Individual in American Society (Poseidon, 1993).
  • David Bergman, ed., Camp Grounds: Style and Homosexuality (Univ. Mass Press, 1993.)
  • P. Brett, E. Wood, & G. Thomas, eds., Queering the Pitch: The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology (Routledge, 1993).
  • Michael Bronski, Culture Clash: The Making of a Gay Sensibility, (South End, 1984)
  • Claudia Card, Lesbian Choices, (Columbia UP, 1995).
  • Terry Castle, The Apparitional Lesbian: Female Homosexuality and Modern Culture (Columbia UP, 1993).
  • Corey Creekmur & Alexander Doty, eds., Out in Culture: Gay, Lesbian, and Queer Essays on Popular Culture (Duke UP, 1995).
  • Carol Ann Douglas, Love & Politics: Radical Feminism and Lesbian Theories (ism press, 1990)
  • Martin Duberman, Martha Vicinus, & George Chauncey, Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past (Meridian, 1990)
  • Martin Duberman, Stonewall (Dutton, 1993)
  • John D'Emilio, Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States, 1940-1970.
  • John D'Emilio & Estelle B. Freedman, Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America (Harper & Row, 1988).
  • Lilian Faderman, ed., Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian Literature (Viking, 1994).
  • Jeannett Foster, Sex Variant Women in Literature (Naiad, 1985).
  • Estelle Freedman, et. al. eds., Signs: The Lesbian Issue, 1985.
  • Diana Fuss, ed., Inside/Out: Lesbian Theories, Gay Theories (Routledge 1991).
  • M. Gever, P. Parmar, & J. Greyson, eds., Queer Looks: Perspectives on Lesbian and Gay Film and Video (Routledge, 1993)
  • Rose Gladney, ed., How Am I to Be Heard? Letters of Lillian Smith (U. North Carolina, 1993).
  • Judy Grahn, Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds (Beacon, 1984).
  • David F. Greenberg, The Construction of Homosexuality (U. of Chicago, 1988)
  • Hate Crimes in Los Angeles County 1993, A report to the L.A. County Board of Supervisors. May 1994, L.A. County Commission on Human Relations.
  • Gregory Herek & Keven Berrill, Hate Crimes: Confronting Violence Against Lesbians and Gay Men (Sage, 1992)
  • Helen Horowitz, The Power and Passion of M. Carey Thomas (Knopf, 1994).
  • Richard Isay, Being Homosexual: Gay Men and Their Development (Farrar, Strauss, 1989)
  • Karla Jay, Lesbian Erotics (NYU Press, 1995)
  • Karla Jay & Jaonne Glasgow, eds., Lesbian Texts & Contexts: Radical Revisions (NYU 1990).
  • Karla Jay & Allen Young, Out of the Closets: Voices of Gay Liberation, 20th Anniversary ed. (NYU Press, 1992).
  • Sheila Jeffreys, The Lesbian Heresy (N. Melbourne: Spinifex, 1993).
  • _______________, Lavendar Culture, new edition, (NYU Press, 1994).
  • Jonathan Ned Katz, Gay American History (Crowell, 1976)
  • _____________, Gay/Lesbian Almanac (Harper 1983)
  • _____________, The Invention of Heterosexuality (Dutton, 1995).
  • Monica Kehoe, ed., Historical, Literary and Erotic Aspects of Lesbianism, sp. issue: Journal of Homosexuality 5/1986.
  • Dolores Klaich, Woman Plus Woman (Naiad, 1974; 1989).
  • Sharon Lim-Hing, ed., The Very Inside: An Anthology of Writing by Asian & Pacific Islander Lesbian & Bisexual Women (Toronto: Sister Vision, 1984).
  • Anne Lister, I Know My Own Heart: The Diaries, 1791-1840, (Helena Whitbread, ed., NYU 1992).
  • __________, No Priest But Love: The Journals, 1824-26 (Helena Whitbred, ed., NYU 1993).
  • Anne McCay, Wolf Girls and Vassar: Lesbian and Gay Experience, 1930-1990 (St. Martin's, 1993).
  • Catherine McKinley & L. Joyce DeLaney, Afrekete: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Writing (Anchor Books, 1995). Moe Meyer, ed., The Politics & Poetics of Camp, (Routledge, 1994).
  • Neil Miller, In Search of Gay America: Women and Men in a Time of Change (Atlantic Monthly Press, 1989)
  • _________, Out of the Past: Gay & Lesbian History (Vintage, 1995).
  • Paul Monette, Last Watch of the Night (Harcourt, 1994).
  • Sally Munt, New Lesbian Criticism (Columbia UP, 1992).
  • Timothy Murphy & Suzanne Poirier, eds. Writing AIDS (Columbia UP, 1993).
  • Pauli Murray, Song in a Weary Throat: The Autobiography of a Black Activist, Feminist, Lawyer, Priest, & Poet (U Tennessee, pb ed, 1989).
  • Cindy Patton, Sex and Germs: The Politics of AIDS (South End Press, 1985).
  • Suzanne Pharr, Homophobia: A Weapon of Sexism (Chardon, 1988).
  • Shane Phelan, Identity Politics: Lesbian Feminism and the Limits of Community (Temple UP, 1989).
  • Ken Plummer, ed., Modern Homosexualities (Routledge, 1992).
  • Radical History Review: The Queer Issue, Spring 1995.
  • Juanita Ramos, ed., Companeras: Latina Lesbians: An Anthology (NY: Latina Lesbian History Project, 1987).
  • Sandy Rapp, God's Country: A Case Against Theocracy (Harrington Park Press, 1991).
  • Simon Shepard & Mick Wallis, Coming On Strong: Gay Politics and Culture (London: Unwin Hyman, 1990)
  • Jonathan G. Silin, Sex, Death & The Education of Children: Our Passion for Ignorance in the Age of AIDS (Columbia, 1995).
  • Makeda Silvera, Piece of My Heart: A Lesbian of Colour Anthology (Toronto: Sister Vision Press, 1991).
  • Bennett Singer, ed. Growing Up Gay/Lesbian (Norton, 1994).
  • Barbara Smith, ed., Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology (NY: Kitchen Table, Women of Color Press, 1983).
  • Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, Disorderly Conduct: Visions of Gender in Victorian America (Knopf, 1985).
  • Ann Snitow, Christine Stansell and Sharon Thompson, The Powers of Desire: The Politics of Sexuality (Monthly Review Press, 1983)
  • Diana Souhami, Gertrude and Alice (Pandora, 1991)
  • Arlene Stein, ed., Sisters, Sexperts, Queers: Beyond the Lesbian Nation (Plume, 1993).
  • Carla Trujillo, ed., Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About (Berkeley: 3d Woman Press, 1991).
  • Michael Warner, ed., Fear of a Queer Planet: Queer Politics and Social Theory (U. Minnesota, 1993)
  • James Woods, The Corporate Closet (Harper Collins, 1994)
  • Bonnie Zimmerman, The Safe Sea of Women: Lesbian Fiction 1969-1989 (Beacon, 1990)

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