Queer ideas
Approaches to the experiences, history, and culture of lesbian and gay people, and in the process they think new and queer ideas into being. Contains: Joan Nestle on the outsider status of lesbians through the life of a working-class black lesbian who experienced the transition from complete marginalization to gay pride: Edmund White on queer fiction and criticism: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick on the dialogics of love: John D'Emilio on gay civil rights activist Bayard Rustin: Esther Newton on being ‘butch’: Barbara Smith on African American lesbian and gay history: Samuel R. Delany on the banishing of sex from Times Square: Cherríe Moraga on the intersections that make her a Xicanadyke: Judith Butler on human rights in the aftermath of 9/11: Alisa Solomon and Martin Duberman on the genesis of the lecture series and reflect on the evolution of lesbian and gay studies over its first ten years.
- Creator
- Duberman, Martin > (forew.)
- Solomon, Alisa > (intr.)
- Currah, Paisley > (intr.)