Introduction / Martin Duberman -- 1. Ephoros and Ritualized Homosexuality in Bronze Age Crete / Robert B. Koehl -- 2. The "Frigid Eromenoi" and Their Wooers Revisited: A Closer Look at Greek Homosexuality in Vase Painting / Keith DeVries -- 3. Pudicitia and Pueri: Roman Concepts of Male Sexual Experience / Craig A. Williams -- 4. Questions of Evidence: Commentary on Koehl, DeVries, and Williams / David M. Halperin -- 5. Picturing the Homoerotic / Allen Ellenzweig -- 6. "Disagreeably Hidden": Construction and Constriction of the Lesbian Body in Rosa Bonheur's Horse Fair / James M. Saslow -- 7. Laughing Hysterically: Sex, Repression, and American Film Comedy / Ed Sikov -- 8. More of a Man: Gay Porn Cruises Gay Politics / Mandy Merk -- 9. Strange Brew: Hollywood and the Fabrication of Homosexuality in Tea and Sympathy / George F. Custen -- 10. Don't Talk with Your Eyes Closed: Caught in the Hollywood Gun Sights / Wahneema Lubiano -- 11. Transgender Mirrors: Queering Sexual Difference / Chris Straayer -- 12. Negative Identifications: HIV-Negative Gay Men in Representation and Performance / David Roman -- 13. Ethics and Evidence in Gay Biography: American Composer Marc Blitzstein / Eric A. Gordon -- 14. Re/Membering Langston: Homophobic Textuality and Arnold Rampersad's Life of Langston Hughes / Charles I. Nero -- 15. Rethinking the Mythic Mannish Radclyffe Hall / Joanne Glasgow -- 16. Nineteenth-Century Discourses on Childhood Gender Training: The Case of Louisa May Alcott's Little Men and Jo's Boys / Michael Moon -- 17. Notes for a Queer Reading of Latin American Literature / Oscar Montero -- 18. Toward an Art of Transvestism: Colonialism and Homosexuality in Puerto Rican Literature / Arnaldo Cruz-Malave -- 19. "Closets, Closets, and More Closets!": Elizabeth Bishop's Lesbianism / Gary Fountain -- 20. I Lift My Eyes to the Hill: The Life of Mabel Hampton as Told by a White Woman / Joan Nestle -- 21. Horace Walpole's Forbidden Passion / Raymond Bentman -- 22. National Fantasies: Peeking into the Latin American Closet / B. Sifuentes Jauregui -- 23. Living the Word/Looking for Home / Essex Hemphill -- 24. On the Real Violet Quill Club / Felice Picano -- 25. Waiting for the End of the World / David B. Feinberg -- 26. The Perils of Promotion / Joe Keenan -- 27. Why I'm Not a Revolutionary / Sarah Schulman -- 28. Reminiscences of Pre-Stonewall Greenwich Village / Jim Clifford, Martin Duberman and Luvenia Pinson -- 29. Write First, Then Live / Jill Johnston -- 30. On the Beginnings of Lesbian Literature in the United States / Maria Irene Fornes, Bertha Harris and Jill Johnston -- 31. On Contemporary Lesbian Literature in the United States / Dorothy Allison, Blanche McCrary Boyd and Nicole Breedlove -- 32. On the Beginnings of Gay Male Literature in the United States / Samuel R. Delany, Sanford Friedman and Allen Ginsberg -- 33. On Contemporary Gay Male Literature in the United States / Christopher Bram, Dennis Cooper and Michael Cunningham -- 34. The Personal Is Political: Queer Fiction and Criticism / Edmund White
Notes
Essays, most rev. and enl., originally presented at events sponsored by the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS)