| Preface | | xvii | |
| Introduction: Being Gay in American Media and Society | | 3 | (22) |
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| One Identity: The Modern Homosexual | |
| Other Times, Other Customs |
| | 25 | (6) |
| | 31 | (2) |
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| | 33 | (3) |
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| Categories, Experience, and Sexuality |
| | 36 | (12) |
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| Capitalism and Gay Identity |
| | 48 | (8) |
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| A Worm in the Bud: The Early Sexologists and Love Between Women |
| | 56 | (11) |
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| The Bowery as Haven and Spectacle |
| | 67 | (12) |
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| Who's a Queer? Identities in Question |
| | 75 | (4) |
| Making Ourselves from Scratch |
| | 79 | (2) |
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| Becoming Lesbian: Identity Work and the Performance of Sexuality |
| | 81 | (11) |
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| Gay Men, Lesbians, and Sex: Doing It Together |
| | 92 | (4) |
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| Maiden Voyage: Excursion Into Sexuality and Identity Politics in Asian America |
| | 96 | (9) |
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| Strangers at Home: Bisexuals in the Queer Movement |
| | 105 | (3) |
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| Just Add Water: Searching for the Bisexual Politic |
| | 108 | (4) |
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| | 112 | (13) |
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| Two Institutions and Opinion Makers | |
| Inventing Sin: Religion and the Church |
| | 119 | (6) |
| The Abominable Sin: The Spanish Campaign Against ``Sodomy,'' and Its Results in Modern Latin America |
| | 125 | (10) |
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| Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons |
| | 135 | (3) |
| Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger |
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| Homophobic? Re-Read Your Bible |
| | 138 | (2) |
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| Biblical Verse: Is It a Reason or an Excuse? |
| | 140 | (1) |
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| The Homosexual Movement: A Response by the Ramsey Colloquium |
| | 141 | (6) |
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| In God's Image: Coming to Terms with Leviticus |
| | 147 | (10) |
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| Making Us Sick: The Medical and Psychological Establishment |
| | 153 | (4) |
| The Product Conversion--From Heresy to Illness |
| | 157 | (6) |
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| | 163 | (1) |
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| I Was Raising a Homosexual Child |
| | 164 | (5) |
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| The Psychologist--Dr. Evelyn Hooker |
| | 169 | (6) |
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| A Symposium: Should Homosexuality Be in the APA Nomenclature? |
| | 175 | (5) |
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| If Freud Had Been a Neurotic Colored Woman: Reading Dr. Frances Cress Welsing |
| | 180 | (11) |
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| Causes and Cures: The Etiology Debate |
| | 185 | (6) |
| Boys Will Be Girls: Sexology and Homosexuality |
| | 191 | (10) |
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| How to Bring Your Kids Up Gay: The War on Effeminate Boys |
| | 201 | (6) |
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| Studying the Biology of Sexual Orientation Has Political Fallout |
| | 207 | (4) |
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| Are Gay Men Born That Way? |
| | 211 | (12) |
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| Creating Criminals: Government and the Legal System |
| | 219 | (4) |
| | 223 | (2) |
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| Public Policy and Private Prejudice: Psychology and Law on Gay Rights |
| | 225 | (3) |
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| | 228 | (13) |
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| Denial and Erasure: Education and Culture |
| | 235 | (6) |
| | 241 | (4) |
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| | 245 | (6) |
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| Remembering Lenny: Parting Notes on a Friend Who Never Quite Came Out |
| | 251 | (2) |
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| | 253 | (3) |
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| Closets in the Museum: Homophobia and Art History |
| | 256 | (6) |
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| Imagine a Lesbian, a Black Lesbian |
| | 262 | (8) |
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| Too Queer for College: Notes on Homophobia |
| | 270 | (3) |
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| The Gay and Lesbian Publishing Boom |
| | 273 | (5) |
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| | 278 | (7) |
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| Gay Teachers Make Their Lives Whole Again |
| | 285 | (1) |
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| Pop Tune Can Comfort Teens Unsure of Their Sexuality |
| | 286 | (11) |
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| Three Mainstream Media | |
| Up From Invisibility: Film and Television |
| | 291 | (6) |
| | 297 | (4) |
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| Lesbians and Film: Some Thoughts |
| | 301 | (5) |
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| Where Is the Life That Late He Led? Hollywood's Construction of Sexuality in the Life of Cole Porter |
| | 306 | (10) |
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| Old Strategies for New Texts: How American Television Is Creating and Treating Lesbian Characters |
| | 316 | (11) |
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| Culture Stays Screen-Shy of Showing the Gay Kiss |
| | 327 | (2) |
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| Do Ask, Do Tell: Freak Talk on TV |
| | 329 | (6) |
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| | 335 | (6) |
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| Anything But Idyllic: Lesbian Filmmaking in the 1980s and 1990s |
| | 341 | (13) |
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| | 349 | (5) |
| Perverts Called Government Peril |
| | 354 | (1) |
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| The Homosexual in America Time |
| | 355 | (3) |
| A Rebuke for TIME's Pernicious Prejudice |
| | 358 | (2) |
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| A Minority's Plea: U.S. Homosexuals Gain in Trying to Persuade Society to Accept Them |
| | 360 | (3) |
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| Homo Nest Raided! Queen Bees Are Stinging Mad |
| | 363 | (2) |
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| The ``Gay'' People Demand Their Rights |
| | 365 | (1) |
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| The Lesbian Issue and Women's Lib |
| | 366 | (2) |
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| Uptight on Gay News: Can the Straight Press Get the Gay Story Straight? |
| | 368 | (7) |
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| Out at the New York Times |
| | 375 | (18) |
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| Cries and Whispers: AIDS and the Media |
| | 387 | (6) |
| Illness and Deviance: The Response of the Press to AIDS |
| | 393 | (9) |
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| | 402 | (6) |
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| A Test of Who We Are As a People |
| | 408 | (2) |
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| | 410 | (2) |
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| Big Science: What Ever Happened to Safer Sex? |
| | 412 | (9) |
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| | 417 | (4) |
| Contested Closets: The Politics and Ethics of Outing |
| | 421 | (8) |
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| How I Brought Out Malcom Forbes and the Media Flinched |
| | 429 | (2) |
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| | 431 | (2) |
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| | 433 | (10) |
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| Four Lesbian and Gay Media | |
| In Our Own Voices: The Lesbian and Gay Press |
| | 437 | (6) |
| | 443 | (3) |
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| ``News Hound''---Jim Kepner |
| | 446 | (4) |
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| The Advocate: Setting the Standard for the Gay Liberation Press |
| | 450 | (10) |
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| Representation, Liberation, and the Queer Press |
| | 460 | (1) |
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| Flaunting It! A Decade of Gay Journalism from The Body Politic |
| | 461 | (5) |
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| | 466 | (13) |
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| The Good Parts: Pornography |
| | 475 | (4) |
| Coming to Terms: Gay Pornography |
| | 479 | (7) |
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| Gender, Fucking, and Utopia: An Essay in Response to John Stoltenberg's Refusing to Be a Man |
| | 486 | (11) |
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| Free Speech or Hate Speech: Pornography and Its Means of Production |
| | 497 | (5) |
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| My History with Censorship |
| | 502 | (3) |
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| | 505 | (1) |
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| Lesbian Pornography: Cultural Transgression and Sexual Demystification |
| | 506 | (11) |
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| Looking for My Penis: The Eroticized Asian in Gay Video Porn |
| | 517 | (14) |
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| | 527 | (4) |
| Notes on Queer 'N Asian Virtual Sex |
| | 531 | (6) |
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| We're Teen, We're Queer, and We've Got E-mail |
| | 537 | (3) |
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| | 540 | (11) |
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| Five Community Prospects and Tactics | |
| Queer Positions and Perspectives |
| | 545 | (6) |
| With Downcast Gays: Aspects of Homosexual Self-Oppression |
| | 551 | (11) |
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| The Woman-Identified Woman |
| | 562 | (3) |
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| Lesbianism: An Act of Resistance |
| | 565 | (6) |
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| I Paid Very Hard for My Immigrant Ignorance |
| | 571 | (4) |
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| Our Right to the World: Beyond the Right to Privacy |
| | 575 | (8) |
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| Chasing the Crossover Audience and Other Self-Defeating Strategies |
| | 583 | (5) |
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| Queers Read This: I Hate Straights |
| | 588 | (13) |
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| The New Right = The Old Wrongs? |
| | 595 | (6) |
| | 601 | (10) |
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| | 611 | (5) |
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| | 616 | (15) |
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| | 625 | (6) |
| Here Comes the Groom: A (Conservative) Case for Gay Marriage |
| | 631 | (2) |
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| Why Gay People Should Seek the Right to Marry |
| | 633 | (4) |
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| Since When Is Marriage a Path to Liberation? |
| | 637 | (3) |
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| | 640 | (3) |
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| | 643 | (1) |
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| | 644 | (3) |
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| | 647 | (2) |
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| Blacks and Gays: Healing the Great Divide |
| | 649 | (6) |
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| | 653 | (2) |
| Why I'm Not a Revolutionary |
| | 655 | (3) |
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| | 658 | (3) |
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| Credits | | 661 | |
