Contents
PRAISE FOR OUT in All Directions
Pink Politics • Harvey Milk • Gay and Lesbian Elected Officials • Elaine Noble • Sherry Harris • Gerald Eugene Ulrich • Appointed Officials • Roberta Achtenberg • Paul Richard • Mary Morgan • Federal Political Offices Held By Out Lesbians and Gay Men, 1994 • Gay Speakers Take the Floor • Out of the Closet, Into the Newsroom • Out in the Media • Linda Villarosa • Randy Shifts • Deb Price • Queered Science • Gay and Lesbian Scientists • Keeping the Faith • Queers in the Church • History of Lesbian and Gay Ordination • Toleration or Inclusion? • Jane Spahr • Gay and Lesbian Jews in Orthodox and Conservative Jewish Communities • Contemporary Openly Lesbian and Gay Religious Leaders • That Artistic Flair • A Few American Gay Composers • Rock, Roll, and Riot Grrls • Sylvester • Gays in the Fashion Industry: What’s Covered Up Is Revealing • Robert Mapplethorpe • A Sampling of Contemporary Lesbian and Gay Visual Artists • Artists We Have Lost • Bravo! Brava! • Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual Mainstream Award Winners • Sports Are for Sissies, Too • People Who Have Come Out in Big-Name Athletics • Greg Louganis • I Didn’t Know There Were Gays in the Military • Homophobia in the Military • Ten Lesbian and Gay Military Heroes • Profiles of Early Challengers to the Antihomosexual Military Policy • We Really Are Everywhere • Bayard Rustin • Dick Hanson • Homecoming Queer • It’s Not Impossible to Be Queer in Idaho • … One in Every Family
CHAPTER 2: How We Are Seen, How We See Ourselves
Projected Images: Homosexuality and Film • A Brief History of Lesbians and Gay Men in Mainstream Film • Major Gay and Lesbian Stereotypes in Film • Presto Change-o • The Gay Psychokiller Hall of Fame • The Screen’s Nastiest Lesbian or Bisexual Women • People Who Have Played Lesbian, Gay, or Bisexual Roles • Vito Russo • Important Figures in Lesbian/Gay Cinema • Lesbian and Gay Documentaries • AIDS and the Cinema • Film Notes and Quotable Quotes • New Lesbian Cinema • Queer Cinema • A Totally Subjective Handful of Queer Movies • Lesbian and Gay Film Festivals • Gays and Lesbians Under the Lights • Lesbians and Gay Men on Stage • An Eclectic Collection of Lesbian and Gay Plays • Faggots and Dykes in Your Living Room • Gay Characters Who Weren’t • Phil Donahue’s First Lesbian • “…And the Women Who Love Them” • Gay Men, Lesbians, and the Cable TV Revolution • Make DYKE TV, Not War • What’s in a Name? • PBS Is In the Life • The Lavender Airwaves • Out on the Radio • Dykes on the Air • Gay Radio Programs from around the Country • The Written Word • Earliest American Gay and Lesbian Novels • As the Twilight World Turns • Seeing Ourselves Where We Aren’t—Putting Ourselves in the Picture • Gay Men and Lesbians in Mainstream Mysteries • Pulp and Circumstances: the Lesbian Love Affair with the Private Eye • Early Gay and Lesbian Characters in Mystery Novels • Queer Aliens—Classic Gay and Lesbian Science Fiction Novels • Words Make a Movement • Daughters, Inc.: Pioneer Publishers Statement from the Second National Black Writers Conference A Light-Hearted Look at Lesbian Novels and Their Love Scenes Lambda Literary Award Winners • Going Glossy • Queer ’Zines
CHAPTER 3: Reinventing History
Claiming Our Own—Famous Names • Frontier Queers • Frontier Comrades: Homosexuality in the American West • Things Were Hopping in Colorado in the Late 1800s • She’s Got Balls as Big as a Bull • Passing and Cross-Dressing • The Man Who Lived Thirty Years as a Woman • Berdache Roles in North American Tribes • Seven Famous Female Impersonators • Butch-Femme Relationships • The Harlem Renaissance • The Harlem Renaissance: Forming a Queer Consciousness Through the Blues • Six Reasons Why Langston Hughes Couldn’t Have Been Gay • White Folks “Slumming” in Harlem • Gathering Places • Cruising at the YMCA • Gay Beach, 1958 • Anatomy of a Raid, 1967 • Rikki Streicher and the Lesbian Bar • Early Organizations • The Mattachine Society • One, Inc. • SIR (Society for Individual Rights) Daughters of Bilitis • Gay Liberation—(Way) Beyond Assimilation • The Gay Liberation Front—Revolutionary Queers • The Furies • Early Demonstrations • Seven Demonstrations Before Stonewall • Stonewall Revisited • Operation Liberation • Homophile Magazines • Vice Versa—In Explanation • The Homophile Press • Gay Liberation and Lesbian-Feminist Magazines and Newspapers • Deviant Medicine • Dr. Evelyn Hooker • Thirteen Theories to “Cure” Homosexuality
Heroes and Saints • Does It Matter? • Fear of Going Home: Homophobia • Reflections on a Birthday, a Bombshell, and a Parade • We Are Special • Fighting for Our Lives • Refug(e)e: Hiding Out • “Gee, You Don’t Seem Like an Indian from the Reservation” • One in a Million, but Rather Ordinary • Ageful Equals Rageful • Dreaming of Challah as the Goddess’s Hair • Dia de Los Muertos • Country Coming Out • I Lost It at the Movies • Notes from a Diary • I Am Your Sister • Friends of Dorothy • Cost of Living Adjustment • Coming Out for Love • Different Is Not Bad • Reflections of a Gay Jew • I Was Queer When Gay Meant Happy • You Dared Us to Dream That We Are Worth Wanting Each Other • Yom Kippur Morning at Kehilla Community Synagogue • Tomás • Stonewalled? A Journal • New Mexico APL
CHAPTER 5: Coming Together: Building Community
Creating Family • How We Meet • Dating: Tips on Approval • Dating Again • Twelve Tips for Meeting Other Young Queers • Stages of Gay Male Relationships • Stages of Lesbian Relationships • Famous Long-Term Lesbian and Gay Couples • What to Answer When Your Mother Asks “Why in the World Would You Want to Do That?” • Seven Bad Reasons to Get Married • Newspapers That List Same Sex Wedding/Union Announcements • Wedding Belles • Where Did You Get It? • Caring for Each Other • Southern Reflection • Embracing Family • Blood, Thick and Thin • The Gift • A Taste of Heaven • Gathering Together • The Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches • Unity Fellowship Church • Gay and Lesbian Spiritual Organizations within Major Christian Denominations • Gay and Lesbian Synagogues • The Radical Faeries • Gay Spirit Visions Come to the North Carolina Mountains • Lesbians on Land • Wimmin’s Lands • Women’s Music • Women’s Music Festivals • The Roots of Feminist Men’s Music • Physical Community/Virtual Community • Gay Neighborhoods Around the Country • There’s a There There Now • The Queer Global Village • Notes on Queer ‘n’ Asian Virtual Sex • Building Foundations • Community Centers • Events at New York Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center, November 1993 • Living Sober • Lesbian and Gay Youth Programs • Special Collections of Gay/Lesbian Materials • Lesbian and Gay Studies
The Most Common Myths about Gay Men and Lesbians • Where Do They Get Those Numbers? • The U.S. Census: The Government Tries to Count Us • Are You Born That Way? • The Sex That Is Not One • It’s in the Jeans: Biology, Culture, and the Struggle for Gay Liberation • Born Republican • Myth Making and Unmaking • The Degradation of Love • Most Frequently Asked Questions about Gay Men and Lesbians • If Gays Have No Choice, Why Are They So Hated? • … Even Educated Fleas Do It • Gay Sheep Come Out of the Closet • A Reverse Questionnaire • When You Meet Gay and Lesbian People: Hints for the Heterosexual • Can You Spot the Homosexual? • How to Tell if Your Son Is Gay • How to Recognize Homosexuals • Newly Misunderstood • Just What Is the Much-Feared Gay Lifestyle?
CHAPTER 7: Our Very Queer Lives
… As a Three-Dollar Bill • What’s in a Name • Exploring Gender • Would You Still Be Gay … • Myths/Realities of Bisexuality • Bisexuality: Beyond the Walls of Gender • Modern Day Butch/Femme • The Transsexual Mythtique • You’re Strange and We’re Wonderful • The Politics of Drag • Get Her! — Wisdom from Great Drag Queens • Behind the Mask • Dirty Talk • Sex and Stonewall • A History of Sex-Positive Lesbian Erotica • Gay Male Porn: Look Back in Swagger • Dave Kinnick’s Top Ten List of Gay XXX Videos • Leather and Love • The Spiritual Side of Radical Sexuality • Truth Is an Absolute Essential • What S/M Means to Me • Leather Queens and Kings • Gayspeak/Gaydress • How Gay Is Gay? • Gayspeak vs. Phobespeak • True Confessions of a Queer Banana • Speaking in Code • What’s in a Color? • Symbolically Queer • History of the Rainbow Flag • Fashion Is Such a Drag—The Clothes We Wear • If I Simply Wanted Status, I’d Wear Calvin Klein • The Minefield of Lesbian Fashion • Standing Out in a Crowd • Why Have a Gay Pride Parade? • Where Do I Belong in This Parade, Anyway? • Marching for Power • Impressions of the March • When I First Saw Audre Lorde • Gay, Gifted, and Black, There Ain’t No Turning Back • Remembrances • The 1993 March on Washington • Starting Gate • Stonewall 25—A Celebration • Stonewall 25 Radical
CHAPTER 8: Ensuring Our Survival
Urvashi Vald’s 1993 March on Washington Speech • Getting It Together • National Lesbian and Gay and AIDS Political Organizations • Created Equal • Hate Crime Laws • Who Cares About Sodomy Laws, Anyway? • Why We Need to Find Legal Ways to Protect Our Relationships • How Can Gay and Lesbian Couples Protect Themselves? • Groups That Promote Hatred and Homophobia under the Guise of “Family Values” • Statement on Family Values • Out in the Streets • Great Lesbian and Gay and AIDS Actions of the Last Twenty Years • Top Ten Lesbian Avenger Qualities • Rare Cancer Seen in 41 Homosexuals • My Buddy Died Today • The Beginning of Acting Up • Surviving AIDS • Myths about HIV for Gay or Bisexual Men • Lesbians and AIDS: Myths and Facts • Bridges: Allies and Coalitions • An Injury to One … • Fishnets, Not Bomber Jets • I Was a Teenage Draft Dodger • The Women’s Liberation and Gay Liberation Movements • Reflections on Homophobia • Things Straight People Can Do for Gay People • Chief Kisses Officer in Public • The Personal Is the Political • The Politics of Silence • Twenty-Five Little Hurricanes—Individual Actions for Everyday Life • We Must Not Go Quietly • The NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt • No Room in the Closet for This Quilt • Suggestions for Action from People of Faith Against Bigotry • Twelve Young Lesbian and Gay Individuals Making a Difference
Laughing at Ourselves • Lesbian and Gay Comics • Start and Sputter • Successes—Queer Strip Characters • A Quick Look at AIDS in the Comics • Queer Comics’ Queer Comments • Letter from Home • Out on the Town • The Ins and Outs of Gay Bars • Bank Shot Cruising • Shake Your Groove Thing • Songs That Move Queers • Two-Stepping for Beginners • Square Your Sets! • Jockstraps and Sports Bras • Dykes, Diamonds, and Double-Plays • These Gloves Ain’t Sequined, Honey • The History of Gay Rodeo • Someone’s on the Fairway with Dinah • Great Names in Sports • A History of the Gay Games • Official Sporting Events of Gay Games IV • Hobbies for Homos • Lesbian and Gay Bands of America • Why I Play in the Gay Band • Singing in Harmony • Getting Away • Summer Camps Making a Difference • Top Ten Gay Destinations in the United States • Advice for Gay Travelers • Ten Tips for Traveling Queer and Cheap • Lesbian and Gay Cruise Companies • Gay Cruising on the Open Seas • And the Winner Is … • Gay and Lesbian Walking Tours
CHAPTER 10: The Material World
Homo/Economics: A Survey of the Issues • Lesbians and Gay Men at Work • Is There a Lavender “Glass Ceiling”? • The Five Best Companies for Gay Men and Lesbians • First Statement of Lavender Labor • Suggestions for Making Your Union Safer for Its Lesbian and Gay Members • The Gay and Lesbian Labor Conference at Stonewall 25 • Queer Groups at Work • Subject: Coming Out at the Interview • In Our Own Words • Entrepreneurship: A Way Out? A Way In? • Early Gay Business Associations • Buy Lesbian … Or Bye! Lesbian • Owning Our Own: Gay and Lesbian Bookstores • Grand Books • Gay/Lesbian Bookstores • Gay Money: What Is It? Who Has It? • Rich and Gay? • Coming Out of the Privilege Closet • Gay and Lesbian Philanthropy • Advice for Giving • Gay and Lesbian Foundations • Coming Out of the Housing Closet