The Columbia reader on lesbians and gay men in media, society, and politics

Gross, Larry P., 1942- (Added Author). Woods, James D. (Added Author).

Item details

ISBN: 0231104464 (alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780231104463 (alk. paper)
ISBN: 0231104472 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780231104470 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Physical Description: print
xx, 665 p. ; 26 cm.
Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press, c1999.

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction: Being Gay in American Media and Society / Larry Gross, James D. Woods -- Identity: The Modern Homosexual -- Other Times, Other Customs -- A Matter of Difference / Martin Duberman -- "Intimate Friendships" / Erica E. Goode, Betsy Wagner -- Categories, Experience, and Sexuality / John Boswell -- Capitalism and Gay Identity / John D'Emilio -- A Worm in the Bud: The Early Sexologists and Love Between Women / Lillian Faderman -- The Bowery as Haven and Spectacle / George Chauncey -- Who's a Queer? Identities in Question -- Making Ourselves from Scratch / Joseph Beam -- Becoming Lesbian: Identity Work and the Performance of Sexuality / Arlene Stein -- Gay Men, Lesbians, and Sex: Doing It Together / Pat Califia -- Maiden Voyage: Excursion Into Sexuality and Identity Politics in Asian America / Dana Y. Takagi -- Strangers at Home: Bisexuals in the Queer Movement / Carol Queen -- Just Add Water: Searching for the Bisexual Politic / Ara Wilson -- To Be or Not to Be / Leslie Feinberg -- Institutions and Opinion Makers -- Inventing Sin: Religion and the Church -- The Abominable Sin: The Spanish Campaign Against "Sodomy," and Its Results in Modern Latin America / Walter Williams -- Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons / Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger -- Homophobic? Re-Read Your Bible / Peter J. Gomes -- Biblical Verse: Is It a Reason or an Excuse? / Deb Price -- The Homosexual Movement: A Response by the Ramsey Colloquium / Ramsey Colloquium.