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A GLBTQ EDUCATION INTERNET RESOURCES Community Attributes & Problems

Index:Community Attributes  &  Problems Index - Couples / Families / Children / Adoption / Spousal Violence -  - The Elderly -  - Bisexuality -  - Religion   &  Spirituality -  - GLBT  History -  - HIV-AIDS -  - Male  Youth Prostitution -  - Race/Ethnic Minority Issues: U.S., Canada, Europe,  New Zealand & Australia -  -  Latin America / Africa -  - Middle East / Asia -  - Homosexuality:  Biological  or  Learned ? -  -  Public School Issues -  - Transgender / Transvestite / Transsexual -  - Lesbian  &  Bisexual Women -  - Homo-Negativity / Phobia -  - Identity Formation  &  Coming Out -  - Counseling  &  Therapy -  - Professional Education  -  - Gay & Bisexual Male Suicide Problems -  - Drug / Alcohol Use / Abuse / Addiction

Part 1 (This Page): -  Community / Culture / Pride -  - Publications & GLBT Book Listings -  - The Arts -  - Classism -  - Ethnic / Race Issues & Racism -  - Stereotypes? Negative Stereotypes? & Scapegoating --Sissyphobia / Transphobia / Effeminaphobia.

Part 2 (Other Web Page):- Anonymous Near - Anonymous Public Sex / Promiscuity -  - Intergenerational Relationships -  - Sadomasochism -  - 'Different', Not Fitting in, Community Rejection/Abuse, Being Fetishized -  - Ableism: People With Disabilities -  - Body Shape/Size & Other Attributes -  - Rape and Sexual Abuse -  - Full Text Papers.

Part 3 (Individual Pages): -  Bisexuality, Biphobia,  and Related Issues / Abuses -  - The Elderly and Ageism -  - Intimate Relationships -  - Couples, Marriage & Adoption -  - Violence in Relationships -  - Drug / Alcohol Use / Abuse / Addiction

Queer Community  Attributes &  Problems - Part 1

Points of View about The Word "Queer". - Objections to using the word "queer" in the African American GLBT community. - Use of Same-Gender-Loving (SGL) by African Americans. - Queer Geography: Do gays exist? - A Queer Co-Optation Looking for Identity in All the Wrong Places: "We knew, always should have known, that there were many times more bisexuals than homosexuals." - Gay and Lesbian Language: A partial Bibliography. - As you may have noticed in watching QT, queer natives refer to themselves as two-spirit or two-spirited. In Changing Ones Roscoe explains how that became the term of choice. - How do sexual minorities express their cultural or sexual identity in virtual worlds and what does it mean for them? - Gay Species: Language and Social Construction. - Performing Sexual Identity: Naming and Resisting Gayness in Modern Thailand. - ...these images offer insight into the dominant notions of the white heterosexual male that are that are embedded into the West’s nationalist discourses, and offer insight into what bodies, and what desires, are left out of these discourses.

Researchers examine patterns in gay speech: Linguists identify phonetic characteristics that seem to make a man's voice sound stereotypically gay. - Gay lisp. - Beyond Lisping: code switching and gay speech styles: Many gay men are effectively bilingual, and can elect whether to sound gay or straight, depending where they are or who they are with. Just as an African-American individual may switch from Ebonics to standard English, or the other way around, gay people can switch from 'straight' to 'gay'. This is an example of code-switching. - Sounding gay. - Speech, male sexual orientation, and childhood gender nonconformity. - Sexuality as Identity: Gay and Lesbian Language (PDF Download). - In Search of Gay Language (PPT Presentation). - Gay and lesbian language. - - The lost language of camp. (Alternate Link). - Lavender linguistics (Alternate Link).  - Studies on LGBTQ Language: A Partial Bibliography. - A Semantic Look At Feminine Sex And Gender Terms In Philippine Gay Lingo (PDF Download). - Ideology of Gay Racialist Skinheads and Stigma Management Techniques.

About Queer Space: Queer space is a highly specific mode of space, with its own complex meaning and significance. It is always already contested, not only because of the often marginal character of queer subcultures and activities, but because of the contestedness of queer identities themselves - balanced between a desire for rights, recognition, and acceptance on the one hand, and distinction, difference and alterity on the other. Queer space thus plays a key role in the construction and maintenance of community, society, and culture in a diverse slice of contemporary society. It is imperative that this role is understood. - All papers presented at the conference, and published here, were subject to a process of blind peer review at both abstract and full paper stage. - ‘You show me yours, I’ll show you mine’: the negotiation of shifts from textual to visual modes in computer-mediated interaction among gay men. - Cultural Communication via the Internet and GLBT Community Building in China (PDF Download). - Gay Specificity: The Reworking of Heteronormative Discourse in the Hong Kong Gay Community (PDF Download). - Spaces to Be Maneuvered: Lesbian Identities and Temporality (PDF Download).

About Queer Space: Download Page For Papers:  'GWM ISO GAM': Mediated identities and ethnicity fetish'. - Crafting queer spaces: privacy and posturing. - Reconciling self: gay men and lesbians using domestic materiality for identity management. - The Centre of Periphery: the Case of Contemporary Bangkok's Gay Spaces. - Queer Space and the City: What Adelaide's Queer Community Said. - Queer space in Seventeenth-Century Lisbon: Centres and Peripheries. - Bondi's underbelly: the 'gay gang murders'. - Queering the space of the Public Toilet. -  lost in space: Changes in physical, legal and linguistic frameworks relating to the New Zealand public toilet. - Queensland's emerging homosexual subculture and public space, 1890-1914. - Chilling out in the country? Interrogating Daylesford as a 'gay / lesbian rural idyll'. - Conceptualising Place in the Lived Experience of Gay Men in Rural Communities. - Slash as Queer Utopia. - Cavity Filler: The Queer Interstice. - Queer Space as Installation.  -  'With their bodies on the line': activist space and sexuality in the Australian alter-globalisation movement. - American Stories: Narratives of Family in Public Discourse. - Any Queeries.

About Queer Space: Download Page For Papers: Architecture and Hermaphroditism: gender ambiguity and the forbidden antecedents of architectural form. - The Onanist's Escape From Architectural Captivity. - Homosexuality and the Star Hotel: Exploring the traces of Queer Space in Newcastle in the 1970s. - Queer Workshopping: Constructions of Self, Space and Perverse Toys. - Provincial Paradoxes: 'at home' with older gay men in a provincial town of the Antipodes. - Gay Ghettos for the New Millennium: Oxford Street meets Mogenic.com and the question of queer space. - Constructed Online Identities: Capturing Anonymity. - Gay scene, queer grid.  - The veil and the closet: Islam and the production of queer space. - [You make me Feel] Mighty Real: David McDiarmid's art and the space within [the] House. - Amongst the Ruins. - Is the Golden Mile tarnishing? Urban and social change on Oxford Street, Sydney.- Queer places as 'passings that haunt us'.

Imagining King Street in the Gay/Lesbian Media. - GLBTQ Geography. - Sexuality in Geography. - Queer diffusions. - Gay and Lesbian Geographies Course Handout. - Early Gay Activism in Chelsea: Building a Queer Neighborhood. - The Queer / Gay Assimilationist Split: The Suits vs. the Sluts (Monthly Review). - Queer Geography: Mapping Our Identities: Short Documentary Film. - Queer Spaces: An Excavation of Identities and Interests in Contemporary Canadian Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered Politics. - Suck My Nation - Masculinity, Ethnicity and the Politics of (Homo)sex (PDF Download) (Abstract). - The Social Construction of Sexual Practice: Setting Sexual Culture and the Body in Casual Sex Between Men. - The Social Construction of Western Male Homosexuality: Associations With Worsening Youth Suicide Problems.

My Queer Korea: Identity, Space, and the 1998 Seoul Queer Film & Video Festival. - Geography Centre: Queers in Space. - Sexual Identity and Urban Community. - Queer Space : Architecture and Same-Sex Desire. - The "End of Gay". - Assimilation and its meaning: the end of gay culture. - Why the gay community will succeed. - Gay Society as a Sub-Culture. - La saison de la fierté revient à Montréal. Mais fierté de quoi? - Gay Activists Win Royal Honor N/A. - Between Being and Looking: Queer Tourism Promotion and Lesbian Social Space in Greater Philadelphia (PDF Download). - Rethinking queer migration through the body. - Desire :: Migration: Real and Imagined Spaces and Places of Queer Female Immigrants in Switzerland (PDF Download),

Queer Spaces, Modem Boys, and Pagan Statues: Gay/Lesbian Identity and the Construction of Cyberspace  (By Randal Woodland, in Cybercultures Reader, pp. 416-431) - Inventing Queer Place: Social space and the urban environment as factors in the writing of gay, lesbian and transgender histories. (By Marc Greyling , B.A.Hons) - The Lesbigay Enclave of Dallas, Texas: A Sociological Perspective. - Where the Boys Are: The Relationship Between Gay Space and Identity. - Gay Male Culture: Evolving and Revolving. - Queer Spaces Project. - The gay ghetto is dead, Long live the gay ghetto. - The Scenography of HIV Infection for Young Gay Men: Educating Emotion and Desire: Individuation and sexual identity. - A queer geography: journeys toward a sexual self by Frank Browning. - Cruising Geography:  a queer glance at geography's orientation.

Y-a-t-il une culture gaie/lesbienne francophone?, par Marie-Jo Bonnet Colloque Cultures gaies et lesbiennes, 1998. - De l'ouverture du ghetto à la dépolitisation. Les festivals de films gais et lesbiens en France en questions, Olivier Jablonski (Revue H, n°5/6 1997). - Editorial Opinion: Profiting from Gay Loneliness. - Lesbian and Gay Cultures (University Course: Word Download). - Gay and Lesbian Culture of San Francisco: 1960's - 1990s. - Is the Gay Rights Movement  Doomed to Fail? 

Marcher dans le gai Marais.  Some evolving physical aspect of the 'gay community' in Paris, France. - "Le Marais: The Indifferent Ghetto" (The Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review, Winter 1999.) - GAA and The Birth of Gay Liberation. - The 1st World Conference on LESBIAN & GAY CULTURE, Stockholm, 1998, and the Fifth Conference. - Sharing Resources and Indexing Meanings in the Production of Gay Styles (Chapter 11, by Robert Podesva, Sarah Roberts, Kathryn Campbell-Kibler. In Language and Sexuality: Contesting Meaning in Theory and Practice - edited by Kathryn Campbell-Kibler, Robert J. Podesva, Sarah J. Roberts and Andrew Wong: PDF Download). - Male Homosexuality and Popular Culture in Modern Japan. - What Is Necessary for US? For Our Queer Movement in Japan? (PDF Download) - The Social Situation Facing Gays in Japan.

No Sex, Please, We’re Gay Teens:... The GLBT movement is seriously failing queer young people in matters of sex.... Young queer people today are growing up in a world where gay and mainstream culture give them mixed signals about sexuality and sexual behavior. The two historical circumstances that made growing up gay so unique for those born in the mid-1980s and after—the fight for marriage equality and the AIDS epidemic—are also making it almost impossible to have informed, healthy, and sane discussions about sexual desire and sexual activity. That’s because in recent years the clanging of wedding bells and the insistent bad news about HIV transmission (much of it fueled by anti-gay hysteria in the mainstream media) has distorted how the gay and lesbian community talks about sex. Over the past five years, safe sex education, seen from the mostly gay-run AIDS non-profits, has shifted from promoting healthy sexuality and sexual behavior to the “be afraid to have sex” scare tactics of the 1980s. Moreover, the fight for marriage equality—and the elevation of marriage as the idealized pinnacle of appropriate and healthy homosexuality—has moved front and center in gay politics and, to a large degree, in the imaginations of young gay people, much to their detriment...  In almost all the community discussion of marriage equality, the word “sex”—even the idea of “sex”—is glaringly absent...  The connection between AIDS and marriage here is not incidental or accidental. When the AIDS epidemic exploded, one of the first responses to it, both within and outside the queer community, was to urge gay men to stop having sex and to enter into monogamous relationships. Even after the specifics of AIDS transmission became known, much AIDS education focused on curtailing sexual experience altogether. For many gay male commentators, such as Larry Kramer, Bruce Bawer, and Gabriel Rotello, the curtailment of sexual activity was the only “cure” for the AIDS epidemic. ..  Most of us—excluding a significant part of the religious right, which favors abstinence-only sex- ed—know that people get better at sex not only by having a range of sexual experiences, often with different people, but also by thinking and talking about sex. That is the conversation that gay men and lesbians as a community are not having and that is being stifled by the power and the enormous consequence that the same-sex marriage debate—drained of sex—has assumed in our politics and lives.

Gay Pride: - Happy gay and lesbian Pride (Toronto, 1999)  -  Hedonism 2000: Pride / Sex, drugs & workin' it all week long  - San Jose Gay Pride 2003. - Black Lesbian and Gay Pride Inc. - Vancouver Pride Day, 1997.  - Gay Pride, Washington, DC., 2001. - Pacific NW Gay Pride Page. - GLB EuroPride. - Problems and Prospects for being gay in Russia. - Symbols of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Movements. - Bangkok Gay Festival 2002. - Pride Week celebrates diversity and strengthens communities N/A. - Pride by many other names: whether it's a dyke march, black gay pride, or a youth rally, gay men and lesbians are finding new ways to celebrate their diversity. - Montreal Gay Pride parade cancelled (2007).- Festival of Sexual Minorities in Japan: A Revival of the Tokyo Lesbian & Gay Parade in 2005. - Google Search: Gay Pride. - Flying the rainbow flag in Asia (PDF Download). - Lesbian Identity and Community Projects in Beijing: Notes from the Field on Studying and Theorising Same-Sex Cultures in the Age of Globalization (PDF Download). 

The changing nature of Gay Pride: A Mardis Gras Affair N/A. - Is Mardi Gras still necessary? (Alternate Link: "Thirty years after gay liberation swept the country, the next generation prefer to live in their own individual way rather than conform to a scene. Robert Reynolds wonders whether gay life needs to be "out there" any more.") -  Lesbian & Gay Pride: Western Australia. - Mardi Gras - Sydney. - Bursting (Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras) bubbles – or, When 'bigger and better' bites you on the bum. - From camp to queer: remaking the Australian homosexual. - State of the community: a critical diagnosis. 

Gay Shame and Gay Shame Conference Related Links: Shame Bestowed at Pride. - Gay Shame: A Radical Queer Alternative. - Gay Shame: A Challenge to Gay Pride. - Gay Shame San Francisco. - Ten pink pounds for a gay-bashing. - Gay Shame: A Challenge to Gay Pride. - Gay shame: And the man in you. - Gay Shame Opposes marriage In Any Form. - Gay shame, gay pride: Why 'gay pride' doesn't work for me. - DUMBA's Gay Shame. - What's that sound? Gay Shame, aloud. - Gay Shame: A Radical Alternative. (Alternate Link) - Anti-commercial queers to celebrate Gay Shame. - Dyxploitation: This issue, coming out on Gay Pride Day 1998 is a Gay Shame special. - Gay Pride? Gay Shame! - Gay Pride’s Date With Shame. - Navigating Pride and Shame. - Shopping for freedom? Shame on you. Steal it, instead. - Google Search: Gay Shame.

I Am Not A Lesbian! An official response to those three little words... "Are you Gay?" : "Don't let that rainbow flag fool you - the Gay Press rarely comprehends or promotes Queerness either. In fact, many writers and editors at Gay publications will delete the term "Queer" and replace it with "Gay" or "Lesbian," including in the context of a direct quote. Even Gay journalists sympathetic to the 'Queer cause' get it wrong. For example, while recalling the above interview to a Queer-friendly reporter who had just handed me a copy of his recent publication, I notice his face blush awkwardly. Later that evening I read the first line of his article describing me as a "Gay artist." Hmm..." - Mixed Emotions (on Pride Week). - Craig Johnston Essays.

Rainbow Flag N/A: (Alternate Link) Symbol of the Gay Community Turns 25; Massive Celebrations Mark Anniversary; ABSOLUT Presents the 25th Anniversary Kick Off With A Mile-And-A-Quarter-Long Rainbow Flag to be Unfurled In Key West.

The Queer Dictionary: "The evolution of queer cultures has left us reeling -terms, symbols, ribbons, triangles... each new historical articulation leaves us with at least eight new terms to deal with. This is supposed to be a resource for those of us trying to navigate the insanity of ten or twelve overlapping cultural revolutions. enjoy."

Toward a post-gay world. - M. Signorile: Ex-gay. Too gay. Postgay. What happened to gay? (The Advocate 776-777, 71- 81.) (Excerpt) - As if we were a community. - Gay ... Pride? -  What is this Gay Community Shit? - The Sydney Gay Mardi Gras and the Left by Sasha Soldatow. - The man lesbians love to hate: Bob Tivey worries that gay men are losing a vital part of their erotic identity. - A Different Angle Essays. - The Queer Issue by Michael Warner: "In the Age of Alterity, the Rainbow is not Enuf. Disruptions. -  Beyond the 'Good Gay'/'Bad Gay' Syndrome. - The Future of Covering the Gay/Lesbian Community. - Gay liberation: is the fight over? (Presentation to Marxism 2001 conference, University of Technology Sydney, 26 August 2001: PDF Download).

Fabricating Heritage by David Lowenthal (History & Memory 10-1). - Related Gay Writings: - Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 - 1994 - by George Chauncey (Book Review). - The Invention of  Sodomy in Christian Theology by Mark Jordan (Review).

Karl Heinrich Ulrichs (Born August 28, 1825) - Introduces gay people young and old to the heritage that Ulrichs said is rightfully theirs. Let Gay people imbed it in their conscience that Gay rights have been so hard-won, beginning with one lone voice seemingly calling in the desert. Now, Gay people have a rich tradition of such voices, and it all began with Ulrichs.

Gunther, Scott (1999). Le Marais: The Indifferent Ghetto. The Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review, 6(1): 34. Full Text. - Gunther, Scott (2005). Alors, are we 'queer' yet? The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide, 12(3): 23-25. Full Text.

A Resource And Guide To Homosexuality, Bisexuality and Transgenderism In Anime. - Anime Project Genres. - Casual Homosexuality: "Homosexuality is pretty common in anime and manga. Because of the Western tendency toward homophobia, though, we don't often see blatant homosexuality in translated anime and manga. More casual homosexuality, though, does tend to make it through the 'censors'." - GLBT Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, Directories, Handbooks.

Search GLBTQ: The Encyclopedia of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender & Queer Culture. - Search BGLAD. - Search the QRD. - Search all GLBT Resource Directories. - Search Google.com. - Search Google Scholar. - Search Google's G:LBT Directory. - MSN Search. - Search findarticles.com: many full text articles and papers.

Abstracts: - Matter out of place: visibility and sexualities in leisure spaces. - Geographies of sexuality - a review of progress. - De-dyking Queer Space(s): Heterosexual Female Visibility in Gay and Lesbian Spaces. - Lesbians in the Crowd: gender, sexuality and visibility along Montréal's Boul. St-Laurent. -
Sexing Geography, Teaching Sexualities. - Queering home or domesticating deviance? Interrogating gay domesticity through lifestyle television. -

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Finalists for the annual Lambda Literary Awards: 2007, 2006 (Winners), 2005 (Winners & Nominees, Must Scroll), 2004 (Winners & Nominees), 2003 (Winners & Nominees), 2002 (Winners & Nominees, Must Scroll), 2001 (Winners & Nominees, Must Scroll), 2000 (Winners) (Winners & Nominees, Must Scroll), Must Scroll), 1999 (Winners & Nominees) (Winners & Nominees, Must Scroll), 1998 (Winners & Nominees, Must Scroll), 1997 (Winners & Nominees, Must Scroll), 1996 (Winners & Nomineesl), 1992-1995 (Winners & Nominees), 1988-1991 (Winners & Nominees). Categories: Anthology - Arts & Culture - Bisexual - Childrens/Young Adult - Drama/Theater - Humor - LGBT Nonfiction - LGBT Studies - Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror - Spirituality - Transgender -- Lesbian Fiction - Lesbian Romance - Lesbian Mystery - Lesbian Poetry - Lesbian Memoir/Biography - Lesbian Erotica - Lesbian Debut Fiction -- Gay Fiction - Gay Romance - Gay Mystery - Gay Poetry - Gay Memoir/Biography - Gay Erotica - Debut Gay Fiction.

Books: - We Are Everywhere: A Historical Sourcebook of Gay and Lesbian Politics - (Review) 1997 - by Mark Blasius, Shane Phelan (Abstract - Review Quotations). Out Our Way: Gay and Lesbian Life in the Country by Michael Riordon (Abstract). -  The World Out There: Becoming Part of the Lesbian and Gay Community edited by Michael Thomas Ford (Abstract). -  Sister and Brother: Lesbians and Gay Men About Their Lives Together edited by Joan Nestle and John Preston (Abstract). -  Lesbian and Bisexual Identities: Constructing Communities, Constructing Selves by Kristen G. Esterberg  (Review). -  Out in America: A Portrait of Lesbian and Gay Life by Michael Goff and Out Magazine staff (Review). -  Queers in Space: Communities / Public Places / Sites of Resistance Edited by Gordon Brent Ingram, Anne Marie Bouthillette, and Yolanda Retter (Abstract). - Creating a Place For Ourselves: Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Community Histories - 1997 - by Brett Beemyn (Contents). - Queers in Space: Communities / Public Places / Sites of Resistance edited by Gordon Brent Ingram, Anne-Marie Bouthillette, and Yolanda Retter (Abstract).  - Mapping Desire, Geographies of Sexuality. - 1995 - by David Bell, Gill Valentine . - Anti-Gay by Mark Simpson, Ed. (Reviews). (Related Information & About the author and more books by Simpson.) - Pleasure for Pleasure: The Gay Divide & The Pleasure Principle: Sex, Backlash, and the Struggle for Gay Freedom by Michael Bronski (Review). - Proust, Cole Porter, Michelangelo, Marc Almond and Me: Writings by Gay Men on their Lives and Lifestyles - 1993 - The National Lesbian and Gay Survey (Abstract).

Ethnic and Cultural Diversity Among Lesbians and Gay Men: Psychological Perspectives on Lesbian and Gay Issues, Volume 3 edited by Beverly Greene 3 (Abstract). -  Bound by Diversity: Essays, Prose, Photography, and Poetry by Members of the Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, and Transgender Communities edited by James T. Sears (Abstract). -  Plural Desires: Writing Bisexual Women's Realities edited by The Bisexual Anthology Collective (Review).  - Gay Skins: Class, Masculinity and Queer Appropriations - 1996 - by Murray Healy. - Completely Queer: The Gay and Lesbian Encyclopedia - 1999 - by Lee Hudson (Review) (59 Sample Pages). - Gay and Lesbian Cultures in France - 2003 - edited by Lucille Cairns. - Mobile Cultures: New Media in Queer Asia - 2003 - edited by Chris Berry, Fran Martin and Audrey Yue (Review) (Review: HTML, PDF) (Amazon).

Homo Economics: Capitalism, Community and Lesbian and Gay Life edited by Amy Gluckman and Betsy Reed (Abstract).  A Place at the Table : The Gay Individual in American Society - 1994 - by Bruce Bawer (27 Sample Pages). - Fighting Words: An Open Letter to Queers and Radicals - 1995 - by Scott Tucker.  - From camp to queer: remaking the Australian homosexual - 2002 - by Robert Reynolds (Review) (Review: PDF Download). - Lesbian and Gay Culture - 1996 - by Michael Bronski. - Sunshine and Rainbows: Development of Qld Gay and Lesbian Culture - 2001 - by Clive Moore (Abstract).

Cassell's Queer Companion: A Dictionary of Lesbian and Gay Life and Culture by William Stewart (Abstract). -  American Homo: Community and Perversity by Jeffrey Escoffier (Review) (Contents). - Virtually Normal: an argument about homosexuality by Andrew Sullivan (Speech). -  Gay Culture in America : Essays from the Field by Gilbert Herdt and Andrew Boxer. -  Out in America: A Portrait of Lesbian and Gay Life by Michael Goff and Out Magazine staff (Review). - Life Outside - The Signorile Report on Gay Men: Sex, Drugs, Muscles, and the Passages of Life - 1997 - by Michelangelo Signorile.- Positively Gay: New Approaches to Gay and Lesbian Life edited by Betty Berzon (Abstract). -  The Rise and Fall of Gay Culture by Daniel Harris (Review).  - Gay Men at the Millennium edited by Michael Lowenthal (Review). - Getting It on Online: Cyberspace, Gay Male Sexuality, and Embodied Identity - 2004 - by John Edward Campbell (Four Reviews & Author Response).. 

A History of Gay Literature: The Male Tradition by Gregory Woods (Review). -  The Crazy Jig: Gay and Lesbian Writing from Scotland edited by Joanne Winning (Abstract). -  And Thus Will I Freely Sing: An Anthology of Gay and Lesbian Writing from Scotland edited by Toni Davidson (Abstract). -  Footsteps and Witnesses: Lesbian and Gay Lifestories from Scotland, Edinburgh, Great Britain by Bob Cant (Review). -  Gay and Lesbian Characters and Themes in Mystery Novels: A Critical Guide to Over 500 Works in English by Anthony Slide (Abstract).  - Gay and Lesbian Literature edited by Sharon Malinowski (Review).

Inn Places 1997: Worldwide Gay & Lesbian Accommodations Guide, 10th Edition edited by Marianne Ferrari (Abstract). -  Damron Address Book '97: Gay USA, Mexico, Canada, Caribbean edited by Gina M. Gatta (Abstract). - Cassell's Pink Directory: Lesbian and Gay Organizations, Businesses and Services in the UK and Eire edited by Liz Gibbs (Abstract).

The Men of Thailand (6th Edition): Thailand's Culture & Gay Subculture - 1994 - by Eric G. Allyn (Abstract).

Search GLBTQ: The Encyclopedia of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender & Queer Culture. - Search BGLAD. - Search the QRD. - Search all GLBT Resource Directories. - Search Google.com. - Search Google Scholar. - Search Google's G:LBT Directory. - MSN Search. - Search findarticles.com: many full text articles and papers.

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Leslie-Lohman Gay Art Foundation. - Queer Arts Resources. - Queer Art Installation and Performance Art by Frank. - Queer Art by Multimedia Artist Frank Pietronigro. - ArtAIDS. - Queer Art. - Queer Art Blog. - Lesbian/Gay Arts Amsterdam. - Queer Cultural Center. - Queer Music Venues. - Bright Lights Film Journal: Queer Cartoons. - Gay Art Gallery. - Tales of self-destruction: Theater/Midsumma - "Hoome Fatale" and "A Thousand adn One Night Stands" By Barry Lowe, directed by Robert Chuter Midsumma Festival, Theatreworks, 14 Acland St, St Kilda, until February 14, 2004. - Gay Jazz Artists of Distinction. 

Sexual Orientation and Demand for the Arts.: "LGBs are much more likely to attend the arts than demographically similar heterosexuals, but we find little support for three conventional explanations." - Sexual Orientation and Professional Dance: "Dancers estimated that over half of male dancers are gay, but that only a small minority of female dancers are lesbian." - Re-educating Dance Education to its Homosexuality: an invitation for critical analysis and professional unification. - Imminent domain: queer space in the built environment - We're Here: Gay and Lesbian Presence in Art and Art History.

This account of some alternative art forms. - Lesbian Photography and Art. - Queer Skeleton: where queer art and politics are reduced to their bare bones. - Gay Life/Queer Art. - Studies in Drama: Queer Performance Art. - Queer Caucus for Art Newsletter. - Teaching Queer Literature - a bibliography. - Out Takes: Essays on Queer Theory and Film. - Le Festival des Arts du Village (Montreal). - Queer Arts Festival celebrates "Art Activism of a Queer Color" N/A. - Homosexual Art - Same-Sex Art - Queer Art N/A. - Festival International du Film Gay et Lesbien de Grenoble. - Beyond the 'internalist' vs. 'externalist' debate: the local-global identities of African homosexuals in two films, Woubi Che´ri and Dakan.

GCAP: Post-Gay / Ante-Asian - Queer Asian Art. - Queer Art Exhibit. - Theater Offensive. - Lesbian and Gay Music: A record, in both historical documentation and biographical reclamation, of the struggles and sensibilities of homosexual people of the West that came out in their music, and of the [undoubted but unacknowledged] contribution of homosexual men and women to the music profession. In broader terms, a special perspective from which Western music of all kinds can be heard and critiqued.

Gay-positive film list compiles by Frank Swilling. - Postwar Queer Underground Cinema. -  The Ultimate "Planet Out" Guide to Queer Movies indexed by subject and country. - Cinema Q. - Great Gay Cinema: Part 1. - Great Gay Cinema: Part 2: Foreign Films. - A Filmography of Film and Video Titles About Homosexuality and Alternative Sexuality N/A - Gay and Lesbian Studies Filmography.. - Lesbian, Gay And Gender Issues in Films. - Queer Arts. - A Subjective List of Gay Films.- Bright Lights Gay and Lesbian Cinema. - Stonewall and Beyond: Lesbian and Gay Culture. - GLBT ilm Resources. - Queer Cinema Collection. 

Queer Italia: Same-Sex Desire in Italian Literature and Film - 2002 - edited by Gary Cestaro. - Staging Desire: Queer Readings of American Theater History - 2002 - edited by Robert A. Schanke, Kim Marra. - Snapshots of queer youth: a photography exhibit of candid portraits of gay and lesbian young people lives up to its name: "Exuberance!" - Queer eye for art: New reference book comprehensively outlines history of queer art via essays, at-a-glance guides and bios. Casual art fans and hardcore enthusiasts should enjoy it.

Bangkok's Alternative Love Film Festival Raided. Chris Berry interviews Sopawan Boonimitra. - My Queer Korea: Identity, Space, and the 1998 Seoul Queer Film & Video Festival. - From Enter the Dragon to Enter the Mullet: Exploring Filmic Representations of East Asian Butch Dykes by Asian Queer Women Filmmakers in Contemporary Canada (PDF Download). - A Short History of Hentai (PDF Download). - Ethics of RepreseNtATION: Media and the Indian Queer (PDF Download).

Queer (Un)Friendly Film and Television - 2002 - by James R. Kelle. -Where have all the gays gone? After years of inclusion, gay and lesbian characters are pretty much absent from the new fall TV season. Stephen Tropiano, the author of The Prime Time Closet, explains why. - All gay, all the time (Development of television networks for gay community). - Film List / Review: Lesbian, Gay And Gender Issues. - Bright Lights Film Journal: Gay/Lesbian.

Resources: - Gayscape's Art, On-line Galleries. - Queer Film and Other Art. - LGBT Arts Organizations.

Search GLBTQ: The Encyclopedia of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender & Queer Culture. - Search BGLAD. - Search the QRD. - Search all GLBT Resource Directories. - Search Google.com. - Search Google Scholar. - Search Google's G:LBT Directory. - MSN Search. - Search findarticles.com: many full text articles and papers.

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Nelson, Jeffrey A (2001). The Evolution of the Queer German Film. The Review of Communication, 1: 57-63. PDF Download.

Print: - Advocate Magazine: The grande dame of US gay news publications (L.A. National). - XTRA (Toronto) Archive available online. - XY Magazine (Young Males). - Washington Blade Newspaper. - New York Blade. -  Frontiers (SF). - Genre magazine. - Outlooks, Calgary AB. - OUT! Magazine (New Zealand). - Pridelinks.com's Magazine List. -  The QRD's Magazine List. - The Ultimate Listing of Gay and lesbian publications (N > 260) N/A: What happened to The Ultimate Listing of Gay and Lesbian Publications? - Links to GLB publications. - Internet Resources: Newspapers / Journals. - On the Origin of The Body Politic - Gay "journalism": What for? - Q*ink! The Newsletter for Lesbigaytrans Writers & Friends N/A. - Voice for the voiceless: RedBone, a press for LGBT writers of color, rises from the ashes to make a mark in publishing. - When the Politics of Desire Meets the Economics of Skin: The History and Phenomenon of a Filipino Gay Magazine (PDF Download).

Online: - QV Magazine (Gay Latino Culture).-  Seattle Gay News. - Ambush Mag. - Queer Nasty 'Zine. - ScotsGay Magazine. - Links to GLB Online Magazines. -  Lavender Magazine. - Planetout (PNO). - Interracial Voice magazine N/A. - Planet Q. - Sapphrodite. - Pridelink.com's Zine list.- Shout Online: Yorkshire's Queer paper. - The Guide Online: The best in gay travel, entertainment, politics, and sex. - Dallas Voice: gay and lesbian news and entertainment. - Outcast Online. - Knitting Circle Links. - Akiko New Zealand Pink Pages: News. -  BlackLight Magazine. - Screaming Hyena: e-journal of queer writing and review. - Word Is Out: Online journal for gay, lesbian and queer liberation N/A. - Le-National: Archives 1, Archives 2. - Lodestar Quarterly: an online journal of the finest gay, lesbian, and queer literature. - Listing of lesbian magazines. - Yahoo Dorectory:  Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Magazines.

Book Publishers: - Alyson Publications Ltd.  - Leyland/Sunshine Press.   - The Naiad Press. - Gay/Lesbian Publishing Houses.  - Pridelink.com's Book Publishers List.  - The QRD Publisher List.

GLBT Books Lists: - GLBT Literature Resources. - Gay & Lesbian Literature Bibliography Links. - GLBT Books. - Amazon: Gay / Lesbian Books.- Gay/Lesbian Youth Bibliography. - Books for Gay and Lesbian Youth and Teens. - Book on the African-American GLB experience. - Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Materials: Resources for Librarians N/A. - Library Q: The Library Worker's Guide to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Resources N/A. - GLB Reading Club Listing. - Pridelinks.com (Non-Fiction) 

Finalists for the annual Lambda Literary Awards: 2007, 2006 (Winners), 2005 (Winners & Nominees, Must Scroll), 2004 (Winners & Nominees), 2003 (Winners & Nominees), 2002 (Winners & Nominees, Must Scroll), 2001 (Winners & Nominees, Must Scroll), 2000 (Winners) (Winners & Nominees, Must Scroll), Must Scroll), 1999 (Winners & Nominees) (Winners & Nominees, Must Scroll), 1998 (Winners & Nominees, Must Scroll), 1997 (Winners & Nominees, Must Scroll), 1996 (Winners & Nomineesl), 1992-1995 (Winners & Nominees), 1988-1991 (Winners & Nominees). Categories: Anthology - Arts & Culture - Bisexual - Childrens/Young Adult - Drama/Theater - Humor - LGBT Nonfiction - LGBT Studies - Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror - Spirituality - Transgender -- Lesbian Fiction - Lesbian Romance - Lesbian Mystery - Lesbian Poetry - Lesbian Memoir/Biography - Lesbian Erotica - Lesbian Debut Fiction -- Gay Fiction - Gay Romance - Gay Mystery - Gay Poetry - Gay Memoir/Biography - Gay Erotica - Debut Gay Fiction.

Sexual Politics and Queer Publishing.  - Why Mainstream Gay Mags Are Great. - Rainbow Journalism: ...can San Francisco's gay press remain the voice of its community?

Randy Shilts: Withholding information for mainstream journalism acceptability. - Gay Media, Inc.: Media Structures, the New Gay Conglomerates, and Collective Sexual Identities.

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Books: - Unspeakable: the Rise of the Gay and Lesbian Press in America by Rodger Streitmatter (review). (Review) (Review)
 

Some Examples of Using A Radical Perspective: (Must scroll to section "Class, Race, Sex?!") Discusses how gay and lesbian community and its intellectuals have neglected/avoided class issues. - The class-inflected nature of gay identity [Social Problems, 1999, 46(2), 207]. - Coming out of the class closet: socialist gays. - Class divisions in the gay community.

A rough trade:  "If even gay men suffer classism, how then are working-class gays treated within the gay community? When a gay middle or upper class man fucks a working-class man, the act is known as "rough trade". This contemptible label represents a fundamental disrespect which underscores the classist attitudes working-class gay men endure most of the time. Even in a gay community which claims to be united, the working class is seen as undeserving of love and completely disposable. They become fuckable quarry within the gay community, and beatable quarry in the straight community.

Inside/outside: How do class, masculinity, [homo]sexuality and race intersect in and with the prison system? Is prison any sort of solution to crime? David Denborough has the story. "The men and masculinities that are most at risk within these  hierarchies are young men, gay men, transsexuals and the physically weak..." - Class Issue In Reproduction. 

The Ultimate "Planet Out" Guide to Queer Movies (Subject: Class Issues). - Class and ethnicity represent major obstacles in establishing new forms of homosexual encounters N/A... (Sexualities, 2(2), 1999). - ..the "bear" critique of the imagism and classism of gay mainstream culture was compelling stuff. - Could changes in the gay community help more of us live satisfying, healthy lives?

The Crisis of Queer Theory and/in Altman's "Globalism". - Lesbian Class Issues. - Call for Submissions: Everything I Have Is Blue: Short Fiction by Working-Class Men About More-or-Less Gay Life. - Queers once battled against oppressions such as homophobia, violence, and imprisonment but now gays create institutions of classism, racism and sexism. We host these harmful institutions in our communities.

Winter A (2005). Bibliography on Class and Classism. Off Our Backs, Jan/Feb.

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Books: - Queerly Classed: Gay Men and Lesbians Write About Class - 1997 - edited by Susan Raffo (Abstract).  (Abstract)  (Review).  - Thinking Class: Sketches from a Cultural Worker - 1996 - by Joanna Kadi (Amazon).(Coiled Tongues: A Critical Reading of Thinking Class: Sketches from a Cultural Worker by Joanna Kadi. PDF Download) - Gay Skins: Class, Masculinity and Queer Appropriations - 1996 - by Murray Healy. - CALAMUS LOVERS: Walt Whitman's Working-Class Camerados - edited by Charley Shively (Abstract). - Anti-Gay by Mark Simpson, Ed. (Reviews). (Planet Soma Review & Excerpts.) - Working-Class Gay and Bisexual Men - 2001 - edited by George A. Appleby. - Out of the Class Closet: Lesbians Speak - 1994 - edited by Julia Penelope (Review) (Google.com title search).

A Collation of Information related to racism issues: "Racism in Predominantly White Gay and lesbian Communities"

General Resources Page on GLBT People Of Color.

Racism: - Institutionalized Racism Slowing Progress of GLBT Movement - 15th Annual Creating Change Conference Takes Place Nov. 6-10.  The 2002 NGLTF Conference Theme is 'Building an Anti-Racist Movement'.  "Never in the history of our movement has such a large, multi-racial GLBT gathering focused on the impact of racism and the building of an anti-racist movement," said National Gay and      Lesbian Task Force Executive Director Lorri L. Jean.  "Institutionalized racism is one of the most significant factors hindering our success as a movement and if we were unified as a community, we could better pursue and achieve our goals." - Racism and the Gay Community. - Racism in the LGBT community. - Gay Racism in the Castro. - Latinos stage Castro rally against racism: "This racist sentiment is not new, but has actually been around for a long time," he said. "Racism, sexism, ageism, and elitism in our LGBTQ community are alive and well."... Bustos said he felt the evidence of racism in the gay community could also be found in the lack of support to many minority agencies. - Racism at the Bathhouse.

Body vs Race (at the baths and at the gym): Why is it that the gay community considers bone thin young Gay White Men (GWM) an ´Abercrombie and Fitch'type. While at the same time young Gay Asian Men (GAM), with the exact body type, undesirable and worthless? - Rice Queens (aka Potato Queens):  The baths have always been known for it's brutal honesty. It is truly a microcosm of the gay community, where you can see men of all ages, shapes and sizes. Just because everyone is welcomed, doesn't mean that sexual discrimination doesn't take place. I've proven my point about GWM (Gay White Men) wanting to stay completely within their race, both socially and sexually. To them visible minorities are completely worthless, and undesirable, and totally invisible. But bring up the subject of sexual racism to any GWM and they get defensive. It is not sexual 'racism', they say, but a sexual 'preference'. If we used this logic in regards to sexual racism, then we would have to say that all gay men are sexist. Since gay men aren't attracted to women.

San Francisco Gay Community Grapples With Race, Rape: Mark Welsh chokes up as he describes his rape last fall and the word his two assailants kept repeating. "They kept saying ‘faggot' over and over again," said the 51-year-old owner of a video store in the Castro district. "It went on for what seemed like forever."... But — because both Mr. Welsh and another rape victim say their assailants were black — news of their attacks has heightened tensions in a community that for years has been accused of racial exclusion... Still, many blacks say they're made to feel unwelcome in the Castro. "There's an unspoken language, whether you're a black man or woman, that there's no space for you here," said Lisa Williams, a local activist who is black. "When you go to a bar, you get the feeling that the prices are being adjusted. It takes forever to get served, and the wait staff watches you like a hawk."

Queer anarchists take on what they perceive to be the racism, sexism and materialism of the gay establishment. - Outraged & Angry Black Gays Stage Third Day of Demonstrations and Protest Marches Against Alleged White Gay Racism & Marriage for Gays:  The Abe Lincoln Black Republican Caucus (ALBRC), a civic group of young Black gay, bisexual and "down lo" males is conducting the third day of demonstrations and protest marches against alleged White Gay Racism in Dallas, Texas and America. - Moffies behaving badly: Accusations of racism in Green Point's 'gay village' may prompt a Human Rights Commission investigation, the first of its kind in South Africa.

Fear of a Black Lesbian Planet: " "It's the big pink elephant in the middle of the room. Everyone knows it's there — and we quietly tiptoe around it, afraid that even acknowledging its existence would throw off the delicate balance that exists in our pretending it isn't standing there, grazing on our avoidance. If we do choose to look at the elephant's skin, we see that she carries the tattoos of racial division — exclusion, nasty feelings, words, and actions, the unspoken rules of separation. Black lesbians trying to find out who we are both as women of color and as lesbians find the invisible wall we bump up against while trying to find access into the lesbian community even harder to bear... Even when black women do find blatant examples of racism within the lesbian community, just as in the outside world, we often must struggle to begin a dialogue in such a way that we can be heard. "There's no voice for it," says Abrams. "There's not enough language to describe it, and often we're seen as attacking or violent if we do bring it up."

AVP calls for local action to address racism & sexual racism - The AVP marked the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination  (Sunday 21st March 2004) by calling for local GLBT action to address racism  and sexual racism which Co-Convenors Jilll Wood & Greg Adkins said  "excludes people & forces some of our brothers & sisters to be invisible  - almost like forcing them back into a closet all over again" An Open Letter to My White Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Sisters and Brothers Diane Finnerty (2004) - PDF Download. - When an Oppressed Group Becomes the Oppressor: Racism within the Gay Community. - How To Fight Racism in the LGBT Community. - Invisible identities: "I wish this day had existed when I came out. It would have been easier," says Raphaël. "A lot of us feel discriminated against within the LGBT community in Montreal. We don't feel at ease in the Village, where everyone is white. Sometimes you look around and try to find someone like you. It can be lonely." 

LGBTQ Racial Equity Campaign: Extensive research shows that racial inequities persist in every indicator of well-being, including health and wellness, school readiness, economic success and civic participation, among many others. Further, funding for LGBTQ people of color has been woefully inadequate, which profoundly impacts the health of these organizations and, ultimately, the effectiveness of our broader movements for social change. Let’s begin redressing these inequities. - A Different Shade of Queer: Race, Sexuality, and Marginalizing by the Marginalized: "Shared experiences of oppression rarely lead to sympathy for others who are also marginalized, traumatized, and minimized by the dominant society. Rather, all too miserably, those who should naturally join in fighting discrimination find it more comforting to join their oppressors in oppressing others. As a gay man of color, I see this on a routine basis – whether it be racism in the gay community or homophobia in communities of color..." - Being Asian and being Gay: Although there are lots of wonderful queer people out there, I've probably experienced the most racism from the gay community.

Re-historicising 'Racism': As a gay Aboriginal, however, in racist, homophobic Australia, [Wayne] King was doubly marginalised on the basis of both race and sexuality. He experienced racial prejudice from the gay community, and homophobia amongst sections of the Aboriginal community. He recalls being picked up by a gay man in a car, and thrown out again as soon as the man learned he was Aboriginal. Even more hurtful was his discovery of the depth of racial prejudice amongst his gay friends: "Rejected and spurned by society for being homosexual, they had spoken angrily of the discrimination they had to face. Yet they saw nothing wrong in their attitude towards me; saw nothing to condemn in themselves... Those white boys in that room thought that a racist was some yobbo in a blue Chesty Bond singlet, shorts and thongs with a beer can in one hand, the other scratching his balls. The subtlety of racism had escaped them. If you had an education, you couldn't be racist. Terry's racist comment [that the right place for Aborigines was in the bottom of an ash-tray] had tipped the scales for me. Gays may have been outsiders, but as a gay Aborigine, I might as well have been from Mars.""

Crossing the Gay Color Lines: "AfterElton recently spoke to five gay African American men - artists who are fiercely active within their communities - to explore how white gay people and African Americans can better understand each other, and ultimately come together to promote the equality of all people. That journey may begin with uncovering some hard truths... Racism Within the White Gay Community: One thing that all five men agree on is that a major issue that is rarely addressed is not homophobia in communities of color, but racism within the white gay community... Ultimately, Polk believes, the comparisons that gays make between their struggle and the civil-rights movement ring hollow. "The truth of the matter is white gay people don't really care about racist and racial issues," Polk said. "They really don't. There's just as much racism within the gay community as anywhere else. You would think gay people would be less racist, but they're just as much." ... Racism within the white gay community extends beyond not recognizing racism, however, into social arenas. Daniels related a recurring theme with his gay, African American friends: That white gay men were perfectly happy to have sex with them in the dark, but didn't want to be seen with them in public... Polk too, has had similar experiences at clubs. "If I go to a predominantly white gay club, the men just aren't really interested," he said. "I call it the invisible man syndrome." People try to explain their lack of interest by claiming it's "just a preference," but Polk pointed out, "it's not really a preference to exclude an entire group of people based on the color of their skin." ...