ABSTRACT

This book of nineteen original essays by activists and academics documents and analyses the dramatic changes in lesbian and gay experience over the last twenty years. It charts the growth of lesbian and gay studies, and examines key issues around communitites, identities, relationships, sexualities and politics. These essays, edited by a leading author in the field, herald a new confidence and maturity for the growing field of lesbian and gay studies.

part |25 pages

Introduction

chapter |23 pages

Speaking its Name

Inventing a lesbian and gay studies

part |33 pages

Constructing Communities and Identities

chapter |12 pages

The Company of Friends and Lovers

Lesbian communities in the Netherlands

chapter |10 pages

Coming Out

Lesbian identities and the categorization problem

part |63 pages

Creating New Relationships

chapter |11 pages

Loves, Sexualities, and Marriages

Strategies and adjustments

chapter |10 pages

Daring to Pretend?

Motherhood and lesbianism

chapter |13 pages

That'S What Friends are for

Friends as family in the gay and lesbian community1

chapter |13 pages

A Cocktail of Alarm

Same-sex couples and migration to Australia 1985–90

chapter |14 pages

Report from a Rotten State

‘Marriage' and ‘homosexuality’ in ‘Denmark’

part |35 pages

Transcending Aids

chapter |9 pages

The Aids Dialectics

Awareness, identity, death, and sexual politics

chapter |9 pages

Sex and Caring Among Men

Impacts of AIDS on gay people1

part |29 pages

Shifting Sexualities

chapter |14 pages

Resisting the Erasure of Lesbian Sexuality

A challenge for queer activism

part |33 pages

Making the Future

chapter |10 pages

Abseil Makes the Heart Grow Fonder

Lesbian and gay campaigning tactics and Section 28

chapter |11 pages

Equal Rights for All

Strategies for lesbian and gay equality in Britain