... Toni , ed. Race-ing Justice, En-gendering Power: Essays on Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, and the Construction of Social Reality . New York : Pantheon P , 1992 . Newton Esther . Cherry Grove, Fire Island: Sixty Years in America's First Gay and Lesbian Town . Boston : Beacon P , 1993...

...Teresa de Lauretis Copyright © 1991 by Brown University and differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 1991 Works Cited Bearchell Chris . “ Why I am a gay liberationist: thoughts on sex, freedom, the family and the state .” Resources for Feminist Research/Documentation...

...Ona Nierenberg ONA NIERENBERG A Hunger for Science: Psychoanalysis and the "Gay Gene" The fact of the existence of sexual needs in human beings and animals is expressed in biology by the assumption of a "sexual instinct, " on the analogy of the instinct of nutrition, that is of hunger. Everyday...

... Oscar . The Ballad of Reading Gaol . London : Smithers , 1899 . Wilde Oscar . De Profundis . New York : Philosophical Library , 1950 . Hemingway's Gay Blades ROBERT SCHOLES and NANCY R. COMLEY ~egin with an excerpt from the glossary Hemingway pro- vided for his book...

...Valerie Rohy Addressing the ways in which etiology, the science of causes, has come to dominate discussions of gay and lesbian politics, this essay examines traces of evolutionary theory in recent right-wing rhetoric against gay marriage from such organizations as the Family Research Council...

...Peter Rehberg Beyond parody, gay men’s identification with heteromasculinity, in its dead seriousness, appears to Bersani as being almost mad. In spatial terms, madness marks a proximity to—and not a distance between—powerfully normative images of gender. In his reading of the dynamics of madness...

...Kendall Thomas “Is Black Marriage Queer?” examines what Katherine Franke calls the “queer pairing” of the experiences of formerly enslaved black people and formerly criminalized gay men and lesbians that is at the center of her monograph Wedlocked: The Perils of Marriage Equality. While the book...

... of homosexuality as betraying the seriousness of statements. By examining how the latter betrayal gets enacted in the betrayal his sentences perform, it identifies the tension in Bersani’s work between an explicit resistance to the “de-gaying” he associates with queer theory and the “de-gaying” impulse of his own...

... ahistoricist reading that might too easily subsume him under a twenty-first-century notion of gayness,5 or embrace him as yet another newly discovered homosexual forebear in a triumphalist reading of gay history. I also want to resist...

...Richard Rambuss This essay reflects on Bersani’s sexually explicit, homosexually specific writings about sex from the vantage of sexual positioning, which can itself be thought of as complexly gendered, corporeally and psychically. Whereas gay male sex in the missionary position is the centerpiece...

...Adrian Rifkin This essay argues that Leo Bersani’s immersion in a discipline of reading theoretical and psychoanalytic texts and literature with close critical attention effectively writes out his observations from an epistemology of being gay. His attention to visual materials is similarly acute...

...Emrah Yildiz Since the early 2000s, an increasing number of lgbt + and queer Iranians have sought asylum through the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Turkey. As recent queer and feminist scholarship has demonstrated, a “gay enough” litmus test often determines whether...

..., however, is much more interested in thinking about the ways Bersani mobilizes connections to femininity in “Is the Rectum a Grave?” As Bersani moves from “women and gay men” to “average, law-abiding family” to “being a woman,” femininity haunts, each of these individual nodes further illuminating...

... homosexuality—would mean for thinking sexual justice in the #MeToo moment. Intergenerational sexuality, gay and straight, is indicative of the sheer pervasiveness and normalcy of the entanglement of sex and power across Euro-North America, an entanglement that feminists invested in sexual justice must address...

...Tomás Almaguer Copyright © 1991 by Brown University and differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 1991 Works Cited Adam Barry D. “ Homosexuality without a Gay World: Pasivos y Activos en Nicaragua .” Out/Look 1 . 4 ( 1989 ): 74 - 82 . Alarcón Norma...

...Judith Butler Copyright © 1994 by Brown University and differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 1994 Works Cited Abelove Henry , Barale Michele Aina , and Halperin David M. , eds. The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader . New York : Routledge , 1993...

...: A Black Gay Anthology . Boston : Alyson , 1986 . Boone Bruce . “ Gay Language as Political Praxis: The Poetry of Frank O'Hara .” Social Text 1 . 1 ( 1980 ): 59 - 63 . Brooks Peter . Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative . New York : Knopf , 1984...

... at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism . New York: Basic, 1992 . Berube, Allan. Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War Two . New York: Plume, 1990 . Bickle, Alexander. The Least Dangerous Branch: The Supreme at the Bar of Politics . New York: Bobbs-Merrill...