...John D'Emilio Copyright © 2015 Regents of the University of Colorado 2015 DO W E NEED ANOTHER HERO? Keynote Address a t th e H a rry Hay C e n te n n ia l C o n feren ce C e n te r f o r Lesbian and Gay Studies, C ity U n iv e rs ity o f New Y o r k S e p t e m b e r , 29 2012 J o h n D E m...

...Joanna Fax Copyright © 2015 Regents of the University of Colorado 2015 T he D eregulated Lesbian: A ffec tive Labor in Postw ar P u lp J o a n n a Fax Introduction D eregulation, a w e ll-k n o w n catchphrase in neoliberal e conom ic policy, is not a term com m only associated w ith sexual...

... literary queer space when, as a grad­ uate student at Berkeley in the late eighties, I was reading Virginia W oolfs A Room of One's Own w ith in the context o f a fem inist theory class and came upon the references to Chloe and O livia the friends, colleagues, and perhaps closeted lesbians w ho share...

... because she asserts that M y Brother rhetorically queers the characters' lived experi­ ences, the terrains o f a Chicago bookstore, and Kincaid's own homeland o f Antigua through Kincaid's narration of a lesbian woman's com ing-out story.6 To further unfold these politically and sexually codified terrains...

... nected, p rofessionally and personally, w ith d isa b ility co m m u n itie s and lesbian fe m in ist com m unities. I w rite also as a lesbian fe m in ist o f a certain age, w h o lived w ith and through the radical lesbian theories specific to the United States in the 1970s, as epitom ized by M ary...

... as phallic/castrating wom an and as lesbian at the height of first cine-feminism's then queer film theory's feeding frenzy, despite this enduring figure's unmistakable bisexual significations. The vampire's relocation of the pri­ m ary erogenous zone from the sex-differentiated genitals to the sex...

... of the virtual, emphasizing the potential of art to "create rooms fo r us, the dispossessed,"3 her w ork presents alternatives for thinking about "queer space" as som e­ thing more than real estate, more than the built environm ent, more than urban enclaves where gay men (and sometimes lesbians!) congregate fo r...

... to do so w o u ld constitute a significant m isreading of the project at hand. Instead, Hanhardt interrogates the way the specter of racialized urban violence informed how post-Stonewall gay liberationists, liberals, and radical lesbian feminists articulated their understandings of non-heteronormative...

... of several volumes of literary criticism, including Virginia Woolf: Lesbian Readings. B o bby B e n e d ic to is a PhD candidate in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne. He holds an MA in Political Science from York University inToronto, Canada, and has lectured...

... blues as a "queer space" is the candid and often shockingly straightforward recognition of lesbian and gay sexual desire that both male and female singers expressed. In fact, the sexually free-wheeling blues lyrics were one of the few spaces in which homosexual desires and transgender identities could...

...Martha Vicinus Copyright © 2007 Regents of the University of Colorado 2007 Q u e e r D if f e r e n c e s M a r th a V icinus T he initial reaction of a fem inist lesbian reading the firs t half of Matt Houlbrook's im portant book m ight be "N o w I understand w hy gay male history...

... a lis t in W uhan w ro te : "as a lesbian [n ü to n g zh i], I feel th a t lesbians [n ü to n g ] the w o rld ove r are as one; as a tongzhi, I feel th a t ton gzhi the w o rld ove r (regardless o f w h e th e r m a le o r fem ale) are as one." A fifteen-year-old stu d e n t inT aipei to ld me: "even th...

... others that are central to Left scholar­ ship (Lenin, Mao, Beauvoir, Claudia Jones, most US Communists). And while there exists a vibrant subfield of lesbian, gay, and queer Left historiography, cultural criticism, and th e o ry , the re has ye t to be a f o c u s e d d is c u s s io n o f w h a t th...

... against Marin Alsop ( “I’m Offended” ) by arguing (somewhat implausibly) that “power is genderless” ( Chilton, “ Tár Star Cate Blanchett” ). Works Cited Alsop Marin . “ I’m Offended by Tár as a Woman, as a Conductor, as a Lesbian .” Sunday Times , January 8 , 2023 . Brown Anna...

... and wom en and their supposedly louche haunts, especially the gay bar or café.1 Chauncey concerns him self prim arily w ith the gay subculture o f NewYork City; he tells us, however, that "Paris and Berlin hosted gay and lesbian subcultures even larger than New York's in the early twentieth century."2...

... Ogilvy Finds H erself" a template, she w ould later acknowledge, for w hat is often described as the classic lesbian novel, The Well of Loneliness (1928).2 Like The Well's protagonist Stephen Gordon, Miss Ogilvy too thrills in driving an ambulance near the frontlines during the First W orld War. Basing...

..., and eccentric economic practices" (1 ). Her theoretical position here, however, does not com m it the sin of essentialism; indeed, she continually insists that queer subcultural practices have "clear but not essential relations to gay and lesbian subjects" (6). So, instead of recapitulating the alleged­ ly...

... liberation. I have a personal co nnection to this discussion because of m y ow n intim ate in v o lv e m e n t in the party and m y years suppressing lesbian desire. I was a m em ber of the US Com m unist Party from 1962-1981. M y parents, Herbert and Fay Aptheker, were pro m in e n t m em b e rs...

... to present this interview with Professor Wald, whose work has helped to pave the way for the study of gay and lesbian literary radicals. W illia m J. M axw ell, p ro fe sso r o f English and African A m e rican studies at W a sh in g ton U n iv e rs ity in St. Louis, is th e a u th o r o f th e a w a rd - w...

...—it also anticipates formations within the queer liberationist politics of the decades that followed. Copyright © 2021 Regents of the University of Colorado 2021 2 George Chauncey has marked this period as one in which “gay men and lesbians began to seem less amusing than dangerous,” no longer...