ABSTRACT
The initial idea for this collection of essays emerged in April 1997, when forty-three scholars from Cambridge, Massachusetts, to the central coast of California converged at Allegheny College for a conference titled "History and Memory: Gay and Lesbian Literature Since World War II." The impetus for this gathering was a Haworth collection of essays by the same name-then in press, now part of a growing body of work from which twenty-first century-scholars will shape their own narratives about the birth of a "Queer Nation."
