ABSTRACT

The Reader's Guide to Lesbian and Gay Studies surveys the field in some 470 entries on individuals (Adrienne Rich); arts and cultural studies (Dance); ethics, religion, and philosophical issues (Monastic Traditions); historical figures, periods, and ideas (Germany between the World Wars); language, literature, and communication (British Drama); law and politics (Child Custody); medicine and biological sciences (Health and Illness); and psychology, social sciences, and education (Kinsey Report).

letter |68 pages

A

entry |2 pages

Academicians

entry |2 pages

Act-Up

entry |4 pages

Adolescent Peer Relations

entry |2 pages

Adoption and Foster Parenting

entry |2 pages

Aestheticism

entry |2 pages

Affirmative Action

entry |3 pages

Africa

entry |2 pages

African American Cultural Visibility

entry |3 pages

African American History and Politics

entry |2 pages

African American Lesbian and Gay Identities

entry |3 pages

African American Literature

entry |2 pages

African American Poetry

entry |1 pages

African American Religion

entry |2 pages

Aging: Gay Men

entry |3 pages

Aging: Lesbians

entry |5 pages

AIDS: Community Effects

entry |2 pages

AIDS: Cultural Effects

entry |2 pages

AIDS: Demographics

entry |2 pages

AIDS: Drama and Performance Art

entry |2 pages

AIDS: Education

entry |3 pages

AIDS: Law

entry |5 pages

AIDS: Literature

entry |3 pages

AIDS: Politics and Public Policy

entry |2 pages

Alcohol and Drug Use

entry |4 pages

Alighieri, Dante 1265–1321

entry |2 pages

Amazons

entry |2 pages

Androgyny

entry |2 pages

Animal Homosexuality

entry |3 pages

Anonymous Sex

entry |2 pages

Anthropology

entry |2 pages

Arab Cultures

entry |2 pages

Archives, Institutes, Libraries, and History Projects

entry |2 pages

Aristotle 384–322 B.C.E.

entry |2 pages

Art: Female Homoerotic Themes

entry |3 pages

Art: Male Homoerotic Themes

entry |2 pages

Art History

entry |2 pages

Asia: Culture

entry |3 pages

Asia: Religion

entry |2 pages

Asian Pacific American Culture

entry |2 pages

Auden, W.H. 1907–1973

entry |2 pages

Augustine 354–430

entry |3 pages

Australia: History and Politics

entry |2 pages

Australia: Law

entry |2 pages

Australia: Literature

letter |36 pages

B

entry |2 pages

Bacon, Francis 1561–1626

entry |2 pages

Baldwin, James 1924–1987

entry |3 pages

Bannon, Ann 1932-

entry |2 pages

Barnes, Djuna 1892–1982

entry |2 pages

Barney, Natalie Clifford 1876–1972

entry |3 pages

Bars

entry |2 pages

Barthes, Roland 1915–1980

entry |3 pages

Bathhouses

entry |2 pages

Bear Culture

entry |2 pages

Beat Movement and Writers

entry |2 pages

Bible: Contemporary Christian Scholarly Treatments

entry |2 pages

Bible: Contemporary Jewish Scholarly Treatments

entry |3 pages

Biological Studies of Homosexuality

entry |2 pages

Bisexuality: Politics

entry |2 pages

Bisexuality: Psychology

entry |3 pages

Bisexuality: Sociology

entry |2 pages

Bloomsbury Group

entry |3 pages

Bondage

entry |2 pages

Boston Marriages

entry |2 pages

Boswell, John 1947–1994

entry |2 pages

Bowers v. Hardwick

entry |2 pages

Breast Cancer and Lesbians

entry |2 pages

Broadway Musicals

entry |2 pages

Brossard, Nicole 1943—

entry |2 pages

Buddhism

entry |1 pages

Buonarroti, Michelangelo

entry |2 pages

Burroughs, William S. 1914–1997

entry |2 pages

Byron, Lord George Gordon 1788–1824

letter |75 pages

C

entry |2 pages

Cadmus, Paul 1904–1999

entry |3 pages

Camp

entry |2 pages

Canada: History and Politics

entry |3 pages

Canada: Law

entry |2 pages

Canada: Gay Male Literature

entry |2 pages

Canada: Lesbian Literature

entry |2 pages

Capote, Truman 1924–1984

entry |3 pages

Career Development

entry |3 pages

Carpenter, Edward 1844–1929

entry |2 pages

Cather, Willa 1873–1947

entry |2 pages

Causal Theories of Homosexuality

entry |2 pages

Cavafy, Constantine 1863–1933

entry |2 pages

Censorship and Obscenity

entry |2 pages

Chicana/o Latina/o Culture

entry |3 pages

Child Custody

entry |2 pages

Child Molestation

entry |2 pages

Children's Books and Stories

entry |3 pages

Child Sexual Abuse History

entry |2 pages

China

entry |2 pages

Christianity: Catholicism

entry |3 pages

Christianity: Contemporary

entry |2 pages

Christianity: Monastic Traditions

entry |2 pages

Christianity: Protestantism

entry |2 pages

Civil Rights Movement

entry |2 pages

Clergy and Religious

entry |2 pages

Closet

entry |2 pages

Clothing: Overview

entry |3 pages

Clothing: Gay Male

entry |3 pages

Clothing: Lesbian

entry |3 pages

Cocteau, Jean 1889–1963

entry |2 pages

Colette, Sidonie-Gabrielle 1873–1954

entry |2 pages

Colonialism and Sexuality

entry |2 pages

Coming Out: Psychology

entry |2 pages

Coming Out: Stories

entry |2 pages

Communism and Homosexuality

entry |3 pages

Community: General Theory

entry |2 pages

Community: Gay Male

entry |2 pages

Community: Lesbian

entry |3 pages

Congregations, Lesbian and Gay

entry |3 pages

Counseling: Gay Men

entry |2 pages

Counseling: Lesbians

entry |3 pages

Counseling: Youth

entry |2 pages

Crimes by Lesbians and Gay Men

entry |3 pages

Criminal Justice

entry |3 pages

Critiques of Lesbian and Gay Cultures

entry |2 pages

Cruising

entry |2 pages

Cultural Geography

entry |3 pages

Cultural History: Gay Male

entry |2 pages

Cultural History: Lesbian

entry |3 pages

Cultural Studies

letter |13 pages

D

entry |3 pages

Dance

entry |3 pages

Diaghilev, Sergey 1872–1929

entry |2 pages

Dickinson, Emily 1830–1886

entry |2 pages

Disabilities

entry |3 pages

Discrimination

entry |2 pages

Domestic Labor, Division of

entry |2 pages

Domestic Violence

entry |2 pages

Drama

letter |17 pages

E

entry |2 pages

Education: Primary and Secondary

entry |3 pages

Education: College and University

entry |2 pages

Egypt, Ancient

entry |2 pages

Ellis, Havelock 1859–1939

entry |3 pages

Employment

entry |2 pages

Equality

entry |2 pages

Ethical Analysis of Homosexuality

entry |2 pages

Ethics and Philosophy: Gay Male

entry |2 pages

Ethics and Philosophy: Lesbian

entry |2 pages

Eugenics and Homosexuality

entry |3 pages

European Law

entry |2 pages

Ex-Gay Ministries

letter |24 pages

F

entry |2 pages

Family Relationships

entry |3 pages

Fassbinder, Rainer Werner 1946–1982

entry |2 pages

Feminism

entry |2 pages

Film: Comedy

entry |3 pages

Film: Drama

entry |2 pages

Film: History

entry |2 pages

Folklore

entry |3 pages

Forster, E.M. 1879–1970

entry |3 pages

Foucault, Michel 1926–1984

entry |2 pages

France: Early Modern

entry |2 pages

France: History and Politics

entry |3 pages

France: Law

entry |4 pages

France: Literature

entry |2 pages

Freud, Sigmund 1856–1939

entry |3 pages

Friendship

letter |25 pages

G

entry |2 pages

Ganymede Legend

entry |3 pages

Gay Liberation

entry |4 pages

Gender Identity

entry |2 pages

Gender Roles: Overview

entry |3 pages

Gender Roles: Butch/Femme

entry |2 pages

Gender Theory

entry |3 pages

Genet, Jean 1910–1986

entry |2 pages

Germany: History, Politics, and Law

entry |2 pages

Germany: 19th-century Homosexual Rights Movement

entry |3 pages

Germany: Between World Wars

entry |2 pages

Gide, André 1869–1951

entry |3 pages

Ginsberg, Allen 1926–1997

entry |3 pages

Greece: Classical Culture and Literature

entry |4 pages

Greece: Classical Views of Homosexuality

letter |31 pages

H

entry |2 pages

Hadrian 76–138 C.E.

entry |3 pages

Hall, Radclyffe 1883–1943

entry |2 pages

Harlem

entry |4 pages

Hate Crimes

entry |2 pages

Hate Speech Codes

entry |2 pages

Hawaii: Same-Sex Marriage Litigation

entry |2 pages

Hay, Harry 1912-

entry |2 pages

Health and Illness: Adolescents

entry |3 pages

Health and Illness: Gay Men

entry |2 pages

Health and Illness: Lesbian

entry |2 pages

Hemingway, Ernest 1899–1961

entry |2 pages

Heterosexism

entry |2 pages

Hijras

entry |2 pages

Hinduism

entry |3 pages

Hirschfeld, Magnus 1868–1935

entry |2 pages

Hockney, David 1937-

entry |2 pages

Homophile Movements in the United States

entry |3 pages

Homophobia

entry |2 pages

Homophobia, Internalized

entry |2 pages

Homosociality

entry |3 pages

Hooker, Evelyn 1907–1996

entry |2 pages

Human Rights

letter |18 pages

I

entry |3 pages

Identity: Gay Male

entry |3 pages

Identity: Lesbian

entry |2 pages

Immigration: Asylum

entry |2 pages

Immigration: Law and Policy

entry |4 pages

India

entry |2 pages

Inquisition

entry |3 pages

Ireland: History, Politics, and Law

entry |2 pages

Ireland: Literature

entry |2 pages

Isherwood, Christopher 1904–1986

entry |3 pages

Islam

entry |2 pages

Islamic Law and Culture

letter |12 pages

J

entry |2 pages

James, Henry 1843–1916

entry |2 pages

James I (James Stuart) 1566–1625

entry |3 pages

Japan: Ancient

entry |2 pages

Japan: Contemporary

entry |2 pages

Jonathan and David

entry |3 pages

Journalism

entry |2 pages

Judaism

entry |2 pages

Judaism: Lesbians

entry |2 pages

Juvenal 55 or 60–c.127 C.E.

letter |7 pages

K

entry |2 pages

Kertbeny, Karl Maria 1824–1882

entry |2 pages

Kowalski, Sharon 1956-

entry |2 pages

Krafft-Ebing, Richard von 1840–1902

entry |3 pages

Kramer, Larry 1935-

entry |2 pages

Kushner, Tony 1956-

letter |36 pages

L

entry |2 pages

Labeling Theory

entry |3 pages

Ladies of Llangollen

entry |2 pages

Latin America: History and Politics

entry |2 pages

Latin America: Literature

entry |2 pages

Law: Constitutional

entry |2 pages

Law: Criminal

entry |2 pages

Law: Employment

entry |3 pages

Law: Family

entry |2 pages

Law: Homosexual Panic Defenses

entry |2 pages

Law: International

entry |2 pages

Lawrence, D.H. 1885–1930

entry |3 pages

Lawrence, T.E. 1888–1935

entry |2 pages

Leather Culture

entry |3 pages

Legal Guides

entry |2 pages

Leisure

entry |3 pages

Lesbian Culture

entry |2 pages

Lesbian/Gay/Queer Studies

entry |3 pages

Lesbian Invisibility

entry |3 pages

Libraries, Censorship Controversies in

entry |2 pages

Literary Representations of Lesbians and Gay Men

entry |3 pages

Literary Theory

entry |2 pages

London

entry |2 pages

Lorde, Audre 1934–1992

entry |3 pages

Love

entry |2 pages

Lowell, Amy 1874–1925

letter |40 pages

M

entry |2 pages

Mackay, John Henry 1864–1933

entry |3 pages

Mapplethorpe, Robert 1946–1989

entry |1 pages

Marketing Practices

entry |3 pages

Marriage: Domestic Partnership as a Substitute

entry |2 pages

Marriage: Legal Aspects

entry |2 pages

Marriage: Same-Sex

entry |3 pages

Marriage: Theological Aspects

entry |2 pages

Mattachine Society

entry |2 pages

Maugham, W. Somerset 1874–1965

entry |2 pages

McCarthyism

entry |3 pages

McCullers, Carson 1917–1967

entry |2 pages

Media Representations of Lesbians and Gay Men

entry |2 pages

Medicine

entry |3 pages

Medieval History

entry |2 pages

Melville, Herman 1819–1891

entry |3 pages

Memoirs: Female

entry |2 pages

Memoirs: Male

entry |3 pages

Men's Movement

entry |2 pages

Michelangelo (Buonarroti) 1475–1564

entry |3 pages

Military: Overview

entry |2 pages

Military: Practices

entry |3 pages

Milk, Harvey 1930–1978

entry |2 pages

Minorities

entry |2 pages

Music: Classical

entry |2 pages

Music: Opera

entry |2 pages

Music: Popular

entry |2 pages

Music Festivals, Women's

entry |2 pages

Mystery and Detective Fiction: Gay Male

entry |2 pages

Mystery and Detective Fiction: Lesbian

entry |2 pages

Mythology, Classical Western

letter |13 pages

N

entry |2 pages

NAMES Project

entry |3 pages

National Endowment for the Arts

entry |2 pages

Native American Cultures

entry |2 pages

Native American Spirituality

entry |3 pages

Natural Law

entry |2 pages

Nazi Attitudes and Policies

entry |3 pages

Netherlands, The

entry |2 pages

New York

entry |2 pages

Nursing

letter |10 pages

O

entry |2 pages

O'Hara, Frank 1926–1966

entry |2 pages

Oppression

entry |3 pages

Oral Histories

entry |2 pages

Orton, Joe 1933–1967

entry |3 pages

Outing

entry |3 pages

Owen, Wilfred 1893–1918

letter |54 pages

P

entry |2 pages

Pacific Cultures

entry |3 pages

Painting, Homoerotic Themes in

entry |2 pages

Paranoia

entry |4 pages

Parenting

entry |3 pages

Paris

entry |2 pages

Pasolini, Pier Paolo 1922–1975

entry |3 pages

Pedophilia

entry |2 pages

Performativity and Performance

entry |2 pages

Philosophy and Homosexuality

entry |2 pages

Photography: Overview

entry |2 pages

Photography: Female

entry |3 pages

Photography: Male

entry |3 pages

Pink Triangle

entry |2 pages

Pleasure

entry |2 pages

Politics: Overview

entry |4 pages

Politics: Antigay

entry |2 pages

Politics: Conservative

entry |2 pages

Politics: Electoral Strategies

entry |3 pages

Politics: Lesbian, Gay, and Queer Movements

entry |2 pages

Politics: Liberal

entry |2 pages

Popular Culture

entry |3 pages

Pornography: Female

entry |2 pages

Pornography: Male

entry |2 pages

Prisons

entry |3 pages

Privacy

entry |2 pages

Promiscuity

entry |3 pages

Prostitution

entry |3 pages

Proust, Marcel 1871–1922

entry |3 pages

Psychological Development

entry |2 pages

Psychological Health

entry |5 pages

Psychology

entry |2 pages

Public Sex

letter |7 pages

Q

entry |2 pages

Queer Identity

entry |4 pages

Queer Studies

entry |3 pages

Queer Theory

letter |28 pages

R

entry |2 pages

Radical Faeries

entry |2 pages

Rape

entry |2 pages

Relationships among Gay Men

entry |3 pages

Relationships among Lesbians

entry |2 pages

Renaissance History

entry |3 pages

Renault, Mary 1905–1983

entry |3 pages

Reproductive Rights

entry |3 pages

Rich, Adrienne 1929-

entry |2 pages

Rimbaud, Arthur 1854–1891

entry |2 pages

Röhm, Ernst 1887–1934

entry |3 pages

Roman Emperors

entry |2 pages

Roman Empire

entry |4 pages

Roman Literature

entry |3 pages

Romantic Friendships in Literature

entry |2 pages

Romanticism

entry |2 pages

Romer v. Evans

entry |2 pages

Roosevelt, Eleanor 1884–1962

entry |2 pages

Rural Life

entry |2 pages

Russia and the Former Soviet Union

letter |53 pages

S

entry |2 pages

Sade, Donatien-Alphonse-François, Marquis de 1740–1814

entry |2 pages

Sadomasochism

entry |3 pages

Safe Sex

entry |2 pages

San Francisco

entry |2 pages

Sappho c.610-c.580 B.C.E.

entry |2 pages

Sarton, May 1912–1995

entry |2 pages

Sartre, Jean-Paul 1905–1980

entry |3 pages

Sculpture: Homoerotic Themes

entry |2 pages

Sexism

entry |4 pages

Sexual Morality

entry |2 pages

Sexual Orientation: Biological Theories

entry |2 pages

Sexual Orientation: Gender Identity Disorders

entry |3 pages

Sexual Orientation: Genetic Aspects

entry |2 pages

Sexual Orientation: Identity Controversies

entry |3 pages

Sexual Orientation: Psychological Accounts

entry |3 pages

Sexual Orientation: Therapy

entry |3 pages

Sexual Practices: Female

entry |3 pages

Sexual Practices: Male

entry |2 pages

Sexual Revolution

entry |3 pages

Shakespeare, William 1564–1616

entry |2 pages

Social Constructionist and Essentialist Theories

entry |2 pages

Social Work

entry |2 pages

Sociobiology

entry |2 pages

Sociology: Contemporary Debates and Controversies

entry |2 pages

Sociology: Historical Debates and Controversies

entry |2 pages

Sodom and Gomorrah

entry |2 pages

Sodomy: History

entry |3 pages

Sodomy: Lesbian Aspects

entry |2 pages

Sodomy: U.S. Laws and Politics

entry |2 pages

Spender, Stephen 1909-

entry |3 pages

Spirituality

entry |2 pages

Sports: Female

entry |2 pages

Sports: Male

entry |2 pages

Sports: Gay Male Figures

entry |2 pages

Sports: Lesbian Figures

entry |3 pages

Stein, Gertrude 1874–1946

entry |2 pages

Stonewall

entry |3 pages

Suicide

letter |20 pages

T

entry |2 pages

Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilich 1840–1983

entry |3 pages

Teachers

entry |2 pages

Television: Representations of Lesbians and Gay Men

entry |2 pages

Thailand

entry |2 pages

Theology

entry |2 pages

Third-Sex Accounts of Homosexuality

entry |2 pages

Transsexualism/Transgenderism: Autobiography

entry |4 pages

Transsexualism/Transgenderism: History and Politics

entry |4 pages

Transsexualism/Transgenderism: Psychological Accounts

entry |3 pages

Transvestism

entry |2 pages

Turing, Alan Mathison 1912–1954

entry |2 pages

Twin Studies

letter |26 pages

U

entry |2 pages

Ulrichs, Karl Heinrich 1825–1895

entry |3 pages

United Kingdom: History and Politics

entry |3 pages

United Kingdom: Law

entry |2 pages

United Kingdom: Drama

entry |3 pages

United Kingdom: Gay Male Fiction

entry |2 pages

United Kingdom: Lesbian Fiction

entry |2 pages

United Kingdom: Poetry

entry |2 pages

United Nations

entry |3 pages

United States: History and Politics

entry |2 pages

United States: Judicial History

entry |3 pages

United States: Law

entry |2 pages

United States: Drama

entry |3 pages

United States: Gay Male Fiction

entry |2 pages

United States: Lesbian Fiction

entry |3 pages

United States: Poetry

entry |2 pages

Urban History

entry |3 pages

Utopian Literature

letter |7 pages

V

entry |2 pages

Video Art

entry |3 pages

Vinci, Leonardo da 1452–1519

entry |2 pages

Violence against Lesbians and Gay Men

entry |2 pages

Violence by Lesbians and Gay Men

entry |2 pages

Vivien, Renée 1877–1909

letter |18 pages

W

entry |2 pages

Warhol, Andy 1927?–1987

entry |2 pages

White, Edmund 1940–

entry |3 pages

Whitman, Walt 1819–1892

entry |4 pages

Wilde, Oscar 1854–1900

entry |2 pages

Williams, Tennessee 1911–1983

entry |3 pages

Wittgenstein, Ludwig 1889–1951

entry |3 pages

Wolfenden Report

entry |2 pages

Women's Colleges

entry |2 pages

Workplace Culture

entry |3 pages

World War II, Cultural Effects of