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).
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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