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The influence of gays and lesbians on language, literature, theater, poetry, dance, music, and the arts is unmeasurable. In the era before AIDS, gay and lesbian culture had a defining, if unrecognized, influence on American life, an influence that is only now being acknowledged. This reissue of the classic anthology, Lavender Culture, serves as a provocative, dynamic, and wide-ranging reminder of American gay and lesbian culture in the days before the status of gay people received widespread attention in the media, religion, and politics, before Newsweek saw it fit to feature a cover story on LESBIANS, and before gays and lesbians took center stage in America's cultural landscape. Here we find the young, assertive voices of such activists, authors, and artists as Rita Mae Brown, Barbara Grier, John Stoltenberg, Julia Penelope, Andrea Dworkin, Andrew Kopkind, Jane Rule, Arthur Bell, Charlotte Bunche, and dozens more. Including essays on such diverse subjects as gay bath houses, the gay male image in classical ballet, images of gays in rock music, Judy Garland, lesbian humor, sports and machismo, the growing business of women's music, and the Cleveland bar scene in the 1940s, Lavender Culture, with new introductory essays by the editors and Cindy Patton, offers a panoply of gay and lesbian life, tracing the current influence and visibility of gay and lesbian culture back to its origins.
Foreword to the new editionIntroduction to the new editionIntroduction to the new editionNo Longer the Court Jesters23No Man's Land48Queen for a Day: A Stranger in Paradise69The Bath Life Gets Respectability77Forum on Sado-Masochism85Phantasy Revolution118Sexual Anarchy135Why I'm Not Dancing140The Cleveland Bar Scene in the Forties146Missing the Ports O Call150Toeing the Line: In Search of the Gay Male Image in Contemporary Classical Ballet157Dance Liberation171Images of Gays in Rock Music182The Growing Business Behind Women's Music195Judy Garland and Others: Notes on Idolization and Derision201Closets in the Museum: Homophobia and Art History215Weaving a Whole Life228Gay Theatre: Gays in the Marketplace vs. Gays for Themselves230Gay Theatre in the "Real World"246The X-Rated Bibliographer: A Spy in the House of Sex257Some Pulp Sappho262The Poetry of Male Love275Lesbian-Feminist Comedy: Dyke Humor out of the Closet295Mother Wit: Tongue in Cheek299A Queer by any Other Name Would Smell as Sweet308Memoirs of a Lesbian's Lesbian Daughter315Growing Up Gay: Where Were You in '62325I Was the Dyke at My High School Reunion332Gay Youth and The Question of Consent342The Boys in the Barracks367Sports and the Macho Male385The Politics of Dress396A Letter to M405Neither Profit nor Salvation412Grandmothers421Aging is a State of Mind424Learning from Lesbian Separatism433A Question of Culture: Mirror Without Image445A Journey to the End of Meetings452Blacks and Gay Liberation458Three for the Price of One: Notes from a Gay Black Feminist466Practical Economics for a Women's Community477Second Five-Year Plan484Permissions493
