Another Mother Tongue
Gay Words, Gay Worlds
Judy Grahn
This celebration of gay culture, is a blend of poetry, legend, autobiography, and etymology is a fascinating account of gay life throughout history. A panoramic and stirring celebration of homosexual culture. Reads like a story, like a letter, like a conversaiton. After 10 years of research and writing the author retrieves the entire suppressed history and gives lesbian culture a mythology, heritage and their own language. Entertaining, rewarding, revolutionary and a landmark. A gay history and autobiography and a book of discovery and celebration of pain and courage, of humor and love. A multi-level historical presentation of gay life, past, present, and future.
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ISBN | 9780807079119 |
Genre | Lesbian Studies |
Publication Date | 31-Oct-90 |
Publisher | Beacon Press |
Format | Trade Paperback |
No. of Pages | 341 |
Language | English |
Rating | NotRated |
Subject | Homosexuality – Miscellanea; Homosexuality – Terminology; Lesbianism – Miscellanea; Lesbians – Miscellanea; Lifestyles – Miscellanea |
BookID | 551 |