Posted in LGBT Studies/Social Sciences

We’ve Been Here All Along by R. Richard Wagner

R. Richard Wagner | We’ve Been Here All Along | The first of two groundbreaking volumes on gay history in Wisconsin. We’ve Been Here All Along provides an illuminating and nuanced picture of Wiscons

Posted in LGBT Studies/Social Sciences Parenting & Families

Not in This Family by Heather Murray

Heather Murray | Not in This Family | Many Americans hold fast to the notion that gay men and women, more often that not, have been ostracized from disapproving families. Not in This Famil

Posted in LGBT Studies/Social Sciences

The Closet And the Cul-De-Sac by Howard Clayton

Howard Clayton | The Closet And the Cul-De-Sac | The right to privacy is a pivotal concept in the culture wars that have galvanized American politics for the past several decades. It has become a ral

Posted in Anthology - Nonfiction Lesbian Studies

Closer To Home by Elizabeth Reba Weise

Elizabeth Reba Weise | Closer To Home | In this dynamic anthology of 22 essays by and about women who are bisexual, the unifying element is its focus on the crucial intersections between ide

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Coming Out Lesbian Studies

Her Neighbor’s Wife by Lauren Jae Gutterman

Lauren Jae Gutterman | Her Neighbor’s Wife | At first glance, Barbara Kalish fit the stereotype of a 1950s wife and mother. Married at eighteen, Barbara lived with her husband and two daughters i

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Poetry

Katharine Lee Bates by Melinda M. Ponder

Melinda M. Ponder | Katharine Lee Bates | Katharine Lee Bates’s ‘America the Beautiful’ resonates for many people as the most patriotic and beloved American anthem. Her words remind us of why

Posted in Award Winner Literary Criticism

Really Reading Gertrude Stein by Gertrude Stein; Judy Grahn

Gertrude Stein; Judy Grahn | Really Reading Gertrude Stein | This book is organized into three sections, each beginning with an essay that clarifies the following selections, usually in excerpted form, from Stei

Posted in Poetry

Hanging on Our Own Bones by Judy Grahn

Judy Grahn | Hanging on Our Own Bones | Through these seven narrative poems, Grahn weaves real-life conditions with goddess mythology to construct modern interpretations of lamentation in ni

Posted in Literary Criticism Poetry

The Highest Apple by Judy Grahn

Judy Grahn | The Highest Apple | An exploration of lesbian poetry.

Posted in Sports

Out of Play by Michael A. Messner

Michael A. Messner | Out of Play | From beer ads in the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue to four-year-old boys and girls playing soccer; from male athletes’ sexual violence against wom