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11/01/2009 

Autobiography: Transgender and Transsexual
 
For the last 75 years, transgender and transsexual autobiographies have told the stories of their authors' lives and appealed for greater acceptance of transgender people.
 
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10/01/2009 

Public Scandals
 
The stories of public scandals involving glbtq people often illuminate the cultural and historical milieus in which they occurred as much as the biographies of the subjects of the scandals.
 
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09/01/2009 

Marriage and Family
 
While glbtq people have formed unions, partnerships, de facto marriages, and many kinds of families for generations, one of the greatest shifts in the history of the family began in the 1990s when queer families began to insist more vocally that they receive the same societal benefits as traditional families.
 
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08/01/2009 

Jewish-American Literature
 
Jewish-American gay and lesbian literature with its rich heritage, diverse subject matter, and thriving vitality has imbued American Jewish literature with new life. With some notable exceptions, American Jewish gay and lesbian writers have tended to be secularists; for them "Jewish" is not necessarily an indicator of a particular religious position or sensibility but an affirmation of ethnic and cultural identity.
 
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07/01/2009 

Photography: Lesbian, Pre-Stonewall
 
Photography has long been an important artistic medium for lesbian women, but the record of lesbian photography before Stonewall has been obscured by time, disinterest, and overt hostility. However, the last thirty years of scholarship have produced enough material to create a dialogue about photographs made by lesbian-identified or lesbian-identifiable women.
 
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06/01/2009 

Latina/Latino Literature
 
Latina Lesbian Literature is a vibrant literary tradition that has grown rapidly since the mid-1980s and enjoyed considerable critical attention, but the number of contributors to Gay Male Latino Literature has remained curiously small.
 
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05/01/2009 

Writers of Ancient Greece and Rome
 
Ancient Greek literature openly celebrated same-sex love in its poetry and prose. For the most part, Roman writing on homosexual themes followed the Greek models, though the two cultures held sharply differing attitudes toward love between males.
 
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04/01/2009 

European Art: Nineteenth Century
 
Several nineteenth century European artists and art critics achieved a self-aware homosexual identity that is expressed in both their lives and their works, but lesbianism is only rarely depicted in terms of identity during this period.
 
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03/01/2009 

Lesbians and Sports
 
Lesbians and athletics have been identified with each other since long before the 1969 Stonewall Rebellion alerted mainstream straight America that there was a large queer minority in its midst. Despite that long history, many lesbians in sports continue to face homophobia and other obstacles today.
 
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02/01/2009 

Claude Summers Reflects on Chris and Don
 
Claude Summers reflects on the romance and the creative partnership between Don Bachardy and Christopher Isherwood, the "first couple" of the gay liberation movement, in this review of the documentary film Chris and Don: A Love Story, directed by Guido Santi and Tina Mascara.
 
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