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01/01/2010 

Christian Denominations
 
While denominations such as the Metropolitan Community Church and the Unitarian Universalists welcome full participation by glbtq members and clergy, others are divided over glbtq issues, and some are ardent supporters of the most homophobic elements of the New Right.
 
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12/01/2009 

American Literature: Lesbian, 1900-1969
 
Lesbian literature between 1900 and 1969 exploited the "outlaw" status of the lesbian. This phenomenon is reflected in the stylistically and thematically diverse work of such writers as Sarah Orne Jewett, Djuna Barnes, Gertrude Stein, and Hilda Doolittle, among others.
 
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11/01/2009 

Lois Rudnick on Cady Wells
 
Lois Rudnick, editor of Cady Wells and Southwestern Modernism (Museum of New Mexico Press, 2009), explains her interest in and describes the life and work of Cady Wells (1904-1954), a modernist painter who thrived in the art colonies of Taos and Santa Fe during the first half of the twentieth century. Wells found love as well as an accepting and like-minded creative community in New Mexico's desert.
 
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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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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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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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