GAY, LESBIAN, BISEXUAL FICTION/HISTORY LINKS
Stonewall:
- Stonewell
and Beyond, a Columbia University Libraries book exhibition held in
1994. This
page is especially useful, and gives historical background.
- a page full
of information on the Gay Writing
Index
- some post
stonewall documents from the People with a
History website.
- You can view a picture
of the stonewall bar, and some other pictures on a page that was
developed for another class. Maybe just the picture of stonewall is
useful?
Harvey Milk
- A good Harvey
Milk page with lots of pictures.
- Here
is a page by Robert Hodgson all about Harvey Milk. Lots of pictures.
- Tom Sullivan's
Essay File has a good text history of Milk that describes his life by
occupation.
- I remember Harvey is
an essay by Ron Williams.
- The Forgotten
Populist by Gregory J. Rosmaita.
- The
citation on Milk from The Martyrdom of Mayor George Moscone, by Joel
GAzis-SAx. (A very interesting seeming essay.)
- this
is a page on Planet SOMA's Folsom Street in the 70's page... all
about Milk.
- The Times of Harvey
Milk is a doccumentary. This is a link to a webpage about the movie.
- A picture of Milk's
commemerative plaque on Castro Street.
James Baldwin
- Random House's
Baldwin Feature contains a bio, book list, excerpt, and selected
links. ******
- Writing
As Resistance: bio, biblio, criticism, links ******
- A text-only Baldwin
page with a brief bio and nice compendium of links.
- James
Baldwin: An Appreciation by John Stevenson, printed in the Boston Book
Review.
- A
Case Study of Three Authors includes some interview matterial, and a
brief critique of Sunny's Blues.
- This
page has some information on Baldwin and a few pictures.
- Mothers
and Wives: Womens Roles in Zora Neale Hurstons Their
Eyes Were Watching God and James Baldwins Go Tell It On the
Mountain is an essay by Bryan D. Bourn.
Paul Monnett
Christopher Isherwood
- Creative
Quotations from bemorecreative.com.
- Christopher
Isherwood biography, work, bibliography, at The Knitting Circle.
- Christopher
Isherwood: contains a biography, and bibliography.
- Red Letter Day Magazine
Presents Christopher Isherwood: contains excerpts from Isherwood's
_Mr. Norris Changes Trains_, an introduction, and many photos of the
period.
E. M. Forster
- Only
Connect: a web site dedicated to E. M. Forster. Looks nice, and
includes a biography, and some other stuff. but no mention of his
sexuality... as with the next site either...
- A Passage
through Forster is another large site about Forster.
- E.M.
Forster (a biography, and bibliography)
at The
Knitting Circle
- contains a page
biography and a bibliography.
- CONNECTING WITH E.M.
FORSTER, by Sidney Perkowitz, originally appeared in The Bedside
Reader.
- A View of E.M.
Forster by R.H. Albright (Boston, MA; 1996-99) --- includes a section
of books about and some criticism. Most of the links are to amazon.
Adrienne Rich
- Short biography,
some poems, and links at poets.org (academy of american poets)
- A text page
containing mostly poems and a brief (one paragraph) biography.
-
an article by Robert Hass about Rich's new book.
-
Library of Congress Citations
-
Another short bio
- A poem and
brief bio posted for an event in 1997.
Audre Lorde
- A Litany for
Survival: The Life and Work of audre Lorde
-
A tribute to Audre Lorde
- The Audre Lorde
Award given at San Francisco U.
- Remember Audre
Lorde at Tom Sullivan's Essay File
- Audre Lord
Page that gives the text of "Coal" and a brief bio, bibliography, and
list of awards.
- Writing
and Resistance Audre Lorde Page bio, biblio, criticism, links...
- Essay:
Who is Responsible, by Lani Peck.
Pat Parker:
- Poem
in an issue of Orgasm Politics...
- A poem
and group discussion questions excerpted from a sylabus...
- Guidelines for the Pat Parker
poetry award at the U of Maryland
Ann Bannon:
- http://webpages.marshall.edu/~jarrell3/author.html
Biography, timeline, excerpts, bibliographies... etc...
Judy Grahn:
- http://www.publishingtriangle.org/awards.html#The Randy
Shilts-Judy Grahn
an award for influential gay and lesbian books
-
FROM GENETIC COSMOLOGY TO GENITAL COSMETICS:
ORIGIN THEORIES OF THE RIGHTING RITES OF MALE
CIRCUMCISION talks about Grahn's new book...
- V.
Detroit Annie, hitchhiking the text of the poem...
- A
poem read by Judy Grahn on the radio... history of that reading...
-
They Say She is Veiled again, just the poem...
- This link may or
may not work... but is said to be a biography...
Rita May Brown:
- The Personal Homepage of
Rita May Brown... this is a great site...
- Another great site
completely devoted to Rita May Brown... a brief description of all her
books.
- Aphorisms
by Brown
-
another list of quotes
Minni Bruce Pratt:
- Minni Bruce Pratt's Homepage
- a picture on a
page advertising a reading...
Jane Rule:
- pic & brief bio & list
of awards
- Text of "Teaching
Sexuality by Jane Rule
-
The Jane Rule Fonds
Birtha Harris:
Mab Segrest:
-
Speak Out!
Misc:
- A HUGE Bibligraphy
of Gay and Lesbian History
- Lesbians of
Color Chronology
-
Outside Looking In: Representations of Gay and Lesbian
Experiences in the Young Adult Novel
- Womynlynks is
an index of links about lesbian women...