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<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#CC0000" alink="#CC0000"><center><hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade>A selection of notable essays from the landmark publication<hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade><p><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9781566395960&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><img src="1395_reg.gif" height=200 border=1 vspace=4></p></center><!--none//--><h1>The Best of <I>The Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review</I></h1>
<H2><!-- Illustrated by Charles Hefling. Foreword by Edmund White --></H2>
<h3>edited by Richard Schneider, Jr., foreword by Edmund White</h3>
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</P><BLOCKQUOTE><I>"Among the deluge of offerings in this burgeoning niche market, this work brings together some of the more sophisticated minds writing today. This collection of reviews, essays, and interviews reads like the liveliest of cafe society debate.... Recommended."</I>
<br>—<b><I>Library Journal</I></b><I></I></BLOCKQUOTE>
<p>Among the periodicals targeted to gay and lesbian readers, <i>The Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review</i> stands out as <I>the</I> forum for the serious discussion of contemporary politics and culture. This collection of lively and accessibly written essays, commentaries, and interviews features a stellar line-up of writers and activists. Engaging with a wide range of subjects that particularly interest gays and lesbians, these provocative essays take on contemporary issues of gay rights and identity politics as well as recover the pre- and post-Stonewall literary heritage that gives shape to today's gay culture.
<BR> <h2>Contents</h2><P>
<p>Series Foreword – Robert Dawidoff
<br>Foreword – Edmund White
<br>General Introduction – Richard Schneider, Jr.
<p><b>Being There</b>
<br>1. My Harvard – Andrew Holleran
<br>2. A Tragedy of Bees – Patricia Nell Warren
<br>3. Russia: "Invitation to a beheading" – Yaroslav Mogutin
<br>4. Remembering the Gay Old Times – Edmund White
<p><b>Origins of an Orientation</b>
<br>5. The Genetic Theory of Sexual Orientation – Richard Pillard
<br>6. Varieties of Biological Explanation – William Byne and Ed Stein
<br>7. Genes in the Service of Gay Pride – Vernon Rosario
<br>8. Do Women Choose Their Sexual Identity – Karla Golden
<br>9. Where Gay Boys Come From – Camille Paglia
<p><b>Early Outbreaks</b>
<br>10. Lesbians in Ancient Rome – Bernadette Brooten
<br>11. A Gay Civil War Novel Surfaces – Douglas Shand-Tucci
<br>12. Review of George Chauncey's <I>Gay New York</I> – Robert Dawidoff
<br>13. Deciphering the Gay Halocaust – Lev Raphael
<br>14. Hollywood Watering Holes – Lester Strong
<p><b>The Gay Decades</b>
<br>15. Lesbian New York – Karla Jay
<br>16. The Real Violet Quill Club – Felice Picano
<br>17. Behind the Door at Red Dora's – Gabrielle Glancy
<br>18. Reverberations of "The NEA Four Affair" – Holly Hughes
<p><b>Literary Heritage</b>
<br>19. On Emily Dickinson – Martha Nell Smith
<br>20. On Willa Cather – Marilee Lindemann
<br>21. Stein's Style – Renate Stendhal
<br>22. Review of <I>Auden</I> – Richard Howard
<br>23. Five Houses of Gay Fiction – Reed Woodhouse
<br>24. Review of Saphire's <I>Push</I> – Cheryl Clarke
<br>25. David Leavitt's Inner Child – Michael Schwartz
<br>26. Interview – Edward Albee
<p><b>On Liberation Strategy: An Exchange</b>
<br>27. Three Articles Exerpted – Barney Frank
<br>28. Reply to Frank – Rich Tafel
<br>29. Interview – Urvashi Vaid
<br>30. Interview – Larry Kramer
<p><b>Assimilation Versus Ghettoization: An Exchange</b>
<br>31. Open Letter to Bruce Bawer – David Bergman
<br>32. Reply to Bergman and Bergman's Rebuttal – Bruce Bawer
<p><b>Postmodernism and its Discontents</b>
<br>33. The Perils of Postmodernism – Richard Mohr
<br>34. The Politics of Sexual Identity – April Martin
<br>35. Review of Boswell's <I>Same Sex Marriages</I> – Denise Kimber Buell
<br>36. Review of David Halperin's <I>Saint=Foucault</I> – Andrew Holleran
<p>About the Contributors
</P><BR> <H2>About the Author(s)</H2>
<P><B>Richard Schneider, Jr.</B>, is the editor of <i>The Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review</i>.</P>
<BR><H2>Subject Categories</H2>
<p><A HREF="/tempress/sexual.html" TARGET="_top">Sexuality Studies/Sexual Identity</a>
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<BR><h2 class="inpageheading">In the series</H2>
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</p><p>The <I>American Subjects</I> series, edited by Robert Dawidoff, will introduce readers to unfamiliar areas or figures in American culture. All of the titles in this series will be the first on their particular subject. Each will tell an unfamiliar story and will emphasize the cultural side of how Americans have lived and what they have created or thought.</p>
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