Growing up gay/growing up lesbian : a literary anthology / edited by Bennett L. Singer.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : New Press, 1994.Description: xviii, 317 p. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 1565841034
  • 9781565841031
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PS509.H57 G76 1994
Contents:
American dreams / Kevin Jennings -- It happened on Main Street / Linda Heal -- My image of myself / Dennis -- from Johnnieruth / Becky Birtha -- from Martina / Martina Navratilova -- from The David Kopay story / David Kopay, Perry Deane Young -- The answers I needed / Billie Tallmij -- from The well of loneliness / Radclyffe Hall -- from The naked civil servant / Quentin Crisp -- from Zami / Audre Lorde -- A diet of green salads / Whitey -- Blueberry man / David Bergman -- A world of possibilities / Steven Saylor -- The world outside / Julia Sullivan -- Different is not bad / Michael -- from Annie on my mind / Nancy Garden -- We two boys together clinging / Walt Whitman -- My archenemy / Jill Frushtick -- from The best little boy in the world / John Reid -- My best friend is gay?! / Shawn -- It's too hot / David J. Deschamps -- from Giovanni's room / James Baldwin -- Life line / Gloria E. Anzaldúa -- from Take off the masks / Malcolm Boyd -- My story / Dennis Cooper -- from Raven's road / Paula Gunn Allen -- from The lost language of cranes / David Leavitt -- Coming out to my mom / Travis Wise -- My mother's worst fears / Nancy D. Kates.
Black, queer, and out / Karl Bruce Knapper -- Cat / Julie Carter -- from Becoming a man / Paul Monette -- What my father told me / Paul Phillips -- from My brother on the shoulder of the road / Clifford Chase -- My brother / Pat Parker -- Growing up gay in Little Havana / Jesse G. Monteagudo -- from Oranges are not the only fruit / Jeanette Winterson -- Dawn / James Purdy -- A Chinese banquet / Kitty Tsui -- Commitments / Essex Hemphill -- from Gun-shy / Sean Mills -- from Night kites / M. E. Kerr -- A whisper in the veins / Terry Wolverton -- Mother and child / Jeanne Manford, Morty Manford -- A lesbian in class! / Beth Harrison -- A letter to Aunt Shelley and Uncle Don / Tom Shepard -- from We all nourish truth with our tongues / Dorothy Allison -- from Honor bound / Joseph Steffan -- Speaking up / Erna Pahe -- In my own space / Calvin Glenn -- from Teamwork / Lucy Jane Bledsoe -- Language of violence / The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy -- from Abominations / Lev Raphael -- from Rubyfruit jungle / Rita Mae Brown -- from Reflections of a rock lobster / Aaron Fricke -- Does it matter? / Anonymous.
Summary: An anthology integrating selections by gay and lesbian teenagers with older writers' reflections on growing up lesbian or gay.
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"Originally published under the title Growing up gay by The New Press in 1993"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-279).

American dreams / Kevin Jennings -- It happened on Main Street / Linda Heal -- My image of myself / Dennis -- from Johnnieruth / Becky Birtha -- from Martina / Martina Navratilova -- from The David Kopay story / David Kopay, Perry Deane Young -- The answers I needed / Billie Tallmij -- from The well of loneliness / Radclyffe Hall -- from The naked civil servant / Quentin Crisp -- from Zami / Audre Lorde -- A diet of green salads / Whitey -- Blueberry man / David Bergman -- A world of possibilities / Steven Saylor -- The world outside / Julia Sullivan -- Different is not bad / Michael -- from Annie on my mind / Nancy Garden -- We two boys together clinging / Walt Whitman -- My archenemy / Jill Frushtick -- from The best little boy in the world / John Reid -- My best friend is gay?! / Shawn -- It's too hot / David J. Deschamps -- from Giovanni's room / James Baldwin -- Life line / Gloria E. Anzaldúa -- from Take off the masks / Malcolm Boyd -- My story / Dennis Cooper -- from Raven's road / Paula Gunn Allen -- from The lost language of cranes / David Leavitt -- Coming out to my mom / Travis Wise -- My mother's worst fears / Nancy D. Kates.

Black, queer, and out / Karl Bruce Knapper -- Cat / Julie Carter -- from Becoming a man / Paul Monette -- What my father told me / Paul Phillips -- from My brother on the shoulder of the road / Clifford Chase -- My brother / Pat Parker -- Growing up gay in Little Havana / Jesse G. Monteagudo -- from Oranges are not the only fruit / Jeanette Winterson -- Dawn / James Purdy -- A Chinese banquet / Kitty Tsui -- Commitments / Essex Hemphill -- from Gun-shy / Sean Mills -- from Night kites / M. E. Kerr -- A whisper in the veins / Terry Wolverton -- Mother and child / Jeanne Manford, Morty Manford -- A lesbian in class! / Beth Harrison -- A letter to Aunt Shelley and Uncle Don / Tom Shepard -- from We all nourish truth with our tongues / Dorothy Allison -- from Honor bound / Joseph Steffan -- Speaking up / Erna Pahe -- In my own space / Calvin Glenn -- from Teamwork / Lucy Jane Bledsoe -- Language of violence / The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy -- from Abominations / Lev Raphael -- from Rubyfruit jungle / Rita Mae Brown -- from Reflections of a rock lobster / Aaron Fricke -- Does it matter? / Anonymous.

An anthology integrating selections by gay and lesbian teenagers with older writers' reflections on growing up lesbian or gay.

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