1st Edition
Lavender Mansions 40 Contemporary Lesbian And Gay Short Stories
By Irene Zahava
Copyright 1994
450 Pages
by
Routledge
450 Pages
by
Routledge
450 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book presents a collection of forty contemporary lesbian and gay short stories by both lesbians and gay men who represent a multiplicity of ethnic and racial backgrounds. It allows readers to understand lesbian and gay life according to its most culturally and politically significant themes.
Credits -- Introduction -- Childhood/Growing Up -- From Zami: A New Spelling of My Name -- My Mother’s Clothes: The School of Beauty and Shame -- Ben’s Eyes -- Myths -- Buddies -- Ceremonies -- Sacred Ups of the Bronx -- Coming Out/Finding Community -- Sister Safety Pin -- Growing in Defiance -- Letter to Mama -- Shouts of Joy -- Mujeres Morenas -- Don’t Explain -- Families -- Cultural Revolution -- Mothers Know -- Enrollment -- In My Father’s Car -- River of Names -- Oppression/Resistance -- A Letter to Harvey Milk -- Fruitstand II: Honeydew Moon -- Country People -- Public Display -- Kissing Doesn’t Kill -- Bisexuality -- Humming -- Meeting Imelda Marcos -- The Juliette Low Legacy -- Relationships/Friendships -- Is this Enough for you? -- When you Grow to Adultery -- Trespassing -- The Day Carmen Maura Kissed me -- The Dress -- Deer Out of Season -- Aids -- Despair: August 1987 -- Halfway Home -- The Angel of Death on the Provincetown Ferry -- Portland, Maine: An Essay -- Running on Empty -- A Good Man -- Aging/Dying -- D.O.M -- In the Life