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Another mother tongue : gay words, gay worlds / Judy Grahn.
LIBRA HQ76.25.U5 G73 1984
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Grahn, Judy, 1940-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Homosexuality--Terminology.
- Homosexuality.
- Homosexuality--Miscellanea.
- Lesbianism--Miscellanea.
- Lesbianism.
- Lesbians--United States--Psychology.
- Lesbians.
- Lifestyles.
- Miscellanea.
- United States.
- Psychology.
- Lifestyles--United States--Miscellanea.
- Lesbians--Psychology.
- Genre:
- Trivia and miscellanea.
- Terminology.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 324 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Beacon Press, [1984]
- Summary:
- In this view of gay culture and its role in society, the author weaves history with myth, tribal traditions with the occult, and interviews with personal experience to unfold the rich pattern of gay life that has existed from ancient times to the present.
- Contents:
- Sashay down the lavender trail
- The original underground
- Gay is very American
- Fairies and fairy queens
- We go around the world
- Butches, bulldogs and the Queen of Bulldikery
- Riding with the amazons
- Flaming, flaming fagot kings
- Friction among women
- Gay is good and gay is also baed.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-315) and index.
- Gay Book Award (American Library Association), 1985
- Stonewall Book Award, Winner, 1985
- Other Format:
- Online version: Grahn, Judy, 1940- Another mother tongue.
- ISBN:
- 0807067164
- 9780807067161
- 9780807067178
- 0807067172
- 0807067415
- 9780807067413
- OCLC:
- 10506489
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