Gay Lerature: Poetry and Prose | Oxford Rearch Encyclopedia of Lerature

Contents:

• GAY AND LBIAN POETRY OUR TIME
• POETRY THAT IS GAY
• GAY & LBIAN POETRY OUR TIME : AN ANTHOLOGY
• GAY AND LBIAN POETRY
• GAY LERATURE: POETRY AND PROSEGAY LERATURE: POETRY AND PROSE
• POEMS CURATED BY ROSS GAY
• ROSS GAY
• GAY

GAY AND LBIAN POETRY OUR TIME

McMillan has scribed the book as “an update” to the Pengu Book of Homosexual Verse, the last major anthology of queer poems, published Bernard, whose first poetry llectn Surge was based on the New Cross fire archiv and won the Ted Hugh award, said 100 Queer Poems was “g at a cril, ntradictory juncture: wispread hatred and distst of trans people alongsi huge efforts at reprentatn and cln; general acceptance of cis gay and bisexual people yet risg tolerance post-Brex; an creasgly vol and visible tersex populatn, yet few legal rights or protectns for them” add: “It will be tertg to see what poets today pture of this moment and how thgs shift 10 or 20 years. Explore the rich tradn of gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr, and queer poets and poetry by browsg a selectn of poems & d. Published 1988, Gay and Lbian Poetry In Our Time: An Anthology eded by Carl Morse and Joan Lark llects nearly one hundred varied and distct gay and lbian voic of Amerin culture.

xxviii, 401 pag: 24 cmThis llectn prents the bt gay and lbian poetry wrten om 1950 to the prent, wh some 200 poems by 94 wrers. " / Invisible History / WALTA BORAWSKI -- Her Name Is Helen / BETH BRANT -- Wondro the Merge / JAMES BROUGHTON -- She Lov / OLGA BROUMAS -- Christmas wh the Holy Fay / Look Away Child / SUSAN CAVIN -- Why Are Daddi So Mean / JANE CHAMBERS -- The Wgs of a Wild Goose / CHRYSTOSOf Althea and Flaxie / palm leaf of Mary Magdalene / The Olr Amerin / CHERYL CLARKE -- After Touch / JAN CLAUSEN -- Beg Aware / My Past / DENNIS COOPER -- Olr Men / ALFRED CORN -- A Gay Psalm om Fort Valley / LOUIE CREW -- ambiente / TATIANA DE LA TIERRA -- The Sisters / ALEXIS DE VEAUX -- I expect you thk this huge dark at / An eye for an eye / C.

DONALD -- My Mother Would Be a Falnrs / ROBERT DUNCAN -- Curg Homosexualy / JIM EVERHARD -- Unwanted / World War II / EDWARD FIELD -- Assumptn About the Harlem Brown Baby / SALIH MICHAEL FISHER -- Deadly Weapon / BEATRIX GATES -- The Ln for Real / Howl, part I / Please Master / Kaddish, part IV / ALLEN GINSBERG -- My Chakabu Mama / JEWELLE GOMEZ -- Jt How Crazy Brenda Is / Weddg Receptn / MELINDA GOODMAN -- Long L: Youth and Age / I Planned to Have a Borr of Lavenr / PAUL GOODMAN -- A History of Lbianism / A Woman Is Talkg to Death / a funeral plasong om a younger woman to an olr woman / Talkers a Dream Doorway / JUDY GRAHN -- Oh God Forbid / FREDDIE GREENFIELD -- An Answer to a Man's Qutn, "What Can I Do About Women's Liberatn? June is Pri Month, an annual celebratn memoratg the 1969 Stonewall Rts, which took place New York Cy and lnched the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer rights movement the Uned Stat.

POETRY THAT IS GAY

Advot of queer theory claim that both heterosexualy and homosexualy are socially nstcted and that there is nothg “natural” about any sexual inty. The dividual and his or her wrgs are no longer nsired to be “sentially” gay or straight but stead are ponents a broad polil disurse. 1947)—but the vast majory of amic lerary studi of gay wrers follow s dictat.

For some, this legimiz homosexualy by classifyg as a variant of the same forc that produce heterosexualy. Homosexualy n be seen as created and imposed by the culture rather than as somethg chosen. The same nclns, however, n be ed to margalize gay wrgs by makg them seem merely one of many lser disurs the plexi of human sexual exprsn.

GAY & LBIAN POETRY OUR TIME : AN ANTHOLOGY

Queer theory may btow certa privileg and vditns, but also margaliz gay wrg. Bisexualy has been viewed wh gay studi as distct om homosexualy, and bisexuals have found themselv exclud om gay events and anizatns although a great many “gay ins” om Socrat to Shakpeare to Osr Wil were married and fathered children.

GAY AND LBIAN POETRY

Another divisive issue has volved the qutn of whether lbians and gay men should be tegorized as part of the same social and polil realy.

GAY LERATURE: POETRY AND PROSEGAY LERATURE: POETRY AND PROSE

The word “homosexual” ially referred to men, but s general e has been extend to clu women. The same problem surrounds the e of the word “gay, ” and some wrers acrdgly e “gay men” and “lbians.

” Further, even the word “homosexual” is ght wh problems: is often believed, rrectly, that origated as a medi-scientific term to classify homosexualy as a disease.

The word “homosexual” was, fact, created the late neteenth century as an English equivalent for German Homosexualtät, which first appeared prt 1869 a pamphlet argug agast the Pssian legal that prcribed punishments for men who engaged same-sex relatns.

POEMS CURATED BY ROSS GAY

“Homosexual” was ed for the first time A Problem Morn Ethics (1891) by the Brish poet and sayist John Addgton Symonds (1840–1893). Symonds was ntent wh his homosexual orientatn and did not tend the word s later medilized sense. He argued that homosexualy was natural and graed wh the dividual—sential, effect, to his inty.

In this say, “homosexual” and “gay” are ed terchangeably to refer to both men and women who are sexually drawn to members of their own sex.

Neher word is ed a historilly specific sense, so that Walt Whman (1819–1892) is lled “homosexual, ” although all likelihood he never heard the term.

ROSS GAY

FouultIn the troductn to the first volume of his Histoire la sexualé (1976; English translatn, History of Sexualy, 1978), Michel Fouult argu that homosexualy is an ventn of the late neteenth century.

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Before then, he claims, there were homosexual acts and sir, but the neteenth century renceived the as aspects and exprsns of a certa kd of person. The neteenth-century homosexual beme a personage, a past, a se history, and a childhood, addn to beg a type of life, a life form, and a morphology, wh an discreet anatomy and possibly a myster physlogy.