We’re Here, We’re Queer

edited by Owen Keehnen

“Mapplethorpe’s Assault“

An article by Jack Fritscher

We’re Here, We’re Queer
Edited by Owen Keehnen
CONTENTS

• Introduction: Owen Keehnen
  
• A Lifetime Activist (1993): Paul Adams
  
• Lesbians Love Sex! (1994): Dorothy Allison
  
• A Pioneer Moves On (1992): Sasha Alyson
  
• Sibling Grief (1994): Barbara Lazear Ascher
  
• Cartoonist-Chronicler of Her Time (1994): Alson Bechdel
  
• The Daughters of Bilitis (1992): Del Martin & Phyllis Lyon
  
• Kisses For My President (1992): Joan Jett Blakk
  
• The Opposite Sex Is Neither / Transgressing Gender (1995/1998): Kate Bornstein
  
• Don’t Tell Him “You Can’t Say That!” (2004): Charles Karel Bouley
  
• Bright Ideas from a Sexpert (1993): Susie Bright
  
• The Dark Goddess of Horror is Brite (1997): Poppy Z. Brite
  
• A Man of Culture/Mapping Desire (1993/1996): Frank Browning
  
• Camp Hero/The Sweetest Taboo (1994/2003): Charles Busch
  
• De Les Otros (1996): Joseph Carrier
  
• Reclaiming Our History / A Case for Gay Marriage (1994/2004): George Chauncey
  
• Art From Memory/Cooper’s Truth Serum (1993/1997): Bernard Cooper
  
• The Bad Boy of Gay Lit (1992): Dennis Cooper
  
• The Englishman In New York (1990s): Quentin Crisp
  
• Graphic Activism (1995): Howard Cruse
  
• In the Flesh (1995): Michael Cunningham
  
• A Boy Names Phyllis (1997): Frank DeCaro
  
• Himbo Horror (2005): David DeCoteau
  
• The Naked Poet Laid Bare (1997): Gavin Geoffrey Dillard
  
• Hothead Paisan Speaks Out (1993): Diane DiMassa
  
• Uniting Gay & Lesbian Fiction (1995) Nisa Donnelly
  
• Future Perfect (1994): Emma Donoghue
  
• Heaven’s Coast (1996): Mark Doty
  
• Footlight Activism (1994): David Drake
  
• Spontaneous Combustion / Queer and Loathing (1991/1992): David B. Feinberg
  
• The Final Thing (1993): Robert Ford
  
• Turning Wounds into Scars (1997): Kenny Fries
  
• Mapplethorpe’s Assault (1995): Jack Fritscher
  
• Breaking the Ice (1997): Rudy Galindo
  
• Family Matters (1993): Jewelle Gomez
  
• Well Played (1997): Allan Gurganus
  
• Becoming Visible (1994): E. Lynn Harris
  
• The Start of Something Big! (1995): James Earl Hardy
  
• Let’s Walk Together (1992): Harry Hay
  
• Mr. Showtune (1996): Jerry Herman
  
• Memory, Molestation and U.F.O.s (1995): Scott Heim
  
• Helping LGBTQ Teens (1994): Ann Heron
  
• The Distance Between Loved and Beloved (1996): Andrew Holleran
  
• A Four Star Follow-Up (1995): Allan Hollinghurst
  
• Tom of Finland: Exposed! (1993): F. Valentine Hooven III
  
• At 42, Lesbian Legend Comes Out (1993): Janis Ian
  
• “Everything is Fiction” (1993): Gary Indiana
  
• Thinking Queer, Opera and Homosexuality (1994): Wayne Koestenbaum
  
• Candid / Top of His Game (1993/1997): David Leavitt
  
• Honoring Heroes (1992): Eric Marcus
  
• Laughter and Loss (1992): Scott McPherson
  
• Exploring The Big Gay World (1994): Neil Miller
  
• Sero-Positive Poster Boy / Last Watch of the Night (1992/1994): Paul Monette
  
• The Monastic Life (1993): Michael Lane & Jim Crotty
  
• Hitting a New High (1998): Ethan Mordden
  
• Preserving Herstory (1993): Joan Nestle
  
• Language Lover (1997): Leslea Newman
  
• The Tomcat Chronicles (2004): Jack Nichols
  
• The Pleasure Activist (1997): Scott O’Hara
  
• Coffee & Controversy (1995): Camille Paglia
  
• The Best Is Yet to Come (1996): Felice Picano
  
• The Pomo Afro Homos Return (1993): Pomo Afro Homos
  
• The Amazing Mr. Preston / His Life as a Pornographer (1992/1993): John Preston
  
• An Urban Legend (2004): Chuck Renslow
  
• Beyond the Heartlands (1993): Darrell Yates Rist
  
• It’s A Zine Scene (1994): Laurence Roberts
  
• She Works Hard for The Money (1995): Ru Paul
  
• Artist with a Mission (1996): Sapphire
  
• No More Straight Man (1992): Dick Sargent
  
• Getting Real (1993): Sarah Schulman
  
• Coming Out Amidst Sri Lanka’s Civil War (1996): Shyam Selvadurai
  
• The “Orphan Illness” & Medical Self-Advocacy (1993): Paul Sergios
  
• The Practical Queer (1994): Michelangelo Signorile
  
• By the Book — 1977 v. 1992 (1992): Dr. Charles Silverstein
  
• Talking AIDS and Society (1996): James Smith
  
• Bound for Justice (1992): Joe Steffan
  
• The Spirit of Gay Liberation (1993): Paul Stensland
  
• Tattoos, Taboos, and Literature (1993): Samuel Steward
  
• I Was a Teenage Coquette (2004): Pam Tent
  
• Not Your Ordinary Pussy (1996): Pussy Tourette
  
• Pop Poet a Go-Go (1995): David Trinidad
  
• A Broadway Tune (1997): Tommy Tune
  
• Chea’s Song (1995): Chea Villanueva
  
• Still Out In Front (1995): Patricia Nell Warren
  
• The Audacious Genet / Afternoon With a Literary Hero / A Man’s Own Story (1994/1996/1998): Edmund White
  
• Paul Lynde: Hardly Center, Certainly Not Square (2005): Steve Wilson and Joe FiOrenski
  
• Idol Worship (1991): David Wojnarowicz
  
• Holly Came from Miami F-L-A / Talking Trash with Holly (1992/1995): Holly Woodlawn
  
• Cracking the Corporate Closet (1994): James D. Woods
  

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