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Excerpt From Wrestling With Rustin, Or The Left Will Rise Again, Maybe, John D'Emilio

Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)

Four years ago, CLAGS sponsored a conference on the state of gay and lesbian history. I was one of several presenters in a session on biography. None of us on the panel had consulted beforehand. But by the beginning of the third or fourth presentation, a common pattern had emerged, and the audience erupted with laughter. Each one of us had opened our remarks with a mixture of apology and denial: we each were not, we assured the audience, writing a biography!

Club Marcella, Buffalo, Ny, Lgbtq Historical T-Shirt Collection, The Dr. Madeline Davis Lgbtq Archive Of Western New York

Gay Rights Historical T-Shirt Collection

Front Text: Club Marcella

Back Text: n/a

Description: White shirt with gold and black lettering; crown image

Buffalo Underground, Lgbtq Historical T-Shirt Collection, The Dr. Madeline Davis Lgbtq Archive Of Western New York

Gay Rights Historical T-Shirt Collection

Front Text: Buffalo Underground

Back Text: n/a

Description: White tank with back lettering; front has images of two buffalo heads

Gay Bingo, Lgbtq Historical T-Shirt Collection, The Dr. Madeline Davis Lgbtq Archive Of Western New York

Gay Rights Historical T-Shirt Collection

Front Text: Gay Bingo; AIDS Plus Fund of WNY; Gladys Over

Back Text: n/a

Description: Black shirt with red and blue lettering; image of a woman with red hair

Friends, Lgbtq Historical T-Shirt Collection, The Dr. Madeline Davis Lgbtq Archive Of Western New York

Gay Rights Historical T-Shirt Collection

Front Text: Friends

Back Text: n/a

Description: Green shirt with rainbow thread script; collared

Women For Joe Mesi, Lgbtq Historical T-Shirt Collection, The Dr. Madeline Davis Lgbtq Archive Of Western New York

Gay Rights Historical T-Shirt Collection

Front Text: Women for Joe Mesi

Back Text: Joe's fighting for us. VoteJoeMesi.com

Description: White shirt with pink outline lettering; image of boxing glove on back

Secrets, Buffalo, Ny, Lgbtq Historical T-Shirt Collection, The Dr. Madeline Davis Lgbtq Archive Of Western New York

Gay Rights Historical T-Shirt Collection

Front Text: Buffalo's Best Kept Secrets; 20 Allen Street

Back Text: n/a

Description: Hunter green shirt with gold lettering; collared

The Westlake, Buffalo, Ny, Lgbtq Historical T-Shirt Collection, The Dr. Madeline Davis Lgbtq Archive Of Western New York

Gay Rights Historical T-Shirt Collection

Front Text: The Westlake; Buffalo; New York

Back Text: n/a

Description: White shirt with black lettering; image of a man in a Speedo

Silence=Death, Lgbtq Historical T-Shirt Collection, The Dr. Madeline Davis Lgbtq Archive Of Western New York

Gay Rights Historical T-Shirt Collection

Front Text: Silence=Death

Back Text: n/a

Description: Black shirt with white lettering; pink triangle

Secrets, Buffalo, Ny, Lgbtq Historical T-Shirt Collection, The Dr. Madeline Davis Lgbtq Archive Of Western New York

Gay Rights Historical T-Shirt Collection

Front Text: Buffalo's Best Kept Secrets; 20 Allen Street

Back Text: n/a

Description: Navy blue shirt with gold lettering; collared

Pride, 2000, Lgbtq Historical T-Shirt Collection, The Dr. Madeline Davis Lgbtq Archive Of Western New York

Gay Rights Historical T-Shirt Collection

Front Text: Volunteer; Pride; Buffalo

Back Text: Pride 2000; sponsors; Forever Proud!

Description: White shirt with pink and black lettering; list of sponsors

Millennium March On Washington, Lgbtq Historical T-Shirt Collection, The Dr. Madeline Davis Lgbtq Archive Of Western New York

Gay Rights Historical T-Shirt Collection

Front Text: The March; the Rally; the Festival; Millennium March on Washington

Back Text: n/a

Description: White shirt with purple stitching; rainbow image of Washington D.C.

Hero = Activist, Lgbtq Historical T-Shirt Collection, The Dr. Madeline Davis Lgbtq Archive Of Western New York

Gay Rights Historical T-Shirt Collection

Front Text: Hero = Activist

Back Text: OUTspoken for Marriage; www.OUTspokenformarriage.org

Description: White shirt with black lettering; rainbow flag with stars on back

Pride, 2000, Lgbtq Historical T-Shirt Collection, The Dr. Madeline Davis Lgbtq Archive Of Western New York

Gay Rights Historical T-Shirt Collection

Front Text: Pride Buffalo

Back Text: Pride 2000; sponsors; Forever Proud!

Description: Blue shirt with black lettering; list of sponsors

The Racialization Of Sexuality: The Queer Case Of Jeffrey Dahmer, Ian Barnard

English Faculty Books and Book Chapters

"In this article I read media and subcultural representations of Jeffrey Dahmer, the white male U.S. serial killer who gained notoriety in the late 1980s for having sex with and then murdering and dismembering men of color in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. My aim is to show the extent to which the degree of Dahmer's homosexualization in a particular representation determines Dahmer' s thinking and actions in the sphere of race, and to suggest how spiraling efforts to separate race from sexuality in the Dahmer case only further intricate the two analytic axes."

Proposition 22 Flier (English)

Monterey County LGBTQ Histories Exhibit

No abstract provided.

Proposition 22 Flier (Spanish)

Monterey County LGBTQ Histories Exhibit

No abstract provided.

A Dyke's Life: Sexual Identity And Gender Performance In Radclyffe Hall's The Well Of Loneliness, Erica L. Ellsworth

All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects

This thesis studies sexual and gender identity and gender performance in The Well of Loneliness by utilizing postmodern theory. The protagonist in the novel, Stephen Gordon, is not only one example of the many identities of lesbianism, but she is also an example of a multiplicitous identity. This thesis also questions whether we can find the exact moment or reason why an identity is formed. An exploration of not only The Well of Loneliness but also of a character study of Stephen Gordon is important to this dialogue because both studies validate the contradictory and complimentary relationship between sex and …

Couples: Marriage, Civil Union, And Domestic Partnership, David L. Chambers

Book Chapters

In this country, during the last decades of the twentieth century, thousands of lesbians married other women and thousands of gay men married other men. Many of these couples recited traditional vows in churches and synagogues. Others have pledged to each other in their own backyards in words that they wrote themselves. But not one of these thousands of solemn occasions was recognized as creating a legally valid marriage. In the United States, each state has its own statute defining who can marry, and as far as the states were concerned, these couples were playing dress up. One state has …

Lavender Page

Monterey County LGBTQ Histories Exhibit

No abstract provided.

Audre Lorde's Expansive Influence On Black Lesbians: Jewelle Gomez, Cheryl Clarke, And Kate Rushin, Denise L. Fitzer

Masters Theses

Audre Lorde, who named herself black, feminist, lesbian, mother, poet, and activist, was a pioneer for black lesbians everywhere. In her poetry and prose, Lorde challenged the myths and taboos associated with black women, lesbians, and feminists. Although her work focused on a broad range of topics that illuminated her many identities, she concentrated most heavily on issues of multiple oppression and its resulting fear and silence. In naming herself, Lorde urged others to do the same — to fight the self-imposed and socially-imposed silence surrounding triple oppression.

Countless women from the black community of writers have paid tribute to …

Second-Parent Adoption By Same-Sex Couples In Ohio: Unsettled And Unsettling Law, Susan J. Becker

Law Faculty Articles and Essays

Ohio law regarding second-parent adoptions remains unsettled. Section II of this article provides an overview of Ohio adoption law. Section III presents the case of In re Jane Doe, starting with the decision of the lesbian couple to jointly bring a child into this world, and continuing with the efforts of both mothers to obtain legal recognition for the de facto parent's status through adoption, and the legal strategies employed by the mothers' attorneys, also addressed are the court-appointed Guardian Ad Litem (GAL), the social science data supplied by the amicus curiae to help the court reach a fully informed …

Buddies Nightclub, Buffalo, Ny, Lgbtq Historical T-Shirt Collection, The Dr. Madeline Davis Lgbtq Archive Of Western New York

Gay Rights Historical T-Shirt Collection

Front Text: Buddies; Buffalo

Back Text: Number 11

Description: Maroon shirt with white lettering; v-neck; sports league shirt

Secrets, Buffalo, Ny, Lgbtq Historical T-Shirt Collection, The Dr. Madeline Davis Lgbtq Archive Of Western New York

Gay Rights Historical T-Shirt Collection

Front Text: Buffalo's Best Kept Secrets; 20 Allen Street

Back Text: n/a

Description: Red shirt with black lettering

Do You Know Who I Am?, Lgbtq Historical T-Shirt Collection, The Dr. Madeline Davis Lgbtq Archive Of Western New York

Gay Rights Historical T-Shirt Collection

Front Text: The Underground Divas

Back Text: Do you know who I am? If you do, send me to 274 Delaware

Description: Gray shirt with black lettering

Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are!, Lgbtq Historical T-Shirt Collection, The Dr. Madeline Davis Lgbtq Archive Of Western New York

Gay Rights Historical T-Shirt Collection

Front Text: The Underground; Niteclub; 274 Delaware Tony's 1st Divorce Party

Back Text: Come out come out wherever you are!

Description: White shirt with blue lettering

Pink Symbols, Lgbtq Historical T-Shirt Collection, The Dr. Madeline Davis Lgbtq Archive Of Western New York

Gay Rights Historical T-Shirt Collection

Front Text: n/a

Back Text: n/a

Description: Blue shirt with pink lettering; various gender symbols

Bisexual Pride!, Lgbtq Historical T-Shirt Collection, The Dr. Madeline Davis Lgbtq Archive Of Western New York

Gay Rights Historical T-Shirt Collection

Front Text: Bisexual Pride; National Bisexual Network

Back Text: n/a

Description: White with black lettering; two triangles overlapped; one pink one blue; overlapping in purple

The Names Project, Lgbtq Historical T-Shirt Collection, The Dr. Madeline Davis Lgbtq Archive Of Western New York

Gay Rights Historical T-Shirt Collection

Front Text: The Names Project; Aids Memorial Quilt

Back Text: n/a

Description: Black shirt with purple and blue lettering; square with four images of a start; sun; heart; and flower

The Edge, Buffalo, Ny, Lgbtq Historical T-Shirt Collection, The Dr. Madeline Davis Lgbtq Archive Of Western New York

Gay Rights Historical T-Shirt Collection

Front Text: n/a

Back Text: The Edge; Buffalo, NY

Description: Back shirt with white lettering; long sleeve