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"Because of systematic oppression against gay and lesbian people, folklore has played a central role within gay and lesbian communities. Individual and collective survival have depended upon traditional forms of communication and expression ... When a group is categorically denied even so much as social recognition, meanings of such fundamental human experiences as life, love, sex, and death may be recreated by and for that group through traditional forms and means."
— (from "The Dangers of Authenticity" by Deborah Blincoe and John Forrest, in the Editorial Essay of the special issue, Prejudice and Pride: Lesbian and Gay Traditions in America, New York Folklore issue (Vol. 19, Nos. 1-4, 1993).
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Cover of Vol. 19, Nos. 1-2, New York Folklore

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NEW YORK FOLKLORE
Vol. XIX, Nos. 1-2, 1993
Prejudice and Pride: Lesbian and Gay Traditions in America

CONTENTS

PUBLICATIONS | VOICES | BACK  ISSUES | FOLKLORE  IN ARCHIVES | FOLK  ARTISTS  SELF-MGT | ORDER PUBLICATIONS | SEARCH

Editorial Essay
The Dangers of Authenticity
Deborah Blincoe
and John Forrest		 1

Introduction
Coming Out, Coming Home: Reclaiming a Place to Belong		 Joseph P. Goodwin 15

Articles
Hothead Paisan: Clearing a Space for a Lesbian Feminist Folklore		 Dana A. Heller 27

Gay Men’s English: Cooperative Discourse in a Language of Risk		 William Leap 45

Something to Remember Me By: Maupin’s Tales of the City Novels as Artifacts in Contemporary Gay Folk Culture		 Jimmy D. Browning 71

"I Would Rather Be Fixated on the Lord": Women’s Religion, Men’s Power, and the "Dignity" Problem		 Leonard Norman Primiano 89

Body Rhetoric: A Study in Lesbian Coding
Jan Laude		 105

Untitled: Opus 7 (This is Folklore) or Purity and Danger: An Interpretation		 Charles Bergengren 121

Voice of Tradition
Two Spirited People: Understanding Who We Are as Creation		 Curtis Harris and
Leota Lone Dog		 155

Lesbian Folklore: A New Day Coming		 Jan Phillips 165

Lesbian Code: Dyke Spotting in Heteropatriarchyland		 Alix Dobkin 181

Who’s No Lady? Excerpts from an Oral History of New York City’s 82 Club		 Joe E. Jeffreys 185

"Looking for Some Sort of Love": The Sexual Life History of a Gay Man		 Michael Avrut 203

Folklore Notes
Exploring Frontiers: An American Tradition
W. Dorr Legg
217

Rewriting Tradition: The Queer Politics of a Lesbian Folklorist		 Kay Turner 237


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