Date: Thu, 29 Jun 1995 17:05:16 -0400 (EDT)
From: "David Bedell (ELI Fac)" <bedell@cse.bridgeport.edu>
Here's a revision for the archive which should stand for a while. Note the
expanded section on the Philippines.
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INTERNATIONAL/MULTICULTURAL BIBLIOGRAPHY ON GAY, LESBIAN, AND BISEXUAL CONCERNS
Revised 06/26/95. (This list focuses primarily on English language books by or
about members of non-English speaking cultures.)
Compiled by David Bedell, University of Bridgeport <bedell@cse.bridgeport.edu>
with special thanks to:
Amnesty International Members for Lesbian and Gay Concerns
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Ellen Greenblatt, SUNY Buffalo <ulcreg@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu>
J. McRee (Mac) Elrod <ub652@freenet.victoria.bc.ca>
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CONTENTS OF THIS DOCUMENT:
1. Books of Worldwide Scope
2. Europe
Belgium
Denmark
France
Germany
Greece
Ireland
Italy
Netherlands
Russia
Spain
Other Europe
3. Latin America
Brazil
Cuba
Mexico
Other Latin America
4. North Africa and Middle East
Persia
Other North Africa and Middle East
5. Sub-Saharan Africa
South Africa
Other Sub-Saharan Africa
6. South Asia
India
Other South Asia
7. East Asia and Pacific
China
Japan
New Guinea
Philippines
Singapore
Thailand
Other Asia and Pacific
8. Native American
9. Other
1. BOOKS OF WORLDWIDE SCOPE:
Anderson, Shelley. Out in the World: International Lesbian Organizing.
Ithaca, NY: Firebrand Books, 1991.
Blackwood, Evelyn, ed. The Many Faces of Homosexuality: Anthropological
Approaches to Homosexual Behavior. Binghamton, NY: Harrington Park Press,
1986. (Published first under title Anthropology and Homosexual Behavior.)
Includes material on Brazil, China, India, Lesotho, Mexico, and Lakota
Indians.
Churchill, Wainwright. Homosexual Behavior among Males: A Cross-Cultural
and Cross Species Investigation. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall,
Inc., 1971.
Conner, Randy P. Blossom of Bone: Reclaiming the Connections Between
Homoeroticism and the Sacred. San Francisco: HarperSan Francisco, 1993.
Multicultural, transhistorical (China, Mexico, Afro-America, France,
etc.); a blend of scholarly & poetic prose.
Culture and Homosexuality. Montreal: McGill University, 1986. Vol. 23,
no. 3 of Transcultural Psychiatric Research Review.
Duberman, Martin B., Vicinus, Martha, & Chauncey, George, Jr., eds. Hidden
from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past. New York: New American
Library, 1989. Investigates changing attitudes toward homosexuality through
history and in various regions of the world, including France, Germany, the
Netherlands, Russia, Cuba, South Africa, China, Japan, and Native America.
Dynes, Wayne R., ed. Encyclopedia of Homosexuality. New York: Garland
Publishing, 1990.
Dynes, Wayne R., & Donaldson, Stephen, eds. Ethnographic Studies of
Homosexuality. New York: Garland Publishing, 1992. A collection of
previously published journal articles.
Garnets, Linda, & Kimmel, Douglas C., eds. Psychological Perspectives on
Lesbian and Gay Male Experiences. New York: Columbia University Press,
1993. Includes material on Lakota Indian berdaches, Latinas, and Asian-
Americans.
Greenberg, David F. The Construction of Homosexuality. Chicago: University
of Chicago Press, 1988. A cross-cultural history of homosexuality.
Harry, Joseph, & Das, Man Singh, eds. Homosexuality in International
Perspective. New Delhi: Vikas Publishing House, 1980.
Herdt, Gilbert H., ed. Gay and Lesbian Youth. New York: Harrington Park
Press, 1989. A cross-cultural study; includes material on Brazil, France,
Mexico, etc.
IALGAL. Directory of the International Association of Lesbian and Gay Archives
and Libraries, compiled by Alan V. Miller. Toronto: The Association, 1987.
Leyland, Winston, ed. Gay Roots: An Anthology of Gay History, Sex, Politics,
and Culture. San Francisco: Gay Sunshine Press, 1991. Includes much
international, especially Latin American, material.
Likosky, Stephan, ed. Coming Out: An Anthology of International Gay and
Lesbian Writings. New York: Pantheon Books, 1992. Includes articles,
testimonials, and interviews from many countries.
Malinowsky, H. Robert. International Directory of Gay and Lesbian Periodicals.
Phoenix, AZ: Oryx Press, 1987.
Miller, Neil. Out in the World: Gay and Lesbian Life from Buenos Aires to
Bangkok. New York: Random House, 1992. A series of first-hand experiences
of various gay and lesbian groups and movements by a gay journalist.
Nelson, Emmanuel S., ed. Critical Essays: Gay and Lesbian Writers of Color.
New York: The Haworth Press, 1993.
Penelope, Julia, & Valentine, Sarah, eds. Finding the Lesbians: Personal
Accounts from Around the World. Freedom, CA: The Crossing Press, 1990.
Reid, Anthony, ed. The Eternal Flame, Vol. 1: An Anthology of Homosexual
Verse, 2000 BC - 2000 AD. Elmhurst, NY: Global Academic Publishers, 1992.
RISC. Human Rights for All? A Global View of Lesbian and Gay Oppression and
Liberation. RISC, 1992. Packet available through AIMLGC, P.O. Box 8293,
Santa Cruz, CA 95061 ($12); includes personal accounts, interviews,
discussion, and group activities.
Ross, Michael W. Psychopathology and Psychotherapy in Homosexuality. New
York: Haworth Press, 1988. Includes some cross-cultural material,
including Eastern Europe.
Sabatier, Renee, Foreman, Martin, et al. AIDS and the Third World.
Philadelphia: New Society Publishers, 1989. Includes reportage, policies,
and country-by-country statistics.
Smith, Aaron Stratton. A Cross-Cultural Bibliography on Homosexuality.
[s.l., s.n., 1992] Focuses on homosexuality outside the U.S.
Spartacus, 1994-1995: International Gay Guide. East Haven, CT: InBook, 1994.
Swidler, Arlene, ed. Homosexuality and World Religions. Valley Forge, PA:
Trinity Press International, 1993.
Tielman, Rob, Carballo, Manuel, & Hendriks, Aart, eds. Bisexuality and
HIV-AIDS: A Global Perspective. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1991.
Tielman, Rob, Hendriks, Aart, & Van der Veen, Evert, eds. The Third Pink Book:
A Global View of Lesbian and Gay Liberation and Oppression. Buffalo, NY:
Prometheus Books, 1993. Includes articles and a country-by-country survey
of the social and legal position of homosexuals in 202 countries.
Whitam, Frederick L., & Mathy, Robin M. Male Homosexuality in Four Societies:
Brazil, Guatemala, the Philippines, and the United States. New York: Praeger
Publishers, 1986.
2. EUROPE:
BELGIUM:
Hollinghurst, Alan. The Folding Star: A Novel. New York: Pantheon Books,
1994. Fiction about gay English teacher in Belgium.
Mendes-Leite, Rommel, & De Busscher, Pierre-Olivier, eds. Gay Studies from
the French Cultures: Voices from France, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, and the
Netherlands. New York: The Haworth Press, 1993.
Temerson, Catherine, & Kourilsky, Francoise, eds. Gay Plays: An International
Anthology. [s.l.]: Ubu Repertory Theater Publications, 1989. Plays are
mainly by francophone (French, Belgian, Quebecois) playwrights.
DENMARK:
Jersild, Jens. Boy Prostitution, trans. Oscar Bojesen. Copenhagen: Gad,
1956.
Jersild, Jens. The Normal Homosexual Male Versus the Boy Molester.
Copenhagen: Nyt Nordisk Forlag, 1967.
Weinberg, Martin S., & Williams, Colin J. Male Homosexuals: Their Problems
and Adaptations. New York: Oxford University Press, 1974. Studies of gay
men in the U.S., Denmark, and the Netherlands.
FRANCE:
Allard, Jeannine. Legende. Boston: Alyson Publications. The legend of
Philippa, who went to sea disguised as a boy, and her love for Aurelie.
Apter, Emily S. Andre Gide and the Codes of Homotextuality. Saratoga, CA:
Anma Libri, 1987. Examines homosexual themes in the works of Gide (1869-
1951), especially his 1924 dialog Corydon.
Baldwin, James. Giovanni's Room: A Novel. New York: Dial Press, 1956.
Classic novel by an African-American writer in Paris.
Barney, Natalie C. Adventures of the Mind: The Memoirs of Natalie Clifford
Barney, trans. John S. Gatton. New York: New York University Press, 1992.
Lesbian American expatriate (1876-1972) who hosted avant-garde salons in
Paris.
Barney, Natalie Clifford. A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford
Barney, trans. Anna Livia. Norwich, VT: New Victoria Publishers, 1992.
Essays, epigrams, and portraits of friends and lovers by an American
expatriate in Paris.
Belloc, Denis. Neons: A Novel, trans. William Rodarmor. Boston: D. R.
Godine, 1991. Fiction set in Paris.
Collard, Cyril. Savage Nights, trans. William Rodarmor. New York: Overlook
Press, 1994. Raw autobiographical novel about an HIV positive bisexual
Parisian filmmaker. Author died of AIDS after completing the film version.
Copi. The Homosexual, or the Difficulty of Sexpressing Oneself. New York:
Riverrun Press, 1976. Gay Argentine-French playwright.
Copi. Copi: Plays, Vol. 1, trans. Lee Taylor. New York: Riverrun Press,
1980. Gay Argentine-French playwright.
Copley, Antony R. H. Sexual Moralities in France, 1780-1980: New Ideas on the
Family, Divorce, and Homosexuality: An Essay on Moral Change. New York:
Routledge, 1989.
DeJean, Joan. Fictions of Sappho, 1546-1937. Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 1989. Traces history of French writings on Greek lesbian poet Sappho.
Genet, Jean. Prisoner of Love, trans. Barbara Bray. Hanover, NH: University
Press of New England, 1992. Semi-surreal autobiography of Genet's (1910-86)
life with PLO soldiers in Jordan and Lebanon.
Genet, Jean. Treasures of the Night: Collected Poems of Jean Genet, trans.
Steven Finch. San Francisco: Gay Sunshine Press, 1981.
Gide, Andre. Corydon, trans. Richard Howard. New York: Farrar, Straus, &
Giroux, 1983. Polemic dialog in defense of homosexuality and pederasty,
first published in 1924.
Haight, Mary Ellen Jordan. Walks in Gertrude Stein's Paris. Salt Lake City:
Peregrine Smith Books, 1988.
Jay, Karla. The Amazon and the Page: Natalie Clifford Barney and Renee
Vivien. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1988. Study of Barney
(1876-1972) and Vivien (1887-1909), American and British expatriates who lived
and wrote in France.
Mendes-Leite, Rommel, & De Busscher, Pierre-Olivier, eds. Gay Studies from
the French Cultures: Voices from France, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, and the
Netherlands. New York: The Haworth Press, 1993.
Newman, Byron. The Ultimate Angels. London: Hutchinson, 1983. Illustrated
biographies of Paris transsexuals.
Phillips, Laurence, ed. Paris Scene. East Haven, CT: InBook, 1993.
Pollard, Patrick. Andre Gide: Homosexual Moralist. New Haven: Yale
University Press, 1991.
Rimbaud, Arthur, & Verlaine, Paul. A Lover's Cock and Other Gay Poems, trans.
J. Murat & W. Gunn. San Francisco: Gay Sunshine Press, 1979.
Rivers, J. E. Proust and the Art of Love: The Aesthetics of Sexuality in the
Life, Times, and Art of Marcel Proust. New York: Columbia University Press,
1980.
Schlumberger, Jean. Madeleine and Andre Gide: The Platonic Marriage of Saint
and Homosexual, trans. Richard H. Akeroyd. Tuscaloosa, AL: Portals Press,
1981.
Souhami, Diana. Gertrude and Alice. Hammersmith, London: Pandora, 1991.
Biography of Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) and Alice B. Toklas, American
expatriates in Paris.
Stambolian, George, & Marks, Elaine, eds. Homosexualities and French
Literature: Cultural Contexts, Critical Texts. Ithaca, NY: Cornell
University Press, 1979.
Stein, Gertrude. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. New York: Literary
Guild, 1933. American expatriate couple in Paris.
Steward, Samuel M. The Caravaggio Shawl. Boston: Alyson Publications, 1989.
A comic murder mystery starring Stein and Toklas; includes description of the
secret world of 1937 homosexual Paris.
Temerson, Catherine, & Kourilsky, Francoise, eds. Gay Plays: An International
Anthology. New York: Ubu Repertory Theater Publications, 1989. Plays are
mainly by francophone (French, Belgian, Quebecois) playwrights.
Vivien, Renee. The Woman of the Wolf and Other Stories, trans. Karla Jay &
Yvonne Klein. New York: Gay Presses of New York, 1983.
White, Edmund. Genet: A Biography. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993.
Definitive work on petty thief, outcast, novelist, and playwright Jean Genet
(1910-86), including frank account of his erotic life and preference for
all-male society, from reform school through prison and later life.
GERMANY:
Baker, Jim, ed. Berlin Scene. East Haven, CT: InBook, 1994.
Faderman, Lillian, & Eriksson, Brigitte, eds. & trans. Lesbians in Germany:
1890s-1920s. Tallahassee, FL: Naiad Press, 1990.
Heger, Heinz. The Men with the Pink Triangle, trans. David Fernbach. Boston:
Alyson Publications, 1980.
Hirschfeld, Magnus. Transvestites: The Erotic Drive to Cross-Dress, trans.
Michael A. Lombardi-Nash. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1991. Pioneering
work by a German sexologist, first published in 1910.
Isherwood, Christopher. The Berlin Stories. New York: New Directions, 1954.
Includes "The Last of Mr. Norris" and "Goodbye to Berlin," two stories set in
pre-WWII Germany, which were the basis of the musical Cabaret. (First
published in 1946.)
Jones, James W. We of the Third Sex: Literary Representations of
Homosexuality in Wilhelmine Germany. New York: Peter Lang, 1990.
Katz, Jonathan N., ed. Lesbianism and Feminism in Germany, 1895-1910. Salem,
NH: Ayer Company Publishers, 1975.
Kennedy, Hubert C. Ulrichs: The Life and Works of Karl Heinrich Ulrichs,
Pioneer of the Modern Gay Movement. Boston: Alyson Publications, 1988.
Ulrichs (1825-95) was a lawyer and the first openly gay fighter for the
rights of homosexuals.
Lemke, Jurgen, ed. Gay Voices from East Germany, trans. Steven Stoltenberg et
al. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1991. First-person accounts
by 14 gay men.
Mackay, John Henry. The Hustler: The Story of a Nameless Love from Friedrich
Street, trans. Hubert Kennedy. Boston: Alyson Publications, 1985. (First
published in Germany in 1926 under pseudonym Sagitta.)
Moeller, Robert G. Sex, Society and the Law in the Postwar West Germany:
Homosexuals and the Federal Constitutional Court. Berkeley, CA: Center for
German and European Studies, University of California, 1993.
Oosterhuis, Harry, ed. Homosexuality and Male Bonding in Pre-Nazi Germany:
The Youth Movement, the Gay Movement, and Male Bonding Before Hitler's Rise:
Original Transcript from "Der Eigene," the First Gay Journal in the World,
trans. Hubert Kennedy. New York: Haworth Press, 1991.
Plant, Richard. The Pink Triangle: The Nazi War Against Homosexuals. New
York: Henry Holt and Company, 1986.
Porter, Jack Nunan. Sexual Politics in the Third Reich: The Persecution of
the Homosexuals During the Holocaust: A Bibliography and Introductory Essay.
Montreal: Concordia University, 1991.
Rector, Frank. The Nazi Extermination of Homosexuals. New York: Stein and
Day, 1981.
Sherman, Martin. Bent. New York: Avon Books, 1979. Historical drama about
gay men in Nazi Germany.
Ulrichs, Karl Heinrich. Riddle of Man-Manly Love: The Pioneering Work on Male
Homosexuality, trans. Michael A. Lombardi-Nash. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus
Books, 1994. Nineteenth-century essays arguing that homosexuality is natural,
not a disease or a sin.
GREECE:
Hale, Keith. In the Land of Alexander: Gay Travels, with History and
Politics, in Hungary, Yugoslavia, Turkey, and Greece. Boston: Alyson
Publications, 1990.
King, Francis Henry. Yesterday Came Suddenly: An Autobiography. London:
Constable, 1993. Describes British author's sexual initiation in Italy and
Greece.
Liddell, Robert. Cavafy: A Biography. New York: Schocken Books, 1976.
Greek gay poet Constantine Cavafy (1863-1933).
Tillman, Lynne. Cast in Doubt. New York: Poseidon Press, 1992. Novel about
an aging gay American expatriate living on the island of Crete with his Greek
boyfriend.
IRELAND:
Boyd, Clodagh, et al., eds. Out for Ourselves: The Lives of Irish Lesbians
and Gay Men. Dublin: Dublin Lesbian and Gay Men's Collectives and Women's
Community Press, 1986.
Irish Council for Civil Liberties. Equality Now for Lesbians and Gay Men.
Dublin: ICCL, 1990.
Rose, Kieran. Diverse Communities: The Evolution of Lesbian and Gay Politics
in Ireland. Cork: Cork University Press, 1994.
ITALY:
Aldrich, Robert. The Seduction of the Mediterranean: Writing, Art, and
Homosexual Fantasy. New York: Routledge, 1993. Southern Europe, especially
Italy, as a lure to northern homosexuals from the 1770s to the 1950s.
Brown, Judith C. Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance
Italy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. True story of Sister
Benedetta Carlini, a mystic tried and imprisoned in the 17th century.
Burns, John Horne. The Gallery. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1947. Novel
set in post-WWII Italy.
King, Francis Henry. Yesterday Came Suddenly: An Autobiography. London:
Constable, 1993. Describes British author's sexual initiation in Italy and
Greece.
Mann, Thomas. Death in Venice and Other Stories. New York: Knopf, 1991.
Classic tale of homosexual obsession.
Merrill, James Ingram. A Different Person: A Memoir. New York: Knopf, 1993.
American poet's life with gay expatriates in Italy in the early 1950s.
NETHERLANDS:
Mendes-Leite, Rommel, & De Busscher, Pierre-Olivier, eds. Gay Studies from
the French Cultures: Voices from France, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, and the
Netherlands. New York: The Haworth Press, 1993.
Research Programme: Information Presented on the Occasion of the Site Visit
of the World Health Organization, December 19th, 1988, University of Utrecht.
Utrecht: Department of Gay and Lesbian Studies, University of Utrecht, 1988.
Sandfort, Theo. Boys on Their Contacts with Men: A Study of Sexually
Expressed Friendships, trans. from Dutch. Elmhurst, NY: Global Academic
Publishers, 1987.
Van Naerssen, A. X., ed. Gay Life in Dutch Society. Binghamton, NY:
Harrington Park Press, 1987. (Published first under title Interdisciplinary
Research on Homosexuality in the Netherlands.)
Weinberg, Martin S., & Williams, Colin J. Male Homosexuals: Their Problems
and Adaptations. New York: Oxford University Press, 1974. Studies of gay
men in the U.S., Denmark, and the Netherlands.
RUSSIA:
Burgin, Diana L. Sophia Parnok: The Life and Work of Russia's Sappho. New
York: New York University Press, 1994. Parnok (1885-1933) was an openly
lesbian poet, critic, and translator.
Costlow, Jane T., Sandler, Stephanie, & Vowles, Judith, eds. Sexuality
and the Body in Russian Culture. Stanford, CA: Stanford University
Press, 1993. Includes section by Diana Burgin on lesbianism in Russian
literature.
Erofeyev, Victor. Moscow Beauty: A Novel, trans. Andrew Reynolds. New York:
Viking Penguin, 1993. Life of a Russian bisexual female prostitute.
Feiler, Lily. Marina Tsvetaeva: The Double Beat of Heaven and Hell. Durham,
NC: Duke University Press, 1994. Biography of Russian bisexual poet and
essayist (1892-1941).
Feinstein, Elaine. A Captive Lion: The Life of Marina Tsvetayeva. New York:
Dutton, 1987. Biography of Russian bisexual poet and essayist (1892-1941).
Gagnon, J. Maris. Death to Reach a Star: A Novel. Seattle: Twin Omega
Press, 1993. Fiction about gay men in Russia.
Gessen, Masha. The Rights of Lesbians and Gay Men in the Russian Federation.
San Francisco: International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission, 199?.
Karlinsky, Simon. Marina Cvetaeva: Her Life and Art. Berkeley: University
of California Press, 1966.
Karlinsky, Simon. Marina Tsvetaeva: The Woman, Her World, and Her Poetry.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985.
Karlinsky, Simon. The Sexual Labyrinth of Nikolai Gogol. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1992. Gogol's (1809-1852) relations with men.
Kon, Igor, & Riordan, James, ed. Sex and Russian Society. Bloomington, IN:
Indiana University Press, 1991.
Kuzmin, Mikhail A. Selected Prose and Poetry, trans. Michael Green. Ann
Arbor, MI: Ardis Press, 1980.
Kuzmin, Mikhail A. Wings: Prose and Poetry, trans. Neil Granoien & Michael
Green. Ann Arbor, MI: Ardis Press, 1972. Coming-out novel originally
published in 1907.
Lardo, Vincent. The Prince and the Pretender. Boston: Alyson Publications,
1984. A novel of romance, wealth, and intrigue, about a young gay man in
Manhattan, heir to the Russian royal family.
Malmstad, John E., ed. Studies in the Life and Works of Mixail Kuzmin.
Vienna: Gesellschaft zur Forderung Slawistischer Studien, 1989.
Mamonova, Tatyana. Russian Women's Studies: Essays on Sexism in Soviet
Culture. New York: Pergamom Press, 1988. Topics include lesbianism and the
law.
Poznansky, Alexander. Tchaikovsky: The Quest for the Inner Man. New York:
Schirmer Books, 1991. The author, a Russian emigre, writes about the life (as
opposed to the music) of Russia's homosexual composer (1840-93).
Schweitzer, Viktoria. Tsvetaeva, trans. Robert Chandler, H. T. Willetts, &
Peter Norman. New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1993. Biography of
Russian bisexual poet and essayist Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941); "makes George
Sand seem like Emily Dickinson."
Shulga, Natalia. Mashka and Asiunia. In, Masha Gessen, ed., Half a
Revolution: Contemporary Russian Women's Short Fiction. Pittsburgh, PA:
Cleis Press, 1995.
Taubman, Jane. A Life Through Poetry: Marina Tsvetaeva's Lyric Diary.
Columbus, OH: Slavica Publishers, 1989.
Veispak, Teet, ed. Sexual Minorities and Society: The Changing Attitudes
Toward Homosexuality in Twentieth Century Europe: Facts about Homosexuality
in Soviet Russia and Current Estonia. Tallinn: Eesti Teaduse Akadeemia
Ajaloo Instituut.
Zlobin, Vladimir. A Difficult Soul: Zinaida Gippius, ed. Simon Karlinsky.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980. Biography of lesbian poet
and diarist Gippius (1869-1945).
SPAIN:
Binding, Paul. Lorca: The Gay Imagination. East Haven, CT: InBook, 1985.
Homosexual themes in the works of Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936).
Cernuda, Luis. The Young Sailor and Other Poems, trans. Rick Lipinski. San
Francisco: Gay Sunshine Press, 1987.
Smith, Paul Julian, & Bergmann, Emilie L. Entiendes?: Lesbian and Gay
Writing in Spain and Spanish America. Durham, NC: Duke University Press,
1995.
Spartacus National Editions Espana: Guide for Gay Men. East Haven, CT:
InBook, 1993.
OTHER EUROPE:
Aldrich, Robert. The Seduction of the Mediterranean: Writing, Art, and
Homosexual Fantasy. New York: Routledge, 1993. Southern Europe, especially
Italy, as a lure to northern homosexuals from the 1770s to the 1950s.
Dynes, Wayne R., & Donaldson, Stephen, eds. History of Homosexuality in Europe
and America. New York: Garland Publishing, 1992.
Hale, Keith. In the Land of Alexander: Gay Travels, with History and
Politics, in Hungary, Yugoslavia, Turkey, and Greece. Boston: Alyson
Publications, 1990.
Hooven, F. Valentine, III. Tom of Finland: His Life and Times. New York:
St. Martin's Press, Inc., 1993. Biography of popular gay artist Touko
Laaksonen; includes descriptions of gay life in Finland, England, and Germany.
Parker, Mike, ed. Northern Scene. East Haven, CT: InBook, 1993.
Picano, Felice. Men Who Loved Me: A Memoir in the Form of a Novel. New York:
New American Library, 1990. A Gay Italian-American tours Europe in the 1960s.
Pollak, Michael. The Second Plague of Europe: AIDS Prevention and Sexual
Transmission Among Men in Western Europe. Binghamton, NY: Harrington Park
Press, 1993.
Stehling, Thomas. Medieval Latin Poems of Male Love and Friendship. New York:
Garland Publishing, 1984.
Tatchell, Peter. Europe in the Pink: Lesbian and Gay Equality in the New
Europe. London: Gay Men's Press, 1992. An easy-to-understand guide to the
legal situation for gay men and lesbians in Europe.
Van Gelder, Lindsay, & Brandt, Pamela Robin. Are You Two--Together? A Gay and
Lesbian Grand Tour of Europe. New York: Random House, 1991.
Veispak, Teet, ed. Sexual Minorities and Society: The Changing Attitudes
Toward Homosexuality in Twentieth Century Europe: Facts about Homosexuality
in Soviet Russia and Current Estonia. Tallinn: Eesti Teaduse Akadeemia
Ajaloo Instituut.
Waaldijk, Kees, & Clapham, Andrew. Homosexuality: A European Community Issue:
Essays on Lesbian and Gay Rights in European Law and Policy. Boston: M.
Nijhoff Publishers, 1993.
Yourcenar, Marguerite. Alexis, trans. from French by Walter Kaiser. New
York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1984. Young aristocrat in central Europe
during the Hapsburg empire struggles with his homosexuality.
3. LATIN AMERICA:
BRAZIL:
Caminha, Adolfo. Bom-Crioulo: The Black Man and the Cabin Boy, trans. E. A.
Lacey. San Francisco: Gay Sunshine Press, 1982. First published in Brazil
in 1895.
Mendes-Leite, Rommel, & De Busscher, Pierre-Olivier, eds. Gay Studies from
the French Cultures: Voices from France, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, and the
Netherlands. New York: The Haworth Press, 1993.
Trevisan, Joao S. Perverts in Paradise, trans. Martin Foreman. East Haven,
CT: InBook, 1986. History of gay men in Brazil.
Whitam, Frederick L., & Mathy, Robin M. Male Homosexuality in Four Societies:
Brazil, Guatemala, the Philippines, and the United States. New York: Praeger
Publishers, 1986.
CUBA:
Conchez, Antonio L. A Gay Cuban in Exile: Memoires and Letters of a Refugee,
trans. Michael A. Lombardi. Los Angeles: Urania Manuscripts, 1983.
Improper Conduct. New York: Cinevista. A film documenting gay victims of
Cuban oppression during the Revolution.
Leiner, Marvin. Sexual Politics in Cuba: Machismo, Homosexuality, and AIDS.
Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994.
Obejas, Achy. We Came All the Way from Cuba so You Could Dress Like That?
Pittsburgh: Cleis Press, 1994. Stories by a Cuban-American lesbian.
Young, Allen. Gays Under the Cuban Revolution. San Francisco: Grey Fox
Press, 1981.
MEXICO:
Alarcon, Francisco X. No Golden Gate for Us. Tesuque, NM: Pennywhistle
Press, 1993. Poems by a gay Mexican-American.
David, Eduardo. Gay Mexico: An Insider's Guide. San Francisco: Orchid
House, 1994.
Gomez-Vega, Ibis. Send My Roots Rain. San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books, 1991.
Chicana lesbian writer.
Itiel, Joseph. De Onda: A Gay Guide to Mexico and Its People. San Francisco:
International Wavelength, 1990.
Lumsden, Ian G. Homosexuality, Society and the State in Mexico. Toronto:
Canadian Gay Archives, 1991.
Moraga, Cherrie. The Last Generation: Poetry and Prose. Boston: South End
Press, 1993. A moving book about the Chicana lesbian experience.
Moraga, Cherrie. Loving in the War Years: Lo Que Nunca Paso por Sus Labios.
Boston: South End Press, 1993. Stories, essays, and poems by a Chicana
lesbian.
Paz y Liberacion. Houston, TX: [s.n.], 1979-. Gay Chicano magazine.
Trujillo, Carla, ed. Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About.
Berkeley, CA: Third Woman Press, 1991. Includes essays, fiction, poetry, and
autobiography.
Zapata, Luis. Adonis Garcia: A Picaresque Novel, trans. E. A. Lacey. San
Francisco: Gay Sunshine Press, 1981.
OTHER LATIN AMERICA:
Alarcon, Norma, Moraga, Cherrie, & Castillo, Ana, eds. The Sexuality of
Latinas. Berkeley, CA: Third Woman Press, 1993.
Campo, Rafael. The Other Man Was Me: A Voyage to the New World. Houston:
Arte Publico Press, 1994. Poems by a gay Hispanic-American.
Cuadros, Gil. City of God. San Francisco: City Lights, 1994. Literary
collection of a gay Hispanic-American AIDS patient.
Foster, David W. Gay and Lesbian Themes in Latin American Writing. Austin,
TX: University of Texas Press, 1991.
Foster, David W., ed. Latin American Writers on Gay and Lesbian Themes: A
Bio-Critical Sourcebook. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994.
Foster, David W. Some Proposals for the Study of Latin American Gay Culture.
In, David W. Foster, Cultural Diversity in Latin American Literature.
Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1994.
Garza, Luis Alberto de la. Preliminary Chicano and Latino Lesbian and Gay
Bibliography. Berkeley, CA: Archivos Rodrigo Reyes, 1994.
Howes, Robert. Select Bibliography of Latin American Publications Dealing
with Homosexuality. [London?: s.n., 1986]
Itiel, Joseph, & Del Pizzo, Nancy. Pura Vida! Gay and Lesbian Costa Rica.
San Francisco: Orchid House, 1993.
Kaminsky, Amy K. Reading the Body Politic: Feminist Criticism and Latin
American Women Writers. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press,
1993. Includes essays on lesbianism in literature.
Leyland, Winston, ed. My Deep Dark Pain Is Love: A Collection of Latin
American Gay Fiction; trans. from Spanish and Portuguese by E. A. Lacey. San
Francisco: Gay Sunshine Press, 1983.
Leyland, Winston, ed. Now the Volcano: An Anthology of Latin American Gay
Literature; trans. Erskine Lane, Franklin D. Blanton, & Simon Karlinsky. San
Francisco: Gay Sunshine Press, 1979.
Machismo. New York: G. T. Publishing, 1993-. Gay Latino photographic
magazine.
Murray, Stephen O. Latin American Male Homosexualities. Albuquerque, NM:
University of New Mexico Press, 1995.
Murray, Stephen O. Male Homosexuality in Central and South America. San
Francisco: Instituto Obregon, 1987.
Puig, Manuel. Kiss of the Spider Woman; trans. Thomas Colchie. New York:
Random House, 1980. Play by an Argentine dramatist involving the relationship
between a homosexual and a revolutionary sharing a prison cell in Latin
America.
Ramos, Juanita, ed. Companeras: Latina Lesbians (An Anthology). New York:
Routledge, 1994. Oral histories, essays, poems, short stories, and artwork.
Smith, Paul Julian, & Bergmann, Emilie L. Entiendes?: Lesbian and Gay
Writing in Spain and Spanish America. Durham, NC: Duke University Press,
1995.
Whitam, Frederick L., & Mathy, Robin M. Male Homosexuality in Four Societies:
Brazil, Guatemala, the Philippines, and the United States. New York: Praeger
Publishers, 1986.
Wilson, Carter. Treasures on Earth: A Novel. Boston: Alyson Publications,
1990. During the 1911 Machu Picchu expedition, an American photographer and
a Peruvian guide search for love.
4. NORTH AFRICA AND MIDDLE EAST:
PERSIA:
Sa'di. The Bustan, trans. H. Wilberforce Clarke. London: Darf, 1985.
Homoerotic poetry from 13th-century Persia.
Sa'di. The Gulistan, or Rose Garden of Sa'di, trans. Edward Rehatsek. London:
Allen and Unwin, 1964. Homoerotic poetry from 13th-century Persia.
Sa'di. Morals Pointed and Tales Adorned: The Bustan of Sa'di, trans. G. M.
Wickens. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1974. Homoerotic poetry
from 13th-century Persia.
Yohanna, John D. The Poet Sa'di: A Persian Humanist. Lanham, MD: University
Press of America, 1987.
OTHER NORTH AFRICA AND MIDDLE EAST:
Al-Tifashi, Ahmad, ed. The Delight of Hearts: Or, What You Will Not Find in
Any Book, trans. from French by E. A. Lacey. San Francisco: Gay Sunshine
Press, 1988. 13th-century Arabic work.
Bloch, Alice. The Law of Return: A Novel. Watertown, MA: Persephone Press,
1983. An American woman settles in Israel, explores Orthodox Judaism, and
comes to grips with her homosexuality.
Carr, Jan. Harem Wish. New York: Dutton, 1994. Fiction about lesbians in
Arab countries.
Garcia Gomez, Emilio, ed. In Praise of Boys: Moorish Poems from Al-Andalus,
trans. from Spanish by Erskine Lane. San Francisco: Gay Sunshine Press,
1975.
Genet, Jean. Prisoner of Love, trans. from French by Barbara Bray. Hanover,
NH: University Press of New England, 1992. Semi-surreal autobiography of
Genet's (1910-86) life with PLO soldiers in Jordan and Lebanon.
Mrabet, Mohammed. Chocolate Creams and Dollars, trans. from Arabic by Paul
Bowles. New York: Inanout Press, 1993. Mrabet, a Tangiers storyteller,
relates a loosely autobiographical story of a Moroccan houseboy.
Paz y Liberacion (Africa/Middle East ed.). Houston, TX: [s.n.], 1989-.
Gay magazine.
Schmitt, Arno, & Sofer, Jehoeda, eds. Sexuality and Eroticism Among Males in
Moslem Societies. New York: The Haworth Press, 1992. Includes studies of
male homosexuality in Morocco, Syria, Iran, Turkey, and Israel.
5. SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA:
SOUTH AFRICA:
Fine, Derrick. Lesbian and Gay Rights. Cape Town: Social Justice Resource
Project/Legal Education Action Project, Institute of Criminology, University
of Cape Town, 1992.
Gevisser, Mark, & Cameron, Edwin, eds. Defiant Desire: Gay and Lesbian Lives
in South Africa. New York: Routledge, 1994.
Issacs, Gordon, & McKendrick, Brian. Male Homosexuality in South Africa:
Identity Formation, Culture and Crisis. New York: Oxford University Press,
1992.
Krouse, Matthew, ed. The Invisible Ghetto: Lesbian and Gay Writing from South
Africa. East Haven, CT: InBook, 1993.
Link. Johannesburg, South Africa: The Association, 1983-. South African gay
monthly magazine.
Retief, Glen. The Policing of Subjugated Sexualities: A Bibliography. Cape
Town: Institute of Criminology, University of Cape Town, 1992.
Schurink, Evanthe, & Schurink, W. J. AIDS: Lay Perceptions of a Group of Gay
Men. Pretoria, South Africa: Human Sciences Research Council, 1990.
Sher, Antony. The Indoor Boy. New York: Viking, 1992. Novel set in South
Africa.
Sweetman, David. Mary Renault: A Biography. New York: Harcourt, Brace,
1993. British lesbian novelist who lived in South Africa.
OTHER SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA:
Beguin, ReBecca. (Searching for Miss Poole) In Unlikely Places. Norwich, VT:
New Victoria Publishers, 1990. Lesbian novel set in 19th-century Africa.
Paz y Liberacion (Africa/Middle East ed.). Houston, TX: [s.n.], 1989-.
Gay magazine.
6. SOUTH ASIA:
INDIA:
Ackerley, J. R. Hindoo Holiday: An Indian Journal. New York: Simon &
Schuster, 1990. British gay author's account of his life as secretary and
confidant to an Indian maharajah. (First published in 1932.)
Ali, Agha Shahid. A Nostalgist's Map of America: Poems. New York: W.W.
Norton, l99l. Author is from Kashmir and now lives in the U.S.
Bombay Dost. Bombay: Ashok R..K., 1991-. Gay & lesbian Indian magazine.
Chughtai, Ismat. The Quilt & Other Stories, trans. from Urdu by Tahira Naqvid
& Syeda S. Hameed. Riverdale-on-Hudson, NY: Sheep Meadow Press, 1994. The
title story concerns a woman who, neglected by her husband, shares a bed with
her female servant. The author successfully defended herself against
obscenity charges when the story was first published in 1942.
De, Shobha. Strange Obsession. New York: Penguin Books, l992. Controversial
novel on a lesbian theme. Author is an Indian journalist.
Devi, Shakuntala. The World of Homosexuals. New Delhi: Vikas Publishing
House, 1977.
Gomez, Jewelle. Forty-Three Septembers: Essays. Ithaca, NY: Firebrand
Books, 1993. Autobiography of an Indian-African-American lesbian.
Harry, Joseph, & Das, Man Singh, eds. Homosexuality in International
Perspective. New Delhi: Vikas Publishing House, 1980.
Kakar, Sudhir. Intimate Relations: Exploring Indian Sexuality. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1990.
Kala, Arvind. Invisible Minority: The Unknown World of the Indian Homosexual.
New Delhi: Dynamic Books, 1991.
Kalliat, Prem, director. Jareena: Portrait of a Hijra. New York: Third
World Newsreel, 1990. A 25-minute documentary exploring the life of a
transsexual and her community in South India.
Kureishi, Hanif. The Buddha of Suburbia. New York: Viking Penguin, 1990.
In this satiric view of 1960s-70s English popular culture, an Anglo-Indian
bisexual man leaves the suburban lifestyle to experience disparate cultures,
classes, and genders.
Lapierre, Dominique. The City of Joy, trans. from French by Kathryn Spink.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1985. Set in Calcutta; includes a description
of the hijras and their origins.
Less than Gay: A Citizens' Report on the Status of Homosexuality in India.
New Delhi: AIDS Bhedbhav Virodhi Andolan, 1991.
Meer, Ameena. Bombay Talkie. New York: Serpent's Tail, 1994. Novel
about two Indian cousins' search for identity: one is a straight woman
who grew up in New York, the other a gay man who grew up in Paris.
Mootoo, Shani. Out on Main Street and Other Stories. Vancouver: Press Gang
Publishers, 1993. Stories by an Indo-Trinidadian-Canadian lesbian.
Namjoshi, Suniti. Because of India: Selected Poems and Fables. London:
Only Woman, 1989. These essays and excerpts from Namjoshi's work provide
insight into her development both as a writer and as a person.
Namjoshi, Suniti. The Conversations of Cow. London: Women's Press, 1985.
One of the characters is a "misogynistic lesbian."
Namjoshi, Suniti. Feminist Fables, 2d ed. London: Sheba Feminist
Publishers, 1990. Explicitly lesbian content in the form of terse, witty
fables.
Namjoshi, Suniti. Flesh and Paper. New York: Women Make Movies, 1990.
A 26-minute film in which lesbian writer Namjoshi and others discuss her life
and work, with readings of her poetry. Born into an Indian royal family,
She now resides in England. Her poems, fables, and novels are characterized
by her wry and satirical humor, informed by both a lesbian consciousness and
a deep Indian cultural framework.
Nanda, Serena. Neither Man nor Woman: The Hijras of India. Belmont, CA:
Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1990. Study of the eunuchs and transsexuals of
India.
Rashid, Ian Iqbal. Black Markets, White Boyfriends, and Other Acts of Elision.
Toronto: TSAR, l99l. Rashid is a poet of the Indian Diaspora: born to
Indian parents in East Africa, grew up in Canada, lives in London.
Seth, Vikram. The Golden Gate: A Novel in Verse. New York: Random House,
l986. Sonnets by an Indian poet, dealing with gay and bisexual themes in
California.
Sharma, Satish Kumar. Hijras, the Labelled Deviants. New Delhi: Gian
Publishing House, 1989. Analytical study on the congenital hermaphrodites and
castrated eunuchs of India.
Singh, Khushwant, & De, Shobha, eds. Uncertain Liaisons: Sex, Strife, and
Togetherness in Urban India. New Delhi: Viking Penguin, 1993. Includes a
section on homosexuality by Ashok Row Kavi.
Singh, Nidhi, producer & director. Khush Refugees. San Francisco: NAATA
(National Asian American Telecommunications Association), 1991. A 32-minute
videorecording about an immigrant from India and an ex-marine from Ohio
trying to assimilate in San Francisco's gay community. Provides sensitive
crosscultural perspectives on the nature and expression of intimacy.
Vyas, M. D., & Shingala, Yogesh. The Life Style of the Eunuchs. Flushing, NY:
Asia Book Corporation of America, 1987. A study of the hijras of Vadodara
City, Gujarat, India.
Yorke, Michael, director. Eunuchs: India's Third Gender. BBC?, 1991.
A 40-minute, made-for-BBC look at some of the more than half a million
eunuchs--or hijras--in India today. This film captures the pleasures
and contradictions of a living alternative to Western ideas about gender.
Zwilling, Leonard. Homosexuality as Seen in Indian Buddhist Texts. In,
Jose Ignacio Cabezon, ed., Buddhism, Sexuality, and Gender. Albany, NY:
State University of New York Press, 1992.
OTHER SOUTH ASIA:
Khush Khayal. Toronto: KHUSH, South Asian Lesbian and Gay Association,
1989-. Publishes 3 times a year.
Kureishi, Hanif. My Beautiful Laundrette and The Rainbow Sign. Boston:
Faber and Faber, 1986. "Laundrette" is the screenplay of Kureishi's film
about a romance between an Anglo-Pakistani and a London skinhead.
Parmar, Pratibha, producer & director. Khush. New York: Women Make Movies,
1991. A 24-minute videorecording of interviews with South Asian gay men and
lesbians living in the West and in India. Discussion covers topics of racism
within the Western gay community; the difficulty of developing an Asian vs. a
white concept of homosexuality; the cultural pressure to marry; persecution of
gay men in India; and the implications of caste barriers in the efforts to
build a united gay and lesbian Indian community.
Ratti, Rakesh, ed. A Lotus of Another Color: An Unfolding of the South Asian
Gay and Lesbian Experience. Boston: Alyson Publications, 1993. Gay men and
lesbians from India, Pakistan, and other South Asian countries discuss their
challenges and accomplishments.
Selvadurai, Shyam. Funny Boy. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1994. A
homosexual boy's bittersweet passage to maturity is hauntingly set against
growing political tensions in Sri Lanka.
Shamakami. San Francisco: Shamakami, 1990-. Quarterly magazine for South
Asian feminist lesbian and bisexual women.
Trikone. San Jose, CA: The Group, 1986-. Quarterly magazine for gay &
lesbian South Asians.
7. EAST ASIA AND PACIFIC:
CHINA:
Hinsch, Bret. Passions of the Cut Sleeve: The Male Homosexual Tradition in
China. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1990.
Law Reform Commission of Hong Kong. Report on Laws Governing Homosexual
Conduct. Hong Kong: The Commission, 1983. In Chinese and English.
Lee, Lilian (Li, Pi-Hua, or Li, Pik-Wah). Farewell to My Concubine: A Novel,
trans. Andrea Lingenfelter. New York: William Morrow, 1993. Novel by a Hong
Kong writer, about a love triangle involving Chinese opera singers. Basis of
the award-winning film.
Li, Yu. The Carnal Prayer Mat = Rou Putuan, trans. Patrick Hanan. New York:
Ballantine Books, 1990. 17th century erotic satire.
Min, Anchee. Red Azalea. New York: Pantheon Books, 1994. A Chinese
lesbian's experiences coming of age during the Cultural Revolution and her
relationship with a woman while she was working on a collective farm.
Pai, Hsien-Yung. Crystal Boys: A Novel; trans. Howard Goldblatt. San
Francisco: Gay Sunshine Press, 1990. This Taiwanese novel concerns young gay
boys, rejected by their families, hanging out in a park and gay bar in Taipei.
Two Films by Ang Lee. Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 1994. Includes article
on award-winning Taiwanese film "The Wedding Banquet" by Neil Peng, Ang Lee,
& James Schamus.
Wong, Norman. Cultural revolution: Stories. New York: Persea Books, 1994.
A series of connected stories about a Chinese-American youth growing up in
Hawaii and California and visiting China; deals with the conflict between his
awakening gay identity and his parents' traditional culture.
JAPAN:
Bornoff, Nicholas. Pink Samurai: Love, Marriage and Sex in Contemporary
Japan. New York: Pocket Books, 1991.
Collcutt, Martin. Five Mountains: The Rinzai Zen Monastic Institution in
Medieval Japan. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981. Includes
discussion of homosexual relationships within the monastery.
Hasegawa, Sadao. Sadao Hasegawa: Paintings and Drawings. Boston: Alyson
Publications, 1990. Japanese homoerotic art.
Ihara, Saikaku. Comrade Loves of the Samurai, trans. Edward Powys Mathers.
Boston: Charles E. Tuttle, 1972. 17th-century stories in 1928 translation.
Ihara, Saikaku. The Great Mirror of Male Love, trans. Paul Gordon Schalow.
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1990. Stories of Samurai and
Kabuki actors.
Ihara, Saikaku. The Life of an Amorous Man, trans. Kengi Mamada. Rutland,
VT: C. E. Tuttle, 1964.
Leupp, Gary. Male Colors: The Construction of Homosexuality in Tokugawa
Japan (1503-1868). Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1995.
Levy, Howard S. Sex, Love, and the Japanese. Washington: Warm-Soft Village
Press, 1971.
Matsui, Midori. Little Girls Were Little Boys: Displaced Femininity in the
Representation of Homosexuality in Japanese Girls' Comics. In, Sneja Marina
Gunew & Anna Yeatman, eds., Feminism and the Politics of Difference.
Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1993.
Mishima, Yukio. Confessions of a Mask, trans. Meredith Weatherby. New York:
New Directions, 1968. Somewhat autobiographical novel about a teen-age boy
accepting his homosexuality while concealing it from his fiancee. (First
published in Japan in 1949.)
Murakami, Ryu. Coin Locker Babies. New York: Kodansha America, Inc., 1994.
Novel translated from Japanese.
Robertson, Jennifer Ellen. Butch and Femme On and Off the Takarazuka Stage:
Gender, Sexuality, and Social Organization in Japan. East Lansing, MI:
Michigan State University, 1989. Lesbianism in Japan.
Schalow, Paul Gordon. Kukai and the Tradition of Male Love in Japanese
Buddhism. In, Jose Ignacio Cabezon, ed., Buddhism, Sexuality, and Gender.
Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1992.
Watanabe, Tsuneo, & Iwata, Jun'ichi. The Love of the Samurai: A Thousand
Years of Japanese Homosexuality, trans. D. R. Roberts. Boston: Alyson
Publications, 1989.
Yoshimoto, Banana. Kitchen, trans. Megan Backus. New York: Grove Press,
1993. This popular novel includes portrayal of a transvestite character.
NEW GUINEA:
Herdt, Gilbert H. Guardians of the Flutes: Idioms of Masculinity. New York:
Columbia University Press, 1987. About the Sambia people of Papua New Guinea.
Herdt, Gilbert H. The Sambia: Ritual and Gender in New Guinea. New York:
Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1987.
Schneebaum, Tobias. Where the Spirits Dwell: An Odyssey in the New Guinea
Jungle. New York: Grove Press, 1988. About the Asmat people of Irian Jaya.
PHILIPPINES:
Garcia, Neil. Closet Quivers. Quezon City: Kalikasan Press, 1991. The first
book of gay poetry in the Philippines.
Garcia, Neil, & Remoto, Danton, eds. Ladlad: An Anthology of Philippine Gay
Writing. Metro Manila: Anvil, 1994. Poems, stories, plays, and essays in
Filipino and English.
Holmes, Margarita Go-Singco. A Different Love: Being Gay in the Philippines.
Metro Manila: Anvil, 1993. A collection of essays.
Itiel, Joseph. Philippine Diary: A Gay Guide to the Philippines. San
Francisco: International Wavelength, 1989.
Mathews, Paul W. Male Prostitution: Two Monographs. Sydney: Australia Book
Company, 1987. Observations of male prostitution in Manila.
Pichay, Nick. Ang Lunes Na Mahirap Bunuin (The Intransigence of Monday).
Quezon City: Sipat Publications, 1993. Gay poems in Filipino and English.
Remoto, Danton. Seduction and Solitude. Metro Manila: Anvil, 1995. Personal
essays on writing and homosexuality.
Remoto, Danton. Skin Voices Faces. Metro Manila: Anvil, 1991. Gay poems.
Rodriguez, Nice. Throw It to the River. Toronto: Women's Press, 1993.
Fiction about lesbians in the Philippines and Canada.
Whitam, Frederick L., & Mathy, Robin M. Male Homosexuality in Four Societies:
Brazil, Guatemala, the Philippines, and the United States. New York: Praeger
Publishers, 1986.
SINGAPORE:
Heng, Russell. Lest The Demons Get To Me. In, Fat Virgins, Fast Cars, and
Asian Values: A Collection of Plays from Theatreworks' Writers Lab.
Singapore: Times Books International, 1993. Banned play with transvestite
protagonist.
Jeyaretam, Philip. Abraham's Promise. Singapore: Times Books International,
1994. Novel about a teacher who learns to accept his son's homosexuality.
Author is son of Singapore's opposition leader.
Lee, Johann S. Peculiar Chris. Singapore: Cannon International, 1992.
Novel about a gay National Serviceman who comes out.
Moo, Joash. Sisterhood: The Untold Story. Singapore: Times Books
International, 1990. True stories of transvestites in Singapore.
THAILAND:
Allyn, Eric G., ed. The Dove Coos = Nok Kao Kan: Gay Experiences by the Men
of Thailand, trans. Nukul Benchamat & Somboon Inpradith. Bangkok & San
Francisco: Bua Luang Publishing Company, 1992. Stories by readers of three
Thai gay magazines: Midway, Neon, and Weekendmen.
Allyn, Eric G., ed. The Dove Coos II: Collection 2, trans. David Jonathan;
adapted for Western readers by E. G. Allyn & Samorn Chaiyana. Bangkok & San
Francisco: Bua Luang Publishing Company, 1994. Selections from Thai gay
magazines.
Allyn, Eric G. The Men of Thailand: Where to Sa'nook' in Thailand: Noom Thai
Guide for Gay Tourists. Bangkok & San Francisco: Bua Luang Publishing
Company, 1991. Listings from monthly column in Midway magazine, Bangkok.
Allyn, Eric G. The Men of Thailand Revisited: Trees in the Same Forest.
Bangkok & San Francisco: Bua Luang Publishing Company, 1991.
Berry, Chris. A Bit on the Side: East-West Topographies of Desire. Sydney:
EMPress, 1994. Discusses the film Good Woman of Bangkok and critiques Asian
governments that maintain gay rights are only a Western issue.
Jackson, Peter A. Dear Uncle Go--Male Homosexuality in Thailand. Bangkok:
Floating Lotus, 1995. Revision of Male Homosexuality in Thailand (below).
Jackson, Peter A. The Intrinsic Quality of Skin. Bangkok: Floating Lotus
Publications, 1994. Race, masculinity and homosexuality in Thailand.
Jackson, Peter A. Male Homosexuality in Thailand: An Interpretation of
Contemporary Sources. Elmhurst, NY: Global Academic Publishers, 1989.
Translation and analysis of letters to and responses from advice columnist
Aa Go Paak-naam, originally published in two Thai magazines Plaek and
Mahatsajan.
Sribuaiam, Kanongnij. Living Together: Rights of Heterosexual and Homosexual
Couples in the U.S. and Thailand. 1991. In Chulalongkorn Law Review, Vol. 6
(1989-1990).
OTHER ASIA AND PACIFIC:
Best Guide ... Asia, Australasia & South Pacific Islands. New York: Eden
Cross, 1990. Gay travel guide.
Best Guide to the North Pacific & Orient. 2nd ed. Amsterdam: Bookscene,
1992. Gay guide to Brunei, China, Guam, Hawaii, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan,
Korea, Laos, Macau, Malaysia, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Philippines,
Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand.
Diaman, N. A., producer & director. Cut Sleeve: Lesbians and Gays of Asian/
Pacific Ancestry. San Francisco: Persona Video, 1991. A 24-minute
videorecording in which individuals of Asian and Pacific Island backgrounds
discuss their attitudes and experiences as homosexuals.
Dimensions of Desire. Los Angeles: UCLA Asian American Studies Center, 1994.
Special issue of Amerasia Journal; includes autobiographical accounts and
critical essays about gay and lesbian Asian/Pacific Americans.
Dunsford, Cathie. Cowrie. New York: Spinifex Press, 1994. A lesbian novel
from the South Pacific.
Dynes, Wayne R., & Donaldson, Stephen, eds. Asian Homosexuality. New York:
Garland Publishing, 1992.
Hanawa, Yukiko, ed. Circuits of Desire. Durham, NC: Duke University
Press, 1994. Special issue of Positions: East Asia Cultural Critique,
vol. 2, no. 1 (Spring 1994). Anthology on Asian homosexuality, including
Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, Thai.
Herdt, Gilbert S., ed. Ritualized Homosexuality in Melanesia. Berkeley, CA:
University of California Press, 1984.
Lim-Hing, Sharon, ed. The Very Inside: Writings by Asian and Pacific Islander
Lesbian and Bisexual Women. Toronto: Sister Vision, 1994.
Murray, Stephen O., ed. Oceanic Homosexualities. New York: Garland
Publishing, 1992. Includes studies ranging from Madagascar to Australasia:
Filipino callboys; Siberian shamans; ancient samurais and contemporary
lesbians of Japan; aristocratic traditions of Hawaii; also Korean, Thai,
Indonesian, and Aleut studies.
Paz y Liberacion (Asian ed.). Houston, TX: [s.n.], 1989-. Gay magazine.
Te Awekotuku, Ngahuia. Mana Wahine Maori: Selected Writings on Maori Women's
Art, Culture, and Politics. Auckland, New Zealand: New Women's Press, 1991.
Author is a Maori lesbian.
Te Awekotuku, Ngahuia. Tahuri: Short Stories. Auckland, New Zealand: New
Women's Press, 1989. Stories by a Maori lesbian.
Witness Aloud: Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Asian/Pacific American Writings.
Vol. 2, no. 1 of The APA Journal (spring/summer 1993).
8. NATIVE AMERICAN:
Brant, Beth (Degonwadanti). Mohawk Trail. Ithaca, NY: Firebrand Books, 1985.
Autobiographical and other vignettes by a Canadian Mohawk lesbian.
Brant, Beth (Degonwadanti). Food and Spirits. Ithaca, NY: Firebrand Books,
1991. Stories by a Canadian Mohawk lesbian.
Brant, Beth (Degonwadanti). Writing as Witness: Essay and Talk. Toronto:
Women's Press, 1994.
Dreher, Sarah. Gray Magic: A Stoner McTavish Mystery. Norwich, VT: New
Victoria Publishers, 1993. A lesbian detective novel.
Ebensten, Hanns. Volleyball with the Cuna Indians and Other Gay Travel
Adventures. New York: Viking, 1993.
Fife, Connie. Beneath the Naked Sun: Poetry. Toronto: Sister Vision,
1992. Native Canadian lesbian.
Grahn, Judy. Strange Country This: Lesbianism and North American Indian
Tribes. In, Monika Kehoe, ed., Historical, Literary, and Erotic Aspects of
Lesbianism. New York: Haworth Press, 1986.
Hidalgo-de la Riva, Osa, producer, director, writer, & animator. Mujeria:
Primitive and Proud. California: Royal Eagle Bear Productions, 1992. A
20-minute videorecording presenting a historical survey of Olmeca women
from a lesbian viewpoint.
Hidalgo-de la Riva, Osa. Two Spirits: Native Lesbians and Gays. Santa Cruz,
CA: Presentations Unit, Media Services, University Library, University of
California, Santa Cruz, 1992-3. A 30-minute videorecording examining the
present status of and attitudes toward Native American lesbians and gays.
Lockwood, Daniel. Indian Homosexuality and the Spanish Conquest of America.
Utica, NY: State University of New York College of Technology, 1979.
Newcomb, Franc Johnson. Hosteen Klah: Navaho Medicine Man and Sand Painter.
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1964. Portrait of a 20th-century
Navajo berdache.
Roscoe, Will, ed. Living the Spirit: A Gay American Indian Anthology. New
York: St. Martin's Press, 1988. Historical information, personal accounts,
and fiction; this anthology shows the rich heritage and complex present of gay
American Indians.
Roscoe, Will. The Zuni Man-Woman. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico
Press, 1991. Includes account of We'wha, a 19th-century Zuni berdache.
Smith, Mona M., Toskey, Nan, & the Minnesota American Indian AIDS Task
Force. Honored by the Moon. New York: Women Make Movies, 1990. A
15-minute videorecording presenting the historical role of gays and lesbians
in traditional Indian culture; they were considered to have special powers
as bridges between the two worlds of male and female.
Spanbauer, Tom. The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon: A Novel. New York:
Harper Collins Publishers, 1992.
Steffenson, Kenneth. Manitoba Native Peoples and Homosexuality: Historical
and Contemporary Aspects. Winnipeg: Council on Homosexuality and Religion,
1987.
Williams, Walter L. The Spirit and the Flesh: Sexual Diversity in American
Indian Culture. Boston: Beacon Press, l986.
9. OTHER:
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