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05/01/2009 

Writers of Ancient Greece and Rome
 
Ancient Greek literature openly celebrated same-sex love in its poetry and prose. For the most part, Roman writing on homosexual themes followed the Greek models, though the two cultures held sharply differing attitudes toward love between males.
 
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04/01/2009 

European Art: Nineteenth Century
 
Several nineteenth century European artists and art critics achieved a self-aware homosexual identity that is expressed in both their lives and their works, but lesbianism is only rarely depicted in terms of identity during this period.
 
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02/27/2009 

Lesbians and Sports
 
Lesbians and athletics have been identified with each other since long before the 1969 Stonewall Rebellion alerted mainstream straight America that there was a large queer minority in its midst. Despite that long history, many lesbians in sports continue to face homophobia and other obstacles today.
 
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02/01/2009 

Claude Summers Reflects on Chris and Don
 
Claude Summers reflects on the romance and the creative partnership between Don Bachardy and Christopher Isherwood, the "first couple" of the gay liberation movement, in this review of the documentary film Chris and Don: A Love Story, directed by Guido Santi and Tina Mascara.
 
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02/01/2009 

Film Actors: Gay And Bisexual Male
 
Although gay male film actors such as Raymond Burr, Rock Hudson, and Charles Laughton have rarely been permitted the luxury of openness, many have challenged and helped reconfigure notions of masculinity and, to a lesser extent, of homosexuality.
 
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01/01/2009 

English Literature: Renaissance
 
Homosexuality is writ large in the literature of the English Renaissance but, with the exception of a few significant but atypical texts, homoeroticism tends to be expressed implicitly rather than explicitly, seen from the outside rather than from the inside, and is nearly always shadowed by a penumbra of religious and social disapproval.
 
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12/01/2008 

Pink and Bent: Art of Queer Women
 
Pink and Bent: Art of Queer Women is an exhibition curated by Pilar Gallego and Cora Lambert, who selected work by both established and emerging artists with an eye toward conveying the experience of being a queer woman through art, which can "describe visually what is too complicated" to convey through language alone.
 
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12/01/2008 

Pilar Gallego and Cora Lambert on Pink and Bent
 
Pink and Bent: Art of Queer Women was an exhibition of the work of dozens of queer women, which was first mounted at the Leslie/Lohman Art Foundation gallery in New York City. Many of the show's images are available online on glbtq.com. In this interview, the project's curators describe their vision for the show--and the reason they did not call it "The Great Lesbian Art Show" despite its enormous size.
 
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11/01/2008 

Cross-Dressers: Female
 
Women who cross-dress generally do so for reasons quite different from those that motivate male cross-dressers. These historically and culturally significant women have worn male attire to accomplish many different goals.
 
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10/01/2008 

Literary Los Angeles
 
Los Angeles is the center of American popular culture; it has also been important to the histories of twentieth-century gay and lesbian literature.
 
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