Introduction / Julie R. Enszer and Elena Gross -- Your first audience is your people / Judy Grahn -- America Glasnost and Reconstruction / Allen Ginsberg -- AIDS and the responsibility of the writer / Sarah Schulman -- Does your mama know about me? / Essex Hemphill -- The effects of ecological disaster / Susan Griffin -- More fuel to run on / Pat Califia -- AIDS writing / John Preston -- Lesband and gays of African descent take issue -- The color of my narrative / Mariana Romo-Carmona -- Survival is the least of my desires / Dorothy Allison -- Speaking a world into exisitence / Janice Gould -- I'll be somewhere listening for my name / Melvin Dixon -- What fiction means / Allan Gurganus -- The gift of open sky to carry you safely on your jurney as writers / Chrystos -- An exceptional child / John Preston -- Aversion/Perversion/Diversion: an excerpt -- Samuel R. Delany -- Less than a mile from here / Jewelle Gomez -- Two poems: "The bridge poem" and "A pacifist becomes militant and declares war" / Kate Rushin -- We have to fight for our political lives / Linda Villarosa -- On pretentiousness / Tony Kushner -- Heroes and saints from Downtown / Luis Alfaro -- Remembrances of a gay old time / Edmund White -- Imagination and the mockingbird / Minnie Bruce Pratt -- A house of difference: Audre Lorde's legacy to lesbian and gay writers / Cheryl Clarke -- Keeping our queer souls / Nancy K. Bereano -- Making a fresh start: the challenge of queer writers / Craig Lucas -- A menopausal gentleman: an excerpt / Peggy Shaw -- Voices from OutWrite.
Summary:
"OutWrite: The Speeches that Shaped LGBTQ Literary Culture gathers twenty-seven speeches from the eight national OutWrite conferences held between 1990 and 1999. OutWrite conferences played a crucial role in defining, expanding, and amplifying LGBTQ literary culture by bringing together LGBTQ writers of the 1990s in raucous events highlighted by keynote addresses, plenary sessions, and workshops coupled late nights of drinking, dancing, hook ups, and other forms of literary revelry. Speeches by Allen Ginsberg, Judy Grahn, Sarah Schulman, Essex Hemphill, Pat Califia, Dorothy Allison, Allan Gurganus, Chrystos, John Preston, Linda Villarosa, Edmund White, Tony Kushner, Samuel Delany, and many more are featured. The OutWrite conferences defined a new, queer literary canon and a movement of queer literary production. Now readers can revisit the speeches, arguments, and ideas from OutWrite as a touchstone for imagining what the future might hold for LGBTQ creative, literary, and artistic work"-- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.