Diversity

NEEDS AND CONCERNS REGARDING DIVERSITY

AT NAROPA UNIVERSITY

In the wake of recent layoffs at Naropa University, the impact has been shocking and undeniable. This manuscript will focus on the effects, in particular, of losing our Diversity Officer and how this will impact the school. Diversity has been a mainstay at Naropa, and every student interviewed in these last weeks has voiced how important diversity was in choosing this school, and how important it is in their continuation. Diversity means a lot of things, but foremost it means being together in our differences, and even celebrating those differences. Unfortunately, our culture still needs a lot of work to get to a point where this is the status quo.  Minority groups and marginalized students continue to need support services to feel that they can enroll and remain at Naropa. The needs and concerns of these students, particularly those of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex (LGBTQI) students will be addressed here, but these needs also apply to ALL marginalized peoples, including people of color, age, weight, disability, and class, among others.

In the context of financial crisis, budget cuts are necessary.  These decisions, however, must take into consideration the needs and concerns of the student body, the staff, and the faculty.  Naropa has a long tradition of supporting diversity. The majority of students interviewed recently expressed outrage at losing our Diversity Officer at Naropa.  This position offers numerous services that cannot easily be replaced by even the most active student.  These services are meant to be in place to support students who need them, in order that they be successful in their college career—they are meant to be there for students, not provided by them.  Most students have large demands on their time and energy just to complete the required coursework.  Continuing to operate as a university without a diversity officer, director, coordinator, or center is not an option—this position, in the eyes of the student body, is not something extra, and is not negotiable.  How will these needs be met?

How will the following needs be met?

This is an outline of the responsibilities and services provided through this Diversity Position.

• Point person—officer, director, or coordinator needed for safe space, i.e. a person for students to talk to regarding:
• Coming out
• Rejection from family, friends, often being disowned by parents. This remains a pertinent issue, and students need a queer-identified person to talk to. No matter how open an ally can be, the feeling of safety, and the benefit of talking to someone who has been through this experience is invaluable.  Without this support, and because of the lack of it in our culture in general, these are the other alternatives and current statistics:
• Approx. twice suicide rate among LGBTQI people
• Increased drug & alcohol abuse among LGBTQI people
• Higher rates of moderate to severe depression, self harm, etc.
• Discrimination & harassment issues
• The trauma of experiencing discrimination or harassment, or feeling victimized, greatly increases the need for a known safe person to be available for support.  The following are a few examples of what still occurs, sometimes subtly (advertising, stereotypes, tokenization, erasure) and sometimes overtly (as hate crimes), even in Boulder:
• Homophobia, biphobia, heterosexism, transphobia, sexism, racism, ageism, ableism, classism, et al.
• Violent hate crimes still happen, for example the brutal beating of a lesbian student in front of Naropa just a couple years ago.
• In a survey taken at CU Boulder last year, LGBTQI students reported experiencing discrimination or harassment in some form on a daily basis (other boxes to check were weekly, monthly, or yearly), and several students asked why there wasn’t a box to check for hourly.

• Education of faculty & staff
• That staff, faculty, and students support diversity and uphold this value is very important, but without the proper education, this cannot easily or fully happen. Issues of minority communities are more complex and multi-tiered than most allies immediately realize.  The LGBTQI Ally Safe Zone Training at CU Boulder is a four-hour seminar with a sixty page handbook, and even this only touches the surface of many issues. Unfolding terminology and concepts through education workshops and seminars is the role of a Diversity Officer. Following are a few examples of educational issues:
• LGBTQI 101
• What is the difference between Sex Identity, Gender Identity, Gender Expression, and Sexual Orientation?
• What terminology is associated with each of those?  For example, what is the difference between the terms male and man, female and woman? What does the term womyn signify? What is FTM and MTF, SRS, how is sex determined, how is gender determined? What is the transgender umbrella? What is intersex? Which terms are positive and which negative?
• How can an ally best support an LGBTQI person? A person of color? Disability, age, weight?
• A diversity officer functions as an organizer of guest speaker events
• Many LGBTQI advocates and educators, as well as advocates and educators of other diversity issues, such as race or ethnicity, regularly tour to colleges and universities across the country leading workshops and giving lectures. These events cannot continue at Naropa if there is no-one in charge of getting them here. This is an important part of the diversity element of an educational program which operates with full integrity, which is what the Naropa tradition is all about.
• Organizer of student events
• Students may want to run their own events, including ones based on diversity in education, activism, arts, literature, theatre, dance, et al., but they need a diversity officer or director to help figure out how to navigate these activities, and help oversee the events.
• Student groups are important, and often student run, but need to be channeled through a diversity center, officer, or director. The following are examples of different types of students groups usually found at most universities:
• Student support group for:
• Coming out, discrimination, harassment, personal issues, etc.
• Ally & social group – Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA)
• Movies, social gatherings, education, etc.
• Activist group
• Political and social issues, protests, volunteer work, education forums
• Special interest groups
• Queer People Of Color (QPOC) – safe space for discussing issues specific to students with these multiple identities
• Diversity in classrooms and curriculum should be advocated for by a diversity officer and diversity center:
• LGBTQI, ethnic, women’s, and other minority group literature, theory, philosophy, theatre, etc. should be taught regularly in the classroom.
• Safe space – a physical space should be provided for students who need it. This should be moderated by the diversity officer.
• El Centro access?
• Resources and references – a list should be compiled and maintained by the diversity center and director
• LGBTQI or other minority group identified therapists, counselors, etc. who can provide safe space and have education in these areas
• Local organizations information, what resources they provide, and how to access them. Just a couple examples:
• Boulder Pride – What do they do? How does one find them?
• AIDS support – Boulder County AIDS Project (BCAP)
• Many others

HOW WILL THESE ABOVE NEEDS BE MET?

If these needs are not met, the following areas could be affected:

• Admissions
• Several LGBTQI students were interviewed and most stated clearly that one of the deciding factors in attending Naropa was whether they would have support as a queer-identified student. One student reported that he asked about this, first, during his interview, before even asking about faculty in the program he was applying to. He was immediately taken down to the diversity center and introduced to the diversity officer, before returning to finish the interview. This was a large factor in his ultimate decision to attend Naropa. Many students of marginalized groups will be looking for this component of the school when deciding where to apply.
• Retention of current students
• Two LGBTQI students interviewed this last week reported looking at other schools and transfer options since the diversity position was cut. One of them has already begun the transfer process.
• Liability
• If self harm, suicide, or harm as a result of drugs or alcohol occurs as a result of a minority group student responding to trauma that was not addressed by a diversity officer or center, the school could be held liable for this.

PLEASE RESPOND CLEARLY AS TO HOW THE ABOVE NEEDS WILL BE MET

Thank you very much.

Warmly,

Val Lewis Killpack III

Graduate Student at Naropa University

MFA in Writing and Poetics 2012

Faculty Assistant & Faculty Liaison

Email:  val.killpack@gmail.com

Mobile:  +1 303 895 0052

Address:  2151 Arapahoe Ave, Boulder, CO  80302-6601

Independent Study Fall 2011

GAY FICTION AFTER STONEWALL Golden Age: The 1970s This Three-Credit Independent Study course is Part Two (Gay Fiction after Stonewall) of a socio-historical study of the gay-male canon of literary fiction in the twenty and twenty-first centuries. Part One (Gay Fiction before Stonewall) was completed in a three-credit Independent Study course in the Fall 2011 semester. Literature from this canon of gay-male fiction will be the focus of this student’s Critical Thesis component of the MFA Final Manuscript due at the end of the Fall 2012 semester.  This study will also be read in the context of the writing of a novella which will be used for the Creative Prose Manuscript component of the MFA Final Manuscript also due at the end of the Fall 2012 semester. The canon of queer literature has not been conclusively established and at this time suppressed literature is still being published, coded works are being reclaimed, and current authors are looking back and writing socio-historically about the queer experience. The scope of this study has been narrowed to focus on works of prose fiction (especially the novel); I have left out lesbian and transgender texts in an attempt to narrow the focus of this study.  This segment spans a time period of ten years: from 1970, just after the Stonewall Riots in June of 1969 (which symbolize the onset of the Gay Rights Movement in the US), and ending with the onset of the AIDS Crisis in 1980. Each book selected had large influence at the time of publication or has importance in our current understanding of this particular time period of gay history in the United States.  This particular time period represents moving out of a closeted time of homosexuality into a time of expression, identity, and representation—a cultural explosion of sorts—and these texts respond to that in different ways.

Learning Goals: Describe the overall purpose and scope of the course and, in general terms, what knowledge and skills the I.S. is meant to provide.  Use such action verbs as identify, describe, analyze, compare, define, etc.
This course will examine the lives of gay characters in fictional works set in the immediate post-Stonewall time period of history (1970-1979).  This historical setting brings with it certain responses.  Homosexuality exploded out of the closet; expression, identity, representation, and politics will all be analyzed in the light of an emerging gay culture.  This course will identify that experience, comparing the various stories with each other, and viewing them through the lens of critical theory in terms of class, identity, representation, sexuality, gender, and interpersonal relationships among characters as well as socio-political implications of texts themselves.  The marginalized Other—gay men in this case—will be defined in the context of the hegemonic social constraints and the breaking through and disavowal of the closet and anti-gay oppression.  This study will identify the powers and forces at work, the dynamics that bring the protagonists through their journeys, and thus elucidate upon possible antecedent factors and impact of behavioral decisions made by characters throughout the texts, especially in regards to identity and representation.
Research Plan: List research materials and sources.  E.g. books, videotapes, lectures, films, interviews, articles, etc.  Include page numbers and chapters.  Keep in mind that research plans cannot entirely depend on an event such as a workshop or lecture.  If the workshop or lecture is cancelled, the I.S. must still be completed.
Novels 1.      Daniel Curzon – Something You Do in the Dark (1971) 2.      Melvin Dixon – Vanishing Rooms (1991) 3.      Patricia Nell Warren – The Front Runner (1974) 4.      Andrew Holleran – Dancer from the Dance (1978) 5.      Larry Kramer – Faggots (1978) 6.      Armistead Maupin – More Tales of the City (1980) 7.      Terry Andrews – The Story of Harold (1974) 8.      John Rechy – Rushes (1979) 9.      Samuel R. Delany – The Tides of Lust (1973) [AKA Equinox, 1994] Documentary Film Nancy Adair, Andrew Brown, Rob Epstein, dirs. – Word Is Out (1977) Joseph F. Lovett, dir. – Gay Sex in the 70s (2005) Pierre Gang, dir. – More Tales of the City (1998) Theory Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick – Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire (1985) David M. Halperin – How to Do the History of Homosexuality (2002) Christopher Bram – Mapping the Territory (2009)

Description of the Assignments:  Form of final project, paper, or presentation topics; length, style, or other specifications of final work.  Include specifics such as length of papers, journal entries, or video; number of art pieces; length of music composition; etc.
The course will have three critical essays each comparing three novels. The first essay will compare the three novels Something You Do in the Dark, Vanishing Rooms, and The Front Runner.  It will focus on the following topic: How does gay culture respond to homophobia, discrimination, and anti-gay violence during the 1970s?  What role does hegemonic power and privilege play?  Where else is power found and how is this represented in culture and in literature? What is the role of a protest novel? ◦     This paper should be 8-12 pages in length. The second essay will compare the three novels Dancer from the Dance, Faggots, and More Tales of the City.  This essay will focus on the following topic: At this time of gay cultural explosion, how does social identity and representation form? How does this function in the gay ghetto and in larger society? ◦     This paper should be 8-12 pages in length. The third essay will compare the three novels The Story of Harold, Rushes, and Tides of Lust.  This essay will focus on the following topic: How does leather/BDSM culture operate in the 1970s gay scene?  What role does personal power play in relationships and how is that reflected elsewhere?  How are sexuality and desire represented in these texts? ◦     This paper should be 8-12 pages in length.

Grieving and Meditation

Grieving and Meditation

for Becky Lynn Killpack

Dislocated, disoriented. Presence, patience, time, waiting, holding space. Acceptance → holding → releasing. Like riding an elevator. Not knowing. Dizziness, shock. Unable to do anything, unable to express emotion. Allowing. Small talk, everything meaningless in comparison, conversation inane. Frantic, frenzied, panicky. Two dimensional. Echoes, bouncing sounds, tilting visuals. Voices, whispering, somewhere inside. Somewhere.

On the descent days before the forest fire of my mind, when my sister was still alive, I sank down and opened the darkness to inhale my destiny. They were days beyond. In earlier seasons, I wouldn't have broken down in such recompense. A blanket of the bleakest neutral indispensabilities, but beautiful, like fodder for later harvest.

Grieving at Practice Period—is a Zen Buddhist retreat the right place to mourn the loss of a loved one? Sitting still in meditation and fully feeling the pain, the physicality of the trauma of loss coupled with emotions and mental cognitions. Confronting suffering, I yearn for space, for the pressure to release. Sometimes I feel I might suffocate, if not for tears, if not for the cracks to fall apart in. To figure out how to resolve suffering, that is the question, isn't it? To accept impermanence?

Now that I have returned to the Zen Practice Period in Crestone, Colorado, I have no choice but to explore the combination, relationship, or experiential dialectic, if you will, between the grieving process and zazen meditation. As I sit still, a cacophony of pains pulse throughout my body, of various qualities, sometimes unbearable, and yet I still don't move. Each of these pains seems to be connected to feelings and emotions, thoughts, and often tears. Moving like waves, unexpected.

Mixed up with all of this, a depressive episode of bipolar disorder emerges, along with a touch of the flu. Phone consultations with my psychotherapist, yoga on the break, taking, still, my medication, my herbs and supplements, drinking lots of water, breathing, and yes, patience.

This is a dream, an illusion. None of this really happened. No.

This is not okay! This can't be! I will not accept this!

As though a web that was woven throughout by body was ripped free and now I'm bleeding all over.

What could I have done and why didn't I do it? I should have I could have why didn't I go there and.... Spend time with her, more time, why didn't I spend more time with her. More time, I need more time. Please don't be gone.

In the mornings I am dizzy all over again. I feel I might suffocate, might have a panic attack. I need more air. Yet I wheeze through it all, a little tingly, one breath at a time.

Help me turn this around: Thank you for the time we shared together. But I want to go dancing. Thank you for the time we shared together. But I want to tell you this story. Thank you for the time we shared together. But... Thank you for the time....

COMPLETE MFA READING LIST

COMPLETE MFA READING LIST:

SELECTED WORKS FROM THE CANON OF GAY MALE FICTION

by
Val Killpack

I compiled this list of books for purposes of upcoming Independent Study courses and Final Manuscript components I will be working on at Naropa University and the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics where I am completing the MFA in Writing and Poetics – Prose Concentration.

PART ONE will be a semester-long course in Fall 2010.  I will be writing critical essays based on a selection of those readings, looking at these questions:

·         What is the role of class status in gay relationships and how does that affect personal identity within the community?

·         How does the coming-out process in the protagonist influence the formation and concept of family within society?

PART TWO will be a semester-long course in Spring 2011 with similar essay topics.

PART THREE will be used for the Critical Thesis component of the MFA Final Manuscript, which is due at the end of the Fall 2011 semester.  I hope to publish this essay, and I intend to use it as a writing sample if I apply to a doctoral program.

PARTS ONE, TWO, and THREE will be read in the context of the writing of a novel or novella, which will be used as the Creative Prose Manuscript component of the MFA Final Manuscript due at the end of the Fall 2011 semester.  This manuscript will also serve as a creative writing sample if I apply to a doctoral program in creative writing.

The list has been separated into socio-historical periods as relates to LGBTIQ/Queer community. I have left out lesbian and transgender texts in an attempt to narrow the focus of this study. I have attempted to select the primary works that form the gay male canon, mainly looking at prose works of fiction, some memoir, and a little poetry and drama, with applicable theoretical works to read these through. I am now about half-way through first readings of the listed texts. The list is certainly not complete; any suggestions or comments are welcomed.  Email me at val.killpack@gmail.com

PART ONE: GAY FICTION BEFORE STONEWALL

OSCAR WILDE TO STONEWALL RIOTS

NOVELS

Oscar Wilde – The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891; ed. Norman Page, Broadview Press 1998)

·         Oscar Wilde Trials (UK) – 1895

Herman Melville – Billy Budd (written 1886-1891; pub. 1924)

[Oscar Wilde?] – Teleny, or, The Reverse of the Medal (1893)

André Gide – The Immoralist (1902; trans. Dorothy Bussy 1930; trans. Richard Howard 1970)

Thomas Mann – Death in Venice (1912)

E.M. Forster – Maurice (written 1913; pub. 1971)

Marcel Proust – Sodom and Gomorrah (1921, 1922; ed. Christopher Prendergast, trans. John Sturrock, Allen Lane 2002)

André Gide – The Counterfeiters (1925; trans. Dorothy Bussy 1927)

Jean Genet – Our Lady of the Flowers (written 1942, pub. 1943; trans. Bernard Frechtman 1963)

Jean Genet – Querelle (written 1947, pub. 1953; trans. Gregory Streatham 1966; trans. Anselm Hollo 1974)

·         Kinsey Report (US) – 1948

Truman Capote – Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948)

Yukio Mishima – Confessions of a Mask (1948; trans. Meredith Weatherby 1958)

Gore Vidal – The City and the Pillar (1948; revised 1965)

Jean Genet – The Thief’s Journal (1949; trans. Bernard Frechtman 1964)

William S. Burroughs – Queer (written 1951; pub. 1985)

Yukio Mishima – Forbidden Colors (1953; trans. Alfred H. Marks 1968)

Christopher Isherwood – The World in the Evening (1954)

James Baldwin – Giovanni’s Room (1956)

·         Wolfenden Report (UK) – 1957

William S. Burroughs – Naked Lunch (1959)

James Baldwin – Another Country (1962)

Christopher Isherwood – Down There on a Visit (1962)

John Rechy – City of Night (1963)

Christopher Isherwood – A Single Man (1964)

Hubert Selby, Jr. – Last Exit to Brooklyn (1964)

·         Sexual Offences Act (UK) - 1967

Christopher Isherwood – A Meeting by the River (1967)

James Purdy – Eustace Chisolm and the Works (1967)

Quentin Crisp – The Naked Civil Servant (1968)

Gore Vidal – Myra Breckinridge (1968)

·         Stonewall Riots (US) – 1969

Reinaldo Arenas – Farewell to the Sea (written 1969, 1971, 1974; pub. 1982; trans. Andrew Hurley 1986)

Manuel Puig – Kiss of the Spider Woman (1976; trans. Thomas Colchie 1979)

Christopher Bram – Hold Tight (1988)

Samuel R. Delany – The Motion of Light in Water (1988)

Edmund White – The Beautiful Room Is Empty (1988)

Reinaldo Arenas – Before Night Falls (1992; trans. Dolores M. Koch 1993)

Christopher Bram – The Notorious Dr. August: His Real Life and Crimes (2000)

FILM VERSIONS

Albert Lewin, dir. – The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

Peter Ustinov, dir. – Billy Budd (1962)

Michael Sarne, dir. – Myra Breckinridge (1970)

Luchino Visconti, dir. – Death in Venice (1971)

Jack Gold, dir. – The Naked Civil Servant (1975)

Rainer Werner Fassbinder, dir. – Querelle (1982)

Hector Babenco, dir. – Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985)

James Ivory, dir. – Maurice (1987)

Uli Edel, dir. – Last Exit to Brooklyn (1989)

David Cronenberg, dir. – Naked Lunch (1991)

David Rocksavage, dir. – Other Voices, Other Rooms (1995)

Julian Schnabel, dir. – Before Night Falls (2000)

Tom Ford, dir. – A Single Man (2009)

Steve Buscemi, dir. – Queer (2011)

DOCUMENTARY FILM

Greta Schiller, dir. – Before Stonewall (1984)

THEORY

Michel Foucault – The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1: An Introduction (1976; trans. Robert Hurley 1978)

Michel Foucault – The History of Sexuality, Vol. 2: The Use of Pleasure (1984; trans. Robert Hurley 1985)

Michel Foucault – The History of Sexuality, Vol. 3: The Care of the Self (1984; trans. Robert Hurley 1986)

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick – Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire (1985; revised 1993)

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick – Epistemology of the Closet (1990)

Judith Butler – Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (1990)

Judith Butler – Bodies that Matter: On the Discursive Limits of “Sex” (1993)

PART TWO: GAY FICTION AFTER STONEWALL

GOLDEN AGE

NOVELS

Daniel Curzon – Something You Do in the Dark (1971)

Samuel R. Delany – The Tides of Lust (1973)

Terry Andrews – The Story of Harold (1974)

Patricia Nell Warren – The Front Runner (1974)

Christopher Isherwood – Christopher and His Kind (1976)

Andrew Holleran – Dancer from the Dance (1978)

Larry Kramer – Faggots (1978)

Armistead Maupin – Tales of the City (1978)

James Purdy – Narrow Rooms (1978)

Edmund White – Nocturnes for the King of Naples (1978)

Samuel R. Delany – Heavenly Breakfast (1979)

John Rechy – Rushes (1979)

Armistead Maupin – More Tales of the City (1980)

Armistead Maupin – Further Tales of the City (1982)

Melvin Dixon – Vanishing Rooms (1991)

Edmund White – City Boy (2009)

FILM VERSIONS

Alastair Reid, dir. – Tales of the City (1993)

Pierre Gang, dir. – More Tales of the City (1998)

Pierre Gang, dir. – Further Tales of the City (2001)

DOCUMENTARY FILM

Nancy Adair, Andrew Brown, Rob Epstein, dirs. – Word Is Out (1977)

Joseph F. Lovett, dir. – Gay Sex in the 70s (2005)

THEORY

Christopher Bram – Mapping the Territory (2009)

AIDS CRISIS

NOVELS

James Purdy – Mourners Below (1981)

Robert Chesley – Night Sweat [play] (1984, in Hard Plays, Stiff Parts 1990)

Armistead Maupin – Babycakes (1984)

Paul Reed – Facing It (1984)

Samuel R. Delany – Flight from Nevèrÿon (1985)

William M. Hoffman – As Is [play] (1985)

Larry Kramer – The Normal Heart [play] (1985)

Barbara Peabody – The Screaming Room [biography] (1986)

Emmanuel Dreuilhe – Mortal Embrace [memoir] (1987, trans. Linda Coverdale 1988)

Armistead Maupin – Significant Others (1987)

Randy Shilts – And the Band Played On [nonfiction] (1987)

*Christopher Davis – Valley of the Shadow (1988)

*Robert Ferro – Second Son (1988)

Andrew Holleran – Ground Zero [essays] (1988)

Adam Mars-Jones & Edmund White – The Darker Proof [stories] (1988)

*Paul Monette – Borrowed Time [memoir] (1988)

Paul Monette – Love Alone [poems] (1988)

George Whitmore – Someone Was Here [biography] (1988)

David B. Feinberg – Eighty-Sixed (1989)

Michael Klein, ed. – Poets for Life [poems] (1989)

Larry Kramer – Reports from the Holocaust [nonfiction] (1989)

Armistead Maupin – Sure of You (1989)

*Pier Vittorio Tondelli – Separate Rooms (1989, trans. Simon Pleasance 1992)

John Weir – The Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket (1989)

Allen Barnett – The Body and Its Dangers [stories] (1990)

*Michael Cunningham – A Home at the End of the World (1990)

William Finn & James Lapine – Falsettoland [musical play] (1990)

*Hervé Guibert – To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life (1990, trans. Linda Cloverdale 1991)

Terrence McNally – André’s Mother [teleplay] (1990)

David B. Feinberg – Spontaneous Combustion (1991)

Paul Gervais – Extraordinary People (1991)

*Rachel Hadas, ed. – Unending Dialogue [poems] (1991)

Essex Hemphill, ed. – Brother to Brother [essays, poems, stories] (1991)

Oscar Moore – A Matter of Life and Sex (1991)

David Wojnarowics – Close to the Knives [essays] (1991)

William Finn & James Lapine – Falsettos [musical play] (1992)

Thomas Gunn – The Man with Night Sweats (1992)

Larry Kramer – The Destiny of Me [play] (1992)

Adam Mars-Jones – Monopolies of Loss [stories] (1992)

*Jeff Ryman – Was (1992)

James Robert Baker – Tim and Pete (1993)

Christopher Coe – Such Times (1993)

*Jameson Currier – Dancing on the Moon [stories] (1993)

B. Michael Hunter, ed. – Sojourner [essays, poems, stories] (1993)

*Derek Jarman – Blue [film as literature] (1993), Derek Jarman – Blue: Text of a Film [script] (1994)

Fenton Johnson – Scissors, Paper, Rock (1993)

*Tony Kushner – Angels in America [play] (1993)

*Dale Peck – Martin and John (1993)

Paul Rudnick – Jeffrey [play] (1993)

*David Schneider – Street Zen: The Life and Work of Issan Dorsey [biography] (1993)

Samuel R. Delany – The Mad Man (1994)

Paul Monette – Last Watch of the Night [essays] (1994)

*Clifford Chase – The Hurry-Up Song [memoir] (1995)

*Mark Doty – Heaven’s Coast [memoir] (1996)

Fenton Johnson – Geography of the Heart [memoir] (1996)

Rafael Campo – The Poetry of Healing [memoir] (1997)

Amy Hoffman – Hospital Time [memoir] (1997)

*Edmund White – The Farewell Symphony (1997)

Jim Grimsley – Comfort and Joy (1999)

Kate Scannell – Death of the Good Doctor [memoir] (1999)

*Colm Tóibín – The Blackwater Lightship (1999)

Edmund White – The Married Man (2000)

FILM VERSIONS

Mike Nichols, dir. – Angels in America (2003)

Michael Mayer, dir. – A Home at the End of the World (2004)

DOCUMENTARY FILM

Jeffrey Dupre, dir. – Out of the Past (1998)

John Scagliotti, dir. – After Stonewall (1999)

THEORY

Susan Sontag – Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors (1989)

Edmund White – Loss Within Loss: Artists in the Age of AIDS (2001)

PART THREE: GAY FICTION NEAR THE MILLENNIUM

MILLENNIUM APPROACHES

NOVELS

David Rees – In the Tent (1979)

Charles Nelson – The Boy Who Picked the Bullets Up (1981)

Robert Glück – Jack the Modernist (1985)

David Leavitt – The Lost Language of Cranes (1986)

David Plante – The Catholic (1986)

Patrick Gale – Kansas in August (1988)

Alan Hollinghurst – The Swimming-Pool Library (1988)

Melvin Dixon – Trouble the Waters (1989)

Randall Kenan – A Visitation of Spirits (1989)

Neil Bartlett – Ready to Catch Him Should He Fall (1990)

Tom Spanbauer – The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon (1991)

Jaime Manrique – Latin Moon in Manhattan (1992)

Bernard Cooper – A Year of Rhymes (1993)

Stephen Macauley – The Easy Way Out (1993)

Louis Begley – As Max Saw It (1994)

Alan Hollinghurst – The Folding Star (1994)

Adam Mars-Jones – The Waters of Thirst (1994)

Jim Grimsley – Dream Boy (1995)

Scott Heim – Mysterious Skin (1995)

Dennis Cooper – Guide (1997)

Alan Hollinghurst – The Spell (1998)

Paul Lisicky – Lawnboy (1998)

Michael Lowenthal – The Same Embrace (1998)

Jaime Manrique – Eminent Maricones: Arenas, Lorca, Puig, and Me [memoir] (1999)

FILM VERSIONS

Nigel Finch, dir. – The Lost Language of Cranes (1992)

Gregg Araki, dir. – Mysterious Skin (2004)

DOCUMENTARY FILM

THEORY

Leo Bersani – Homos (1995)

David M. Halperin – Saint Foucault: Towards a Gay Hagiography (1995)

Jonathan Ned Katz – The Invention of Heterosexuality (1995)

Samuel R. Delany – Times Square Red, Times Square Blue (1999)

Michael Warner – The Trouble with Normal (1999)

MATTHEW SHEPARD

NOVELS

Scott Gibson, ed. – Blood & Tears [poems] (1999)

Beth Loffreda – Losing Matthew Shepard [memoir] (2000)

Moisés Kaufman – The Laramie Project [play] (2001)

Romaine Patterson & Patrick Hinds – The Whole World Was Watching [memoir] (2005)

Judy Shepard – The Meaning of Matthew [memoir] (2009)

TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

NOVELS

K.M. Soehnlein – The World of Normal Boys (2000)

Jamie O’Neill – At Swim, Two Boys (2001)

Kirk Read – How I Learned to Snap (2001)

Robert Glück – Denny Smith [stories] (2004)

Alan Hollinghurst – The Line of Beauty (2006)

Christopher Bram – Exiles in America (2006)

Patrick Ryan – Send Me (2006)

Edmund White – My Lives [memoir] (2006)

Abdellah Taïa – Salvation Army (2006; trans. Frank Stock 2009)

André Aciman – Call Me by Your Name (2007)

Samuel R. Delany – Dark Reflections (2007)

Brian Malloy – Brendan Wolf (2007)

Shawn Stewart Ruff – Finlater (2008)

Daniel Allen Cox – Shuck (2009)

G. Winston James – Shaming the Devil [stories] (2009)

Vestal McIntyre – Lake Overturn (2009)

David Plante – The Pure Lover [memoir] (2009)

Rakesh Satyal – Blue Boy (2009)

John Stahle – I Was Like [stories, essays, poems] (2009)

Sebastian Stuart – The Hour Between (2009)

Lee Houck – Yield (2010)

FILM VERSIONS

Saul Dibb, dir. – The Line of Beauty (2006)

DOCUMENTARY FILM

Paule Zadjermann, dir. – Judith Butler: Philosophical Encounters of the Third Kind (2006)

THEORY

Anne Fausto-Sterling – Sexing the Body (2000)

David M. Halperin – How to Do the History of Homosexuality (2002)

Lee Edelman – No Future (2004)

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, ed. – That’s Revolting! (2004, revised 2008)

David M. Halperin – Gay Shame (2009)

FILM-MAKER MEMOIR

John Waters – Shock Value (1981)

John Waters – Crackpot (1986)

John Waters – Role Models (2010)

Derek Jarman – Dancing Ledge (1984)

Derek Jarman – The Last of England [AKA Kicking the Pricks] (1987)

Derek Jarman – Modern Nature (1991)

Derek Jarman – At Your Own Risk (1992)

Derek Jarman – Chroma (1994)

Derek Jarman – Smiling in Slow Motion (2000)

Bruce LaBruce – The Reluctant Pornographer (1997)

Bruce LaBruce – Ride, Queer, Ride! (1997)

REFERENCES FOR THE MAKING OF THIS LIST

BOOKS

Stephen D. Adams – The Homosexual as Hero in Contemporary Fiction (1980)

Stuart Kellogg – Literary Visions of Homosexuality (1983) [AKA Essays on Gay Literature (1985)]

David Bergman – Gaiety Transformed: Gay Self-Representation in American Literature (1991)

Mark Lilly – Gay Men's Literature in the Twentieth Century (1993)

Edmund White – The Burning Library: Essays (1995)

Robert Drake – The Gay Canon: Great Books Every Gay Man Should Read (1998)

Reed Woodhouse – Unlimited Embrace: A Canon of Gay Fiction, 1945-1995 (1998)

Colm Tóibín – Love in a Dark Time: And Other Explorations of Gay Lives and Literature (2002)

Anthony Slide – Lost Gay Novels: A Reference Guide to Fifty Works of Fiction from the First Half of the Twentieth Century (2003)

David Bergman – The Violet Hour: The Violet Quill and the Making of Gay Culture (2004)

Edmund White – Arts and Letters (2004)

Richard Canning, ed. – 50 Gay and Lesbian Books Everybody Must Read (2009)

Tom Cardamone, ed. – The Lost Library: Gay Fiction Rediscovered (2010)

WEBSITES

GLBT Literature:

http://jclarkmedia.com/gaybooks/index.html

glbtq: an encyclopedia of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, & queer culture:

http://www.glbtq.com/

The Publishing Triangle’s 100 Best Lesbian and Gay Novels:

http://www.publishingtriangle.org/100best.asp

The Publishing Triangle's 100 Best Lesbian and Gay Nonfiction Books;

http://publishingtriangle.org/100nonficbest.asp

The Publishing Triangle Awards:

http://publishingtriangle.org/awards.asp

http://publishingtriangle.org/2010award-winners.asp

The Lambda Literary Awards:

http://www.lambdaliterary.org/category/winners-finalists/

http://www.lambdaliterary.org/awards/awards-finalists/

The Stonewall Book Awards:

http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/rts/glbtrt/stonewall/honored/index.cfm

http://www.ala.org/ala/newspresscenter/news/pressreleases2010/january2010/stonewall_pio.cfm