A Sea of Stories: The Shaping Power of Narrative in Gay and Lesbian Cultures: A Festschrift for John P. DeCecco Book

Contents

• About the Editor
• Contributors
• Introduction: A Festschrift for John P. De Cecco
• Apologia Pro Gay and Lesbian Studies: My “History and Memory” As Allegheny Student and Editor of the Journal of Homosexuality (ital)
• SECTION I: STRICTLY STATISTIC? THE SOCIAL SCIENCE NARRATIVES
• Chapter 1. The Historical Evolution of Our Stories: The Persecution of Homosexuals During the Third Reich
• The Weimar Republic
• Legislation Under the National Socialists
• Persecution
• Life in the Concentration Camps
• Life After 1945
• Chapter 2. Selling Gay Literature Before Stonewall
• Chapter 3. Workplace Narratives: Using Coming-Out Stories to Enhance Workplace Diversity
• The Development of Attitudes Regarding Sexuality
• Attitude Change and the Role of Contact
• The Use of Narrative As a Form of “Indirect Contact”
• The Power of Narrative As a Catalyst for Change
• Using Narrative in the Workplace
• The Bottom Line: Coming Out, Productivity, and Job Satisfaction
• To Tell or Not to Tell One's Story
• The Current Literature on Workplace Issues
• Chapter 4. Queer Youth: Old Stories, New Stories
• The Context
• The Study, The Story
• Queer narratives: The Stories Youth Live
• Conclusion
• SECTION II: THE BIG TEASE—SEXUALITY AND TEXTUALITY
• Chapter 5. “Melodramatic Maybe, It Seems to Me Now”: Langston Hughes and the Underwritten Self
• Chapter 6. In the Body's Ghetto
• Becoming Men: Gay Male Memoir and Autobiography from the 1940s Onward
• Un-Becoming Men: The Postmodern Burlesque and Satire
• The Many Kinds of Open: Six Lesbian Voices from the American 1970s
• Chapter 7. Embracing the Past by Retelling the Stories
• Growing Up Gay in India
• “I'm an Excellent Animal”: Cows, Motherhood, and Love Between Women
• SECTION III: CREATIVE NONFICTION—LOVE STORIES, WAR STORIES, ORAL STORIES, AND BIBLIOGRAPHIES
• Chapter 8. Telling Lives: A Community Responds to AIDS
• Chapter 9. Two Grooms: Revisited, Celebrated, and Remembered
• Fort Valley, Georgia, 1976
• After the Honeymoon
• Two Grooms, Continued: The Renewal of Vows—February 2, 1999
• The Love That Need Not Speak Its Name: Sex and Sin in the South
• Chapter 10. “I Would Prefer Not To”—Loving Karen
• Chapter 11. A Professional Queer Remembers: Bibliography, Narrative, and the Saving Power of Memory
• Prelude One (Fall 1978)
• Prelude Two (Winter 1975)
• Prelude Three (Summer 1996)
• Memory As Survival
• Narrative As Redemption
• Bibliography As Narrative
• Conclusion: Branches from a Green Tree
• SECTION IV: POST-STONEWALL AND POSTMODERN—THE “REAL” STORYTELLERS
• Chapter 12. A Kiss in the Cane
• Index