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OutWrite : the speeches that shaped LGBTQ literary culture / edited by Julie R. Enszer and Elena Gross.

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Rutgers University Press, 2022.

Lambda Literary Award.

Speeches, addresses, etc., American.

9781978828032 (pbk.)

Alternate title:

Out write : the speeches that shaped LGBTQ literary culture

328 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introductioin / 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.

"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"--From publisher.

"Running from 1990 to 1999, the annual OutWrite conference played a pivotal role in shaping LGBTQ literary culture in the United States and its emerging canon. OutWrite provided a space where literary lions who had made their reputations before the gay liberation movement-like Edward Albee, John Rechy, and Samuel R. Delany-could mingle, network, and flirt with a new generation of emerging queer writers like Tony Kushner, Alison Bechdel, and Sarah Schulman. This collection gives readers a taste of this fabulous moment in LGBTQ literary history with twenty-seven of the most memorable speeches from the OutWrite conference, including both keynote addresses and panel presentations. These talks are drawn from a diverse array of contributors, including Allen Ginsberg, Judy Grahn, Essex Hemphill, Patrick Califia, Dorothy Allison, Allan Gurganus, Chrystos, John Preston, Linda Villarosa, Edmund White, and many more. OutWrite offers readers a front-row seat to the passionate debates, nascent identity politics, and provocative ideas that helped animate queer intellectual and literary culture in the 1990s. Covering everything from racial representation to sexual politics, the still-relevant topics in these talks are sure to strike a chord with today's readers"--From publisher.

Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ+ Anthology, 2023.

Enszer, Julie R., 1970-

Out Write (Conference)

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