Winner of the 1998 Lambda Literary Award for Photography and Visual ArtsIn 1985 photographer Robert Giard set out to create an archive of portraits of gay and lesbian writers from across the United States. The result is the most extensive photographic record of the gay and lesbian literary community ever undertaken. This book contains 182 of the more than 500 portraits Giard has made. The collection underscores the diversity of the gay population and encompasses a broad range of literary genres: fiction, poetry, drama, personal narrative, history, criticism, and political/activist statements. Taken as a whole, the portraits and excerpts encompass the many-faceted history of the gay/lesbian experience in the United States over the past seventy-five years.The book also features a foreword by Julia VanHaaften, Curator of Photographs at the New York Public Library; an introduction by Giard, "Self-Portrait of a Gay Reader"; an essay by Christopher Bram on gay writing; and an essay by Joan Nestle on lesbian writing.
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"Stirring and gorgeous." Out Magazine
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Robert Giard lives in Amagansett, New York.
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- Chicano/Latino Homoerotic Identities (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities) by David W. Foster in Back Matter
- Fully Exposed: The Male Nude in Photography by Emmanuel Cooper in Back Matter
- The Homoerotic Photograph : Male Images from Durieu / Delacroix to Mapplethorpe by Allen Ellenzweig in Back Matter
- Hear Us Out: Conversations with Gay Novelists (Between Men~Between Women: Lesbian and Gay Studies) by Richard Canning on page 60
- Lesbian and Gay Voices: An Annotated Bibliography and Guide to Literature for Children and Young Adults by Frances A. Day on page 122
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