A sea of stories: the shaping power of narrative in gay and lesbian cultures : a festschrift for John P. De Cecco

Introduction: A Festschrift for John P. De Cecco / Sonya L. Jones

Apologia Pro Gay and Lesbian Studies: My "History and Memory" As Allegheny Student and Editor of the Journal of Homosexuality / John P. De Cecco

Ch. 1. Historical Evolution of Our Stories: The Persecution of Homosexuals During the Third Reich / J. Scott Van Der Meid

Weimar Republic

Legislation Under the National Socialists

Persecution

Life in the Concentration Camps

Life After 1945

Ch. 2. Selling Gay Literature Before Stonewall / David Bergman

Ch. 3. Workplace Narratives: Using Coming-Out Stories to Enhance Workplace Diversity / Alan L. Ellis

Development of Attitudes Regarding Sexuality

Attitude Change and the Role of Contact

Use of Narrative As a Form of "Indirect Contact"

Power of Narrative As a Catalyst for Change

Using Narrative in the Workplace

Bottom Line: Coming Out, Productivity, and Job Satisfaction

Tell or Not to Tell One's Story

Current Literature on Workplace Issues

Ch. 4. Queer Youth: Old Stories, New Stories / Glenda M. Russell, Janis S. Bohan and David Lilly

Context

Study, The Story

Queer Narratives: The Stories Youth Live

Ch. 5. "Melodramatic Maybe, It Seems to Me Now": Langston Hughes and the Underwritten Self / Laura Quinn

Ch. 6. In the Body's Ghetto / Walter Holland

Becoming Men: Gay Male Memoir and Autobiography from the 1940s Onward

Un-Becoming Men: The Postmodern Burlesque and Satire

Many Kinds of Open: Six Lesbian Voices from the American 1970s

Ch. 7. Embracing the Past by Retelling the Stories / Ruth Vanita

Growing Up Gay in India

"I'm an Excellent Animal": Cows, Motherhood, and Love Between Women

Ch. 8. Telling Lives: A Community Responds to AIDS / Jeanne Braham and Pamela Peterson

Ch. 9. Two Grooms: Revisited, Celebrated, and Remembered / Louie Crew, Reverend Canon Elizabeth Kaeton and Maxine Turner

Fort Valley, Georgia, 1976

After the Honeymoon

Two Grooms, Continued: The Renewal of Vows - February 2, 1999

Love That Need Not Speak Its Name: Sex and Sin in the South

Ch. 10. "I Would Prefer Not To" - Loving Karen / Diana Hume George

Ch. 11. Professional Queer Remembers: Bibliography, Narrative, and the Saving Power of Memory / Raymond-Jean Frontain

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

Ch. 12. Kiss in the Cane / Robert J. Balfour.