Word: lesbian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Contact provides anonymous counseling to lesbian, bisexual, gay, transgender and straight students on issues of sexual orientation and sexuality...
After months of political wrangling and internal strife that led to the impeachment of their vice chair, the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters Alliance (BGLTSA) has begun to choose a new executive board...
Radclyffe Hall is remembered these days largely as an early lesbian icon. Her name is inextricably linked to her groundbreaking 1928 novel The Well of Loneliness, which brought the theme of lesbian sexuality--of female 'inversion,' as it was called at that early date--out into the open, without either the euphemism or the condemnation that had always accompanied it before...
...Ulysses, and it brought out the leading literary lights of the era on both sides of the Atlantic rallying to its defense. The Well, which was found 'obscene' and remained banned in England until 1949, became a cult novel and remains so to this day. Hall, an openly 'butch' lesbian in an age of heated debate over the status of both inverts and women, is remembered best for her "masculine" public image and for her shocking novel...
...style makes it a slow read and a frequently heavy one; there's no inspired prose to be found here. The text's punctiliousness about names and dates is a mixed blessing, of course: for the reader with a consuming interest in Hall, or a general fascination with early lesbian culture and literature, the book will be a treasure trove of anecdotes, literary analysis and historical details. But it's hardly a light romp through history, and for the casual reader, this is probably not the best way to be drawn into Hall's life and writing...