LANGUAGE AND SEXUAL ORIENTATION BIBLIOGRAPHY (February 1995) Gail Stygall English, Box 354330 University of Washington Seattle WA 98195-4330 (206) 685-2384 The items finally included on this list were selected with the idea of a linguistics course in mind, rather than one in critical theory or communications. At the time of posting, I still haven't yet received citations on the Berkeley Women and Language conferences, but Amy Sheldon reports papers on the topic of language and sexual orientation, so you might want to be looking for those. Please send any additional or corrections you might have! Special thanks to all of the following people who contributed suggestions to this list: Patricia Davis-Muffett Anne Eskridge Greta Gaard Diane Price Herndl Anna Livia Patricia Matteson Bonnie McElhinny Kate Remlinger Catherine Roland Ines Shaw Amy Sheldon and especially to Gregory Ward who provided his own on-line resources drawn from the ALA's Gay and Lesbian Task Force activities. Ashley, Leonard R. N. "'Lovely, Blooming, Fresh, and Gay': The Onomastics of Camp." _Maledicta_ 4.2 (1980): 223-248. -----. "Dyke Diction: The Language of Lesbians." _Maledicta_ 6 (1982): 123-162. -----. "Kinks and Queens: Linguistic and Cultural Aspects of the Terminology for Gays." _Maledicta_ 3 (1979): 215-256. Ayers, Nachamkin Beverly. "Diffusing Linguistic Dichotomies." _Womens' Studies Quarterly_ 20 (1992): 111-116. Bardis, Panos A. "A Glossary of Homosexuality." _Maledicta_ 4.1 (1980): 59-64. Butler, Judith. "The Lesbian Phallus and the Morphological Imaginary." _differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies_ 4.1 (1992): 133-172. Champagne, John. "Seven Speculations on Queers and Class." _Journal of Homosexuality_ 26.1 (1993): 159-175. Chesebro, James, ed. _Gayspeak: Gay Male and Lesbian Communication_. New York: Pilgrim Press, 1981. Davidson, Alan G. "Looking for Love in the Age of AIDS: The Language of Gay Personals, 1978-1988." _Journal of Sex Research_ 28.1 (1991): 125-137. Doyle, Chalres Clay. "Homosexual Slang Again." _American Speech_ 52.1 (1982): 74-76. Dynes, Wayne R. _Homosexuality: A Research Guide_. New York: Garland, 1987. [Language studies listed in Chap. 8, pp. 355-371] Farrel, Ronald A. "The Argot of the Homosexual Subculture." _Anthropological Linguistics_ 14 (1972): 97-109. Gardner, Carol Brooks. "Stigma and the Public Self." _Journal of Contemporary Ethnography_ 20.3 (1991): 251-263. Gonzales, Marti Hope and Sarah A. Meyers. "'Your Mother Would Like Me': Self Presentation in the Personals Ads of Heterosexual and Homosexual Men and Women." _Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin_ 19.2 (1993): 131-143. Grahn, Judy. _Another Mother Tongue_. Boston: Beacon Press, 1984. Hall, Kira and Mary Bucholtz, eds. _Gender Articulated_. New York: Routledge (forthcoming) Leap, William. _Beyond the Lavendar Lexicon_. Minneapolis, MN: U Minnesota Press, (forthcoming) Livia, Anna and Kira Hall. _Queerly Phrased_. (forthcoming) Lumby, Malcolm E. "Code Switching and Sexual Orientation: A Test of Bernstein's Sociolinguistic Theory." _Journal of Homosexuality_ 1.4 (1976): 383-399. Mays, Vickie M., Susan D. Cochran, George Bellinger, Jr., Robert G. Smith, Nancy Henley, Marlon Daniels, Thomas Tibbits, Gregory D. Victorianne, Olu Kwasi Osei, and Darryl K. Birt. "The Language of Black Gay Men's Sexual Behavior: Implications for AIDS Risk Reduction." _Journal of Sex Research_ 29.3 (1992): 425-435. Painter, Dorothy S. "Lesbian Humor as a Normalization Device." _Communication, Language, and Sex_. Eds. Cynthia L. Berryman and Virginia A. Eman, eds. Rowley, MA: Newbury, 1980. Ringer, R. Jeffrey, ed. _Queer Words, Queer Images_. New York: New York UP, 1994. Rodgers, Bruce. _The Queens' Vernacular: A Gay Lexicon_. San Francisco: Straight Arrow Press, 1972. Rudner, William A. and Rochelle Butowsky. "Signs Used in the Deaf Gay Community." _Sign Language Studies_ 30 (1981): 36-48. Shapiro, Michael. "Gays and Lesbians." _American Speech_ 65.2 (1990): 191-193. Spears, Richard A. "On the Etymology of 'Dike'." _American Speech_ 60 (1985): 318-327. [Stanley] Penelope, Julia. "Homosexual Slang." _American Speech_ 45 (1970): 45-59. -----. "Sexist Slang and the Gay Community." _Occasional Papers in Women's Studies_. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1980. -----. "When We Say 'Out of the Closets!'" _College English_ (1974): 385-391. [Stanley] Penelope, Julia and Susan W. Robbins. "Lesbian Humor." _Women: A Journal of Liberation_ 5.1 (1977): 26-29. Taub, Diane and Leger, Robert G. "Argot and the Creation of Social Types in a Young Gay Community." _Human Relations_ 37 (1984): 181-189. Treichler, Paula. "AIDS, Gender, and Biomedical Discourse: Current Contests for Meaning. In _AIDS: The Burden of History_. Eds. E. Fee and D. M. Fox. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1988. 190-266. -----. "AIDS, HIV, and the Cultural Construction of Meaning." In _The Time of AIDS: Social Analysis, Theory, and Method_. Ed. Gilbert Herdt and Shirley Lindenbaum. Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1992. -----. "AIDS, Homophobia, and Biomedical Discourse: An Epidemic of Signification." In _AIDS: Culture Analysis, Cultural Activism_. Ed. Douglas Crimp. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1988. 31-37. Tsang, Daniel C. "Notes on Queer 'n Asian Virtual Sex." _Amerasian Bulletin_ 20.1 (1994): 117-129. Wells, Joel W. "Sexual Language Usage in Different Interpersonal Contexts: A Comparison of Gender and Sexual Orientation." _Archives of Sexual Behavior_ 18.2 (1989): 127-144. -----. "The Sexual Vocabularies of Heterosexual and Homosexual Males and Females for Communicating Erotically with a Sexual Partner." _Archives of Sexual Behavior_ 19.2 (1990): 139-147. Zeve, Barry. "The Queen's English: Metaphor in Gay Speech." _English Today_ 9.3 (1993): 3-9.