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Quotations
Blanton, David. Queer notions : a fabulous collection of gay and lesbian wit and wisdom
The Book of Gay and Lesbian Quotations. Compiled by Patricia Juliana Smith. New York: Three Rivers Press, c1999.
SML Stacks PN6084 G35 B66X 1999.
Gould, Allan. What did they say about gays?
SML, Stacks PN6084 G35 W48X 1995
Judell, Brandon. The Gay Quote Book. New York: Dutton, 1997.
SML Stacks PN6084 G35 J83X 1997.
Lesbian Quotations. Compiled by Rosemary Silva. Boston: Alyson Publications, 1993
SML Reference Room PN6084 L45 L47X 1993.
This work is essentially a collection of quotations about lesbians and lesbianism organized into seven broad topics: lesbian identities and communities; emotional aspects of lesbian bonds; nature of lesbian sexuality; anti-lesbian sentiment, discrimination and homophobia as expressed by the church, the military, patriarchal society; heterosexual women, the psychiatric establishment, and pornography; lesbian myths and stereotypes; internalized homophobia, its sources, and the struggle for recognition, equality, and liberation; and family roles, relationships, lifestyles, and life stages/changes. A single index of authors and specific subjects concludes the work.
Quentin Crisp's Book of Quotations: 1,000 Observations on Life and Love, by, for, and about Gay Men and Women. New York: Macmillan, 1989.
SML Reference Room PN6084 G35 Q46 1989.
Quotations are arranged into fifteen sections: art and literature, beauty, coming out, education, employment and money, gayness, gender, health, homophobia, love and marriage, politics and the law, psychology, religion, separation and loneliness, and sexuality; and are identified by source and dated by year when known. The quotations, most of which are contemporary, are not well cited. The work concludes with a subject index composed of persons, works, and themes.
Rutledge, Leigh W. Unnatural Quotations: A Compendium of Quotations by, for, or about Gay People. Boston: Alyson Publications, 1988.
SML Stacks PN6084 M4 R87 1988
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