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Alyson Women's Book Catalog A L Y S O N WOMEN'S BOOK CATALOG January-March 1994 MEMBERS OF THE TRIBE Caricatures of important lesbians and gay men LESBIAN QUOTATIONS A collection of lesbian wit and wisdom THE NEW ALYSON ALMANAC More information than ever before WORD GAYMES Nonstop entertainment ONE MILLION STRONG Celebrating the March on Washington in photographs TESTIMONIES Inspirational lesbian coming-out stories NEW FROM OTHER PUBLISHERS Hothead Paisan • Daughters of Darkness • Body of Love • and more One of the family MEMBERS OF THE TRIBE, by Michael Willhoite, cloth, $25.00 Here are some names you should know. Michael Willhoite stages his own pride parade with caricatures of over one hundred more of our lesser-known sisters and brothers. Each illustration is accompanied by a brief, entertaining background sketch of their personal and professional careers. Here are a few of the personalities you will meet. ""V I owerful if inelegant prose: that was the judgment of early reviewers of the work J of Djuna Barnes. That changed quickly. T.S. Eliot, no less, wrote in the introduc- I tion to her dark novel Nightwood of her "beauty of phrasing, the brilliance of wit I and characterization, and a quality of horror and doom ... related to that of Eliza- bethan tragedy." Clearly, Barnes was not destined for the best-seller lists. By the time of her death, she was all but forgotten, but since then, her work has been reissued in a steady trickle. Particularly noteworthy is 77K Ladies'Almanack, a playful satire of Paris's expatriate lesbian community. From time to time, Barnes illustrated her own work, and in this yew d'esprit it sparkles. 2 O ALYSON BOOK CATALOG et the bullets that rip through my brain smash through every closet door in the nation." Harvey Milk knew he would become a gay martyr. The San Francisco City Hall killings of Milk and Mayor George Moscone on November 27,1978, resonated throughout the nation like one of the city's famous quakes. When City Supervisor Dan White was convicted of manslaughter, not murder, rioting by furious lesbians and gay men broke out. Like Stonewall, like the 1992 Republican National Convention, such outrages fuel the movement. So Harvey Milk was right. For his full story, read Randy Shilts's excellent The Mayor of Castro Street. Scott Fitzgerald wrote: "There are no second acts in American lives." Wrong. Many blues aficionados think of Alberta Hunter as a dignified, silken old lady who suddenly broke onto the music scene in the 1980s. No, she was a sensation in the earlier decades, too, light, bright, one of the true queens of swing. Her upbeat rendition of "Miss Otis Regrets" is still the best one on records; she plays Cole Porter's satire right on the surface. But in the fifties she quit the music business and became a nurse. Later, when she was forcibly retired, back she came. And a star was reborn. ALYSON BOOK CATALOG O 3 In our own words Lesbian LESBIAN QUOTATIONS, by Rosemary E. Silva, $10.00 Quotations Reflections on life and he Lesbian is love, politics and culture, from Sappho to one of the least modern times known members of our culture. Less is known oompUed by , about her — and less Kosemary Silva I accurately — than about Where are all the quotable lesbians? The Quotable Woman 1800-1981 (1982), Author Rosemary Silva has collected the the Newfoundland dog. and The Beacon Book of Quotations by best of lesbian wit and wisdom in one Women (1992). These books represent a volume. Arranged topically, Lesbian Sidney Abbott and Barbara Love, great leap forward in women's scholar- Quotations covers subjects ranging from Sappho Was a Right-on Woman, 1972 ship. They constitute a reconceptualiza- Passion to Pets. A great reference, or just tion of history: they place women on browse through this fascinating com- center stage and write us into the script pendium for pure entertainment. called humanity. How audible are les- Rosemary Silva describes the chal- which men have devoted countless trea- bian voices in these collections? Unfortu- lenge of compiling this collection in her tises. Until rather recently, women in the nately, they contain only a few quota- introduction: United States did not have the right to tions by, for, and about lesbians. vote, own houses or property, enroll in Thus this text arose from my percep- ith little effort we can cite innu- institutions of higher learning, enter tion of the almost total absence of lesbi- Wmerable quotations of scholars, male-dominated professions, earn fair ans from the pages of books of quota- poets, writers, actors, statesmen, and wages, travel independently, go to war, tions. This book is an attempt to inscribe politicians. But the vast majority of these or engage in politics. If, by some stroke in memory the precious few recorded quotations are attributable to men —• of luck, women's voices have been heard ideas of those women-loving women white, heterosexual men. Throughout above the uproar of men, rarely have our who, in some thirteenth-century corner time, men have been celebrated and reflections been considered worthy of tower, seventeenth-century garden, or immortalized for their ideas, profound inclusion in the historical record. If, by eighteenth-century sitting room, blessed or baneful, on the human condition. another miraculous stroke of luck, with an independent spirit, heatedly Furthermore, their pronouncements women's reflections are preserved in the discussed women's plight and the pall of have been collected and preserved in historical record, chances are they will patriarchy, or sat alone, jotting by can- books of quotations, and many of these not have made their way into a book of dlelight a passionate letter to a beloved quotations have been repeated so often quotations, the highest honor that can be or a few lines of verse devoted to Sapphic that they are inscribed on the individual bestowed upon them. One need only try love. This book is an attempt to eternal- and collective consciousness. As Ben- to summon to mind quotations by more ize the words of the nineteenth-century jamin Disraeli said, "The wisdom of the than a handful of women to realize that lesbian who, biting her tongue, practiced wise and the experience of the ages are most of women's words, women's re- self-censorship or wrote in code, as- perpetuated by quotations." If we re- flections, are not on the tip of the collec- sumed a male pen name, or changed the member only men's words, not tive tongue. A brief glance at popular gender of fictional characters. women's, then we are merely perpetuat- books of quotations — Bartlett's Familiar In collecting these quotations, my ing the wisdom of wise men and men's Quotations, The Penguin Dictionaiy of desire was to create a sacred repository experiences of the ages, and our vision Quotations, The Dictionaiy of Quotable for the words of those lesbians in the of life is tragically flawed. We are adher- Definitions, Peter's Quotations, and The mid-twentieth century who, against all ing to the denigrating myth that women New Book of Unusual Quotations — con- odds, came out of the closet to decry have no history, no great triumphs of firms this sobering realization. homophobia and crusade for lesbian and genius, no pearls of wisdom worthy of Women, despite their oppression, gay rights, and galvanized as a potent remembrance. have been prolific writers, particularly in political force. These women excavated Where is the inheritance of wisdom the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. the works of their forerunners and began that women, lesbians among them, have Alas, only a handful of books of quota- to piece together the historical, cultural, left us? Throughout the ages, women, no tions, appearing late in this century, have and literary fragments of the lesbian matter their sexual orientation, have been devoted exclusively to women, past, as witnessed by the substantial been barred from the very experiences to among them Feminist Quotations (1979), amount of lesbian research published in 4 a ALYSON BOOK CATALOG THE LESBIAN LOOK Ironically groups of nuns or Lesbians are often mistaken for one another today, since we often travel in female packs oblivious to male attention or needs. Rosemary Curb, in Rosemary Curb and Nancy Manahan, eds., Lesbian Nuns, 1985 Efver, y man should own at least one dress — and so should lesbians. Jane Adams Spahr, 1988, quoted in Leigh W. Rutledge, The Gay Decades, 1992 he Gay method is to wear earrings out of balance. For Lesbians, this could be one in one ear only; two in one ear and three in the other or some other unequal match. the post-Stonewall era. And finally, this "Things My Mother Never Told Me," 2)/ book is an attempt to preserve in quota- in Scene Out (Manchester), August 1989 by tions the words of women-loving : a women who continue the fight against ir- those bastions of heterosexism, homo- lesbians don't have horns or flashing neon signs. ;a- phobia, patriarchy, and religious fanati- Lorraine Trenchard, Being Lesbian, 1989 jn cism in American society, that perpetu- P* ate hatred and violence against lesbians !S- he most telling clue when looking for Lesbians is eye u- and gay men, curb the discussion of contact... If the woman looks back, holding contact instead a- homosexuality in the mainstream, and block the passage of legislation recogniz- of letting her gaze slide quickly away, she is probably a ing the rights of lesbians and gay men. Lesbian. So that we may know more about the Marilyn Murphy, Are You Girls Traveling Alone?, 1991 lesbian than the Newfoundland dog, I a- set out to collect quotations by, for, and be about lesbians from a wide variety of s'o what does a Lesbian look like? Well, we saw two old sources.
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