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July 1998
352 pp., 203 illus.
$32.00/£23.95 (PAPER)
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ISBN-10:
0-262-57125-0
ISBN-13:
978-0-262-57125-8

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Particular Voices
Portraits of Gay and Lesbian Writers
Robert Giard
Foreword by Julia VanHaaften


Winner of the 1998 Lambda Literary Award for Photography and Visual Arts

In 1985 photographer Robert Giard set out to create an archive of portraits of gay and lesbian writers from across the United States. The result is the most extensive photographic record of the gay and lesbian literary community ever undertaken. This book contains 182 of the more than 500 portraits Giard has made. The collection underscores the diversity of the gay population and encompasses a broad range of literary genres: fiction, poetry, drama, personal narrative, history, criticism, and political/activist statements. Taken as a whole, the portraits and excerpts encompass the many-faceted history of the gay/lesbian experience in the United States over the past seventy-five years.

The book also features a foreword by Julia VanHaaften, Curator of Photographs at the New York Public Library; an introduction by Giard, "Self-Portrait of a Gay Reader"; an essay by Christopher Bram on gay writing; and an essay by Joan Nestle on lesbian writing.


Endorsements

"Stirring and gorgeous."
Out Magazine



Awards

Winner of the 1998 Lambda Literary Award for Photography and Visual Arts.





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