Queer Ideas

The Kessler Lectures in Lesbian and Gay Studies

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Edited by Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies,

Foreword by Alissa Solomon,

Introduction by Martin Duberman

Feminist Press

Due/Published January 2004, 256 pages, paper

ISBN 1558614494

This volume brings together ten core thinkers in the field of lesbian and gay studies. Participants in the outstanding Kessler series, hosted by the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, present ten diverse approaches to the experiences, history, and culture of lesbian and gay people, and in the process they think new and queer ideas into being. Beginning with Joan Nestle, who explores the outsider status of lesbians through the complex life a black lesbian domestic worker, and ending with Judith Butler, who speaks on -human rights in the aftermath of September 11, the collection includes the pantheon of queer theorists: Edmund White on queer fiction and criticism, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick on the dialogics of love, and John D'Emilio on gay civil rights activist Bayard Rustin, and more.