The Encyclopedia of Gay Folklife will be an 800 page, 2 volume work (approx. 300,000 words). Entries will be between 500-2000 words, depending upon topic and author's recommendations. Those authors that write 3 or more articles will get a free copy (approx. $200 retail).

The publisher is M.E. Sharpe (contact person: Todd Hallman). Editor is Mickey Weems. We are looking for authors for entries that reflect the breadth and width of LGBTQA folklife. In order to distinguish this encyclopedia from other such works about the LGBTQA community, we emphasize the following points:

Aesthetics
Identity
Ethics
Eros
Performance
Coding
Healthways
Lived experience
Spirituality

Those who have done ethnographic research address many of the same concerns as folklorists; such scholars would be qualified to write entries for this work.

Mickey Weems, editor 614-746-1778
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List of Sample Articles

1. A-MEI: (F, 500-1000, Pei Chang) Taiwanese, Music, Ally, Pride, Icon/Diva
2. ACCESSORIZING: Aesthetics, Coding
3.ACTIVISM: Ethos, Healthways
4. ADDAMS, Jane: (F, Joe Goodwin? 500-750) European American, Activism, Icon/Women’s Rights
5. AI, Emperor: (M) Chinese, Legend, Cut Sleeve
6. AIDS: (Diane Goldstein 1500-2000), Healthways, Activism
7. AIDS LEGEND: (Goldstein 1500-2000) Legend, Folktale
8. AIKANE/MAHU: Hawaiian, Myth, Legend, Folktale
9. AITKEN, Robert Roshi: (M) Buddhist, European American, Spirituality, Icon
10. ALLIES: Identity, Activism, Kat Coric, Mae West, Robert Aitken, Emma Goldman
11. ANGEL ACTION: Activism, Spirituality
12. “ANGRY ATTHIS”: Women’s Music, Maxine Feldman
13. ANYTHING THAT MOVES: Bisexual, Journalism
14. ANZALDUA (Anzaldúa), Gloria: (F, Guillermo De Los Reyes &JP 500-750) Hispanic American, Icon/Mestiza Nueva, Myth, Legend
15. ASSIMILATION: Identity, The Closet
16. BALLAD: (Pauline Greenhill 1500-2000), Folklore
17. BAR/NIGHTCLUB: Community, Gay Space
18. BATHHOUSE: Eros, Community, Gay Space
19. BEAR: (1500-2000 David Dombrosky) Identity, Masculinity
20. BEAR FESTIVAL/RUN: (500-1000, Dombrosky) Community, Festival
21. BEAR MUSIC: (500-1000 Dombrosky) Masculinity, Aesthetics, Music
22. BENTLEY, Gladys: (F) a.k.a. “Brown Bomber,” African American, Performance, Transgender, Icon/Blues, Harlem Renaissance, the Closet
23. BINGHAM, Mark: (M) Icon/Hero, Sports, Bear, 9/11
24. BISEXUAL: Identity
25. BITCH: (F) Women’s Music, European American?
26. BLACK AND BLUE BALL: Montreal, Festival, Circuit, Healthways, Harm Reduction, Circuit, Visual/Material Culture
27. BLACK, LATINA/O PRIDE: Festival, Pride
28. BODY FASCISM/BODY IMAGE: (2000, Jason Whitesel) Identity, Ethos, Eros, Healthways, Circuit
29. BOSTON MARRIAGE: Community, Identity, Family, Marriage
30. BOURASSA, Kevin and Joe VARNELL: (M) Toronto, European Canadian, Marriage, Activism
31. BUBBALICIOUS: (M) Atlanta, European American, Drag, Quilt
32. BUCK ANGEL: (F2M, Meredith Pilling & Pauline Greenhill 500-750), European American, Intersex, Transgender, Eros, Icon
33. BURLESQUE: (500-1000, Sarah Moore) Eros, Performance
34. CARLOS LAS VEGAS: (F&M) Winnipeg, Drag, Gender, Burlesque, Phillipino Canadian
35. CAMP: Performance, Coding
36. CARTOON AND COMICS: Visual/Material Culture
37. CHINN, Stacyann: Spoken Word/Hip-Hop, African American/Chinese American
38. CHRISTIAN, Meg: (Leslie Berman) Women’s Music, European American
39. CIRCUIT PARTY: Festival, Masculinity, Spiritual
40. CLOSET: Identity, Assimilation
41. CODING: (Jo Radner)
42. COLOR GUARD: Performance, Festival
43. COMEDY: Performance
44. COMING OUT: (1500-2000, Arlene Scala) Performance, Outing
45. COMMUNITY
46. CORIC, Kat: (F) European Quebecoise, Activism, Healthways, Harm Reduction, Circuit, Visual/Material Culture
47. CROSS-DRESSING: Performance, Coding
48. CULTURE WARS: (1500, David Dombrosky) Activism
49. DANA INTERNATIONAL: (M2F) Israeli, Activism, Icon
50. DANCE: Performance, Activism, Community
51. DAUGHTERS OF BILITIS: Identity, Activism
52. DAVIS, Gerald: (M), African American, Icon/Folklorist
53. DEEP DICKOLLECTIVE: Hip-Hop/Spoken Word, Performance
54. DEMPSEY, Shawna and Lorri MILLAN: (F, Pauline Greenhill 750-1000), Canadian, Performance
55. DINA SHORE CLASSIC: Palm Springs, Festival, Circuit
56. DIANIC WICCA: Spirituality, Religion, Lesbian
57. DIASPORA: (Cory Thorne 1500-2000), Community, Geography
58. DILLON, Michael: (first F2M post-op transman) British, Buddhist, Spirituality, Religion, the Closet, Assimilation
59. DJ CULTURE: Performance
60. DOCUMENTARY: Activism, Performance, Out of the Shadows, Into the Sun, Parvez Sharma, Trembling Before G-d, Jenny Livingston
61. DOBKIN, Alix: (F, Leslie Berman) European American, Women’s Music, Lavender Jane Loves Women
62. DRAG: (Jennifer Spitulnik) Performance, Gender, Drag King, Drag Queen, Vogue
63. DRAG BALL: (2000 Jennifer Spitulnik) Festival, Harlem Renaissance
64. DRAG KING: (Sile Singleton 1000-2000) Performance, Identity, IDKE, Carlos Las Vegas
65. DRAG HOUSE/TROUPE: Performance, Community, Drag King, Drag Queen
66. DRAG QUEEN: Performance, Identity, Bubbalicious, Dana International, Sylvester
67. DYKES ON BIKES Performance, Activism, Pride
68. EMMA JONES: Pensacola, Festival
69. EROS
70. ETHOS
71. EX-GAY: Identity, Activism, Ethos, Religion, Assimilation
72. FAMILY: Community, Marriage
73. FEINBERG, Leslie: (F2M, Meredith Pilling & Pauline Greenhill 500-750) European American, Performance, Stone Butch Blues, Gender
74. FEMININITY: (Lonnie Kasow?) Eros, Identity
75. FEMINISM: (1500-2000, Arlene Scala) Activism, Ethos
76. FESTIVAL: Performance, Women’s Music Festival, Bear Festival/Run, Circuit Party
77. FIRE ISLAND: (1500-2000, Steve Weinstein) Community, Geography
78. FLAG: (Sarah Moore) Coding, Identity
79. FLAGGING AND FANNING: Performance, Circuit
80. FOLK MUSIC: Folklore, Performance, Aesthetics
81. FOLKTALE: (Octavia Caldeira), Folklore
82. FOLKLORE: (Jennifer Spitulnik)
83. FOUCAULT, Michel: (M, Todd Callais) French, Activism, Icon/Philosopher
84. GAY: Identity, Coding
85. GAY GAMES: Sports, Festival
86. GAY SPACE: Geography, Community
87. GENDER: Performance, Identity
88. GEOGRAPHY: Community, Gay Space, Shrine
89. GIRLS IN THE NOSE: (500-1500, Lisa Higgins) Women’s Music
90. GOD(DESS): Myth, Religion
91. GOLDMAN, Emma: (F) Activism, Jewish American, Icon/Anarchist, Ally
92. GREENBERG, Steve: (M) Rabbi, NYC, Jewish (Ashkenazi) American
93. GRONDIN, Stephan: DJ Culture, Quebecois
94. GUNN, Sakia: (F) African American (killed at age 15 for being Lesbian), Icon/Hero, Martyr
95. HALLOWEEN: Festival, New Orleans, the Castro
96. HANH Thi Pham: (F) Vietnamese American, Performance, Aesthetics
97. HANKY CODE: (1000, Dombrosky) Coding
98. HARM REDUCTION: Healthways, Circuit
99. HEALTHWAYS
100. H.I.S. KINGS: (Sile Singleton 1000-2000) Drag, Performance
101. HIV EVENTS: (Diane Goldstein 1500-2000) Festival, Community
102. HIJRA/KHUSRA: (Olivia Caldeira) India, Pakistan
103. HOMOEROTICISM IN MALE INITIATION: (Carol Burke) Eros, Performance, Ritual
104. HOMOEROTICISM IN MILITARY FOLKSPEECH: (Carol Burke) Eros, Folklore, Military
105. HOMOPHOBIA: (1000-2000, Kat Long?) Identity
106. Homosexual: Identity
107. IDENTITY: (1000-2000, Jason Whitesel)
108. IDKE (500-1000, Sile Singleton) Drag King, Festival
109. ICON: Coding, Identity, Saint, Visual/Material Culture
110. IML-Chicago: Leather, Festival, Eros
111. INTERNET: (Sarah Moore) Gay Space, Community
112. INTERSEX: (500, Jason Whitesel) Identity
113. INVASION OF THE PINES, Fire Island: Festival, Drag
114. JAMA, Afdhere: (M) San Francisco, Somali American
115. JOKE: (Joe Goodwin/Diane Goldstein 1500-2000)
116. JORDAN, June: (F) Women’s Music, African American
117. JOURNALISM: (Michael Daniels) Activism
118. KALAMKA Juba: (M) Hip-Hop/ Spoken Word, African American
119. KATHOEY: Transgender, Thailand
120. KITTY MEOW: (M) Miami, Circuit, African American
121. KLEINBAUM, Sharon: (F) Rabbi, NYC, Jewish (Ashkenazi) American
122. KNUCKLES, Frankie: (M) Chicago, DJ Culture, African American
123. KUTHANDAVAR-ARAVAN FESTIVAL: India (Olivia Caldeira), Transgender
124. KVISA SHCHORA: (Hebrew—“Dirty Laundry,” Jackie ----), Activism, Israel, World Peace, “There Is No Pride In Occupation”
125. THE LADDERr: Activism, Community, Lesbian
126. LAVENDER JANE LOVES WOMEN (Lavender Jane): (Nancy Nusz 750-1000) Women’s Music
127. LAVENDER LIGHT GOSPEL CHOIR: NYC, Spirituality, Performance
128. LEATHER: (Dombrosky) Eros, Identity, Masculinity
129. LEVAN, Larry: (M) NYC, DJ Culture, Icon/DJ, African American
130. Legend: Folklore, Ai, Mark Bingham, Sappho
131. Lesbian (Sarah Moore): Identity
132. Lesbian Avengers: Activism, Performance
133. LGBTIQA: Identity, Coding
134. LIVED EXPERIENCE: Folklore, Legend
135. LIVINGSTON, Jenny: (F) Documentary, European American, Vogue
136. LYON, Phyllis and Del Martin (F) Icons/Couple, European American, Activism. Marriage, The Ladder
137. MACHISMO: (Guillermo De Los Reyes 1000-2000) Eros, Identity, Masculinity
138. MAESTRAPEACE BUILDING: San Francisco (Martha Sims) Visual/Material Culture
139. THE MADISON: (300-500) Dance, Fire Island
140. MANJI, IRSHAD: (F) Toronto, Muslim, Activism, Religion
141. MARRIAGE: (Jennifer Spitulnik) Community, Family
142. MASCULINITY: Eros, Identity, Leather, Bear, Drag King
143. MATTACHINE SOCIETY: Activism, Performance, Gender
144. MARTYR: Icon, Brandon Teena (Nebraska), Gwen Araujo(California), Sakia Gunn (New Jersey), Matthew Shepard (Wyoming), Harvey Milk, Gay Panic, Twinkie Defense, White Night Riot
145. MCKINLEY, Dawn and Kathy REYNOLDS: (F) Cherokee, Marriage, Community, Family
146. METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY CHURCH: Religion, Activism
147. METROSEXUAL: Identity, Assimilation, Masculinity
148. MEDEVENT: Healthways, Circuit, Harm Reduction
149. MICHIGAN WOMYN’S MUSIC FESTIVAL: (Lisa Higgins 1000-1500) Community, Women’s Music, Spirituality, Gay Space
150. MILITARY: Eros, Activism, Mishima Yukio, Homoerotism, Homophobia, the Closet, Circuit, Oliver Sipple
151. MISHIMA Yukio: (M) Japanese, Icon, Masculinity, the Closet
152. MIXING/REMIXING: DJ Culture
153. MOLKARA, Maryam Hatoon: (M2F) Iranian, Activism, Religion, Gender
154. MOLLY HOUSE: (Guillermo De Los Reyes 1500-2000) England, Community, Performance, Cross-Dressing
155. MONA’S: San Francisco, Bar/Club, Gladys Bentley, Cross-Dressing
156. MORABITO, Susan: (F, Steve Weinstein) Cleveland, NYC, DJ Culture, Circuit, European American
157. MORAN, Tony: (M) Colombian-Irish American, DJ Culture, Circuit
158. MUSIC: Aesthetics, Performance, Women’s Music, Bear Music, Mixing/Remixing
159. MUXE: (Guillermo De Los Reyes 1000-2000), Transgender, Performance, Mexico
160. MYTH: Folklore, Religion
161. NATIONAL WOMEN’S MUSIC FESTIVAL
162. NEAR, Holly: (F, Leslie Berman) Women’s music, European American
163. NILSA, Melka and Wetka POLANG: (F) Kandha Tribe, India, Marriage, Community, Family
164. NON-VIOLENCE AND ANTI-VIOLENCE: Ethos, Masculinity, Family, Bayard Rustin, Sakia Gunn, Stonewall, White Night Riots, Spirituality
165. OLSEN, Alix: (F) Women’s Music, Spoken Word, European American?
166. ORISHA (Orishá): Yoruba Religion, Myth, God(dess), Gender, Spirituality, Ritual, Identity
167. OUTING: Performance, Identity, Pride, Oliver Sipple, Military, the Closet
168. OUT OF THE SHADOWS, INTO THE SUN/SANGRE TORERA: Kathryn Klassen, Quebecoise, Documentary, Gender, Sports, Femininity, the Closet
169. OVARIAN MUSIC: Aesthetics, Women’s Music, Femininity
170. PARADISE GARAGE: (Mark Thompson 1000-1500) NYC, Club, Larry Levan
171. PFLAG: Allies, Community, Family, Ex-Gays
172. PHIL B: (M) San Francisco, DJ Culture, Indian Australian
173. PIEL, Candida Scott: (F) NYC, Activism, European American, Flagging and Fanning, AIDS Activism
174. POLARI: (Cory Thorne), Coding, British
175. POETRY: Aesthetics, Stacyann Chinn, Deep Dickollective, Sappho, Juba Kalamka, Walt Whitman, Oscar Wilde
176. PRIDE: (1500-2000, MickeyWeems) Festival, Ritual, Coming Out, Stonewall, Black, Latino/a Pride
177. PROJECT LAZARUS-New Orleans: AIDS, Healthways, Spirituality
178. PUNANI POETS: Performance, African American, Stacyann Chinn
179. QUALIA: Folklore, Festival, Bubbadelicious, Hinaleimoana Wong, Drag King, Steve Greenberg, Kat Coric, Quilt
180. QUEER: Identity
181. QUEERCORE: Music, Performance
182. QUEERED CHILDREN’S CHARACTERS: (Diane Goldstein 1000-1500) Identity, Cartoon/Comics
183. QUILT: (Diane Goldstein 1500-2000) Activism, Visual/Material Culture, Spirituality, Qualia, Shrine, Bubbadelicious
184. RAINBOW: Coding, Activism, Identity, Flag
185. RAINEY, Ma: (F) African American, Blues, Icon/Singer, Bessie Smith, Gladys Bentley
186. RADICAL FAERIES: Activism, Spirituality
187. REAGON, Toshi: (F) Women’s Music, African American, Women’s Music Festival
188. RED PARTY: Columbus (Martha Sims) Circuit, Festival, Corbett Reynolds, Visual/Material Culture, Eros, Spirituality
189. REVELATIONS: Theater, Appalachia
190. REYNOLDS, Corbett: (M) Festival, European American, Visual and Material Culture, Icon/Artist, Circuit, AIDS, Activism, Red Party
191. RELIGION: Spirituality, Performance, Identity, Sharon Kleinbaum, Steve Greenberg, Ritual, Parvez Sharma, MCC, Trembling Before G-d, Saint, Icon
192. RIBBONS, Pink and Red: (Mojca Ramsak) Coding, Healthways
193. RITUAL: (1500-2000,Weems) Spirituality, Performance, Women’s Music Festival, Circuit, Coming Out, Leather, Coding, Quilt, Folklore
194. RIVERA, Sylvia: (M2F) NYC, Hispanic American, Activism, Icon/Activist, Stonewall
195. RODEO: (500-750, Craig Miller) Sports, Performance, Identity, Gender
196. RUBIO AND KID: (M) Miami, European American, Performance, Circuit, Masculinity
197. RUSTIN, Bayard: (M) Activism, African American, Non-Violence and Anti-Violence, World Peace, Spirituality, Icon/Civil Rights
198. SAINT: Spirituality, Icon, Religion
199. THE SAINT: NYC (Steve Weinstein 1000-1500) Club, Circuit
200. SAPPHO: (F) Poetry, Icon/Poet, Lesbian
201. SARRIA, José: (M) San Francisco, Hispanic American, Drag Queen, Activism
202. SCARLET OOH: (F) Fire Island, European American, Drag
203. SEX WARS: Eros, Activism, Feminism
204. SHERADON SQUARE: (NYC) Geography, Visual/Material Culture, Stonewall, Shrine
205. SISTERS OF PERPETUAL INDULGENCE: Drag, Spirituality, Activism
206. SHARMA, Parvez: (M) NYC Pakistani (Martha Sims) Documentary (A Jihad for Love), Islam
207. SHRINE: Geography, Sheridan Square, Stonewall Inn, Wilde’s grave (Paris), Quilt warehouse (Atlanta)
208. SIPPLE, Oliver (M) Icon/Hero, Outing, Military, Harvey Milk
209. SMITH, Bessie (F) Blues, African American, Icon/Singer, Harlem Renaissance
210. Sodom: (Guillermo De Los Reyes 1000-2000) Geography, Identity, the Closet, Ex-Gay
211. SPIRITUALITY
212. SPORTS: Performance, The Closet, Mark Bingham
213. STONEWALL: (1500-2000, Weems) Myth, Geography, Identity, Activism, Sheridan Square, Pride
214. STEIN, Gertrude and Alice B. TOKLAS: (F) European American, Icons/Couple
215. SUFFRAGETTE: (Joe Goodwin?) Activism, Jane Addams
216. SWORN VIRGIN: Albania, Gender
217. SYLVESTER: (M) Drag, Music, African American, Icon/Singer
218. SYMBOL: Coding
219. TANGO: (1000, Mojca Ramsak) Argentina Dance
220. THEATER: Performance, Aesthetics, Takarazuka Review, Revelations, Spirituality, Pride, Fire Island
221. TAKARAZUKA REVUE: Japan, Cross-dressing, Performance, Theater
222. TRANSGENDER: (1500-200, Arlene Scala) Identity
223. TRANSGENDER/INTERSEX HEALTHWAYS: Healthways, Women’s Healthways
224. TREMBLING BEFORE G-D: documentary, Religion, Jewish, Steve Greenberg
225. TSUI, Kitty: (F) Hong Kong, Asian American, Aesthetics, Activism, Visual/Material Culture
226. TRIANGLE, Black and Pink: (500-1000, Mojca Ramsak) Symbol, Non-Violence and Anti-Violence
227. TURKISH OIL WRESTLING: (Scott Van Tussenbrook & Mickey Weems 1500-2000) Eros, Performance, Sport, Masculinity, the Closet
228. TWO-SPIRIT: Native American, Spirituality, We’wha
229. URANUS: Identity, Myth, Oscar Wilde, Activism, Assimilation
230. VILLAGE PEOPLE: Music, Icon, the Closet, Masculinity
231. VISUAL/MATERIAL CULTURE: Aesthetics, MaestraPeace Building, Circuit, Harm Reduction
232. VOGUE: Performance, Vogue House, Willi Ninja, Vogue House
233. VOGUE HOUSE: Community, Vogue, Willi Ninja
234. WEBSITE www.sappho.com: Gay Space, Community, Internet, Aesthetics
235. WEBSITE www.tweaker.org: Gay Space, Community, Internet, Healthways
236. WE’WHA: (M2F) Zuni, Spirituality, Identity, Icon
237. WEST, Mae: (F, Jim Deutsch) European American, Theater, Activism, Icon/Playwright
238. WHITMAN, Walt: (M) European American, Poetry, Activism, Icon/Poet
239. WHITE NIGHT RIOTS (May 21, 1979): Legend, Martyr (Harvey Milk), Quilt, Lyon and Martin, homophobia, activism
240. WILDE, Oscar: (M) Irish, Icon/Wit, Uranus, Shrine
241. WILLI NINJA: (M) NYC, Vogue, African American
242. WILLIAMSON, Cris: (F, Leslie Berman) Women’s Music, European American?
243. WONG, Hinaleimoana: (M2F) Hawaiian, Activism, Mahu/Aikane, Dance (Hula), Legend, Myth, Chant (Oli)
244. WOMEN’S HEALTHWAYS: Healthways, Activism
245. WOMEN’S MUSIC: (Lisa Higgins 1500-2000) Music, Community, Activism
246. WOMEN’S MUSIC FESTIVAL: (Lisa Higgins 1500-2000) Women’s Music, Community, Activism, Ritual
247. WORLD PEACE: Ethos, Spirituality, Bayard Rustin, Kvisa Shchora, Pride
248. XENA, WARRIOR PRINCESS: Performance, Festival, Icon/Hero
249. XINGA: (F) Angolan, Legend, Gender, Cross-Dressing
250. ‘YAN DAUDU: Nigerian, Transgender, Spirituality
251. ZAP: Activism, Performance

General Categories

IDENTITY: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex, Queer, Homosexual, the Closet, Homophobia, Assimilation
FOLKLORE: Folktale, Folk Music, Legend, Myth, Visual/Material Culture, Lived Experience, Gerry Davis, Ballad
COMMUNITY: Women’s Music Festival, Drag, the Circuit, Leather, Bear, Geography, Internet, Family
AESTHETICS: Visual/Material culture, Accessorizing, Music, Dance
CODING: Symbol, Icon, Gender
PERFORMANCE: Coming Out, Festival, Music, Pride, Drag, Documentary, Camp
HEALTHWAYS: Harm Reduction, AIDS, Women’s Healthways, Transgender/Intersex Healthways
ETHOS: Activism/Advocacy, Feminism, Non-Violence and Anti-Violence, World Peace
EROS: Bathhouse, Burlesque, Leather, Sex Wars, Homoerotism
SPIRITUALITY: Religion, Ritual
EDITORIAL BOARD

Guillermo De Los Reyes
Joe Goodwin
Pauline Greenhill
Sile Singleton
Polly Stewart
Cory Thorne

ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Pei Chang
Michael Daniels
Diane Goldstein
Chris Hayes
Lorena Kocheran
Kevin Mason