Camille Roy, The Rosy Medallions (Berkeley: Kelsey Street Press, 1995), 27.
Dawn Lundy Martin, The Morning Hour (New York: The Poetry Society of America, 2003), 8.
Holland Cotter, “Sexuality in Modernism: The (Partial) History,” The New York Times, December 10, 2010. Cotter writes, “The whole enterprise looked like an exercise in Hall of Fame-building, rather than like an effort to chip away at the very idea of hierarchy and exclusion.”
Robert Atkins, “Goodbye Lesbian/Gay History, Hello ‘Queer Sensibility’: Meditating on Curatorial Practice,” College Art Association Journal 55, No. 4 (1996): 80–85. Atkins criticizes curators Lawrence Rinder and Nayland Blake of the Berkeley Art Museum 1996 “In a Different Light,” as well as Art in America’s “After Stonewall,” which was a “package of 12 interviews conceived and realized by Holland Cotter…At its most problematic, the contemporary-oral-history format obviates any give and take. This reader yearned, for instance, for Cotter’s response to Hugh Steers’s observation that ‘gay art is a marketing label ... it’s important to discuss it and expose the fallacy of lumping us all together.’”
Chuck Mobley, Julia Haas, Alison Maurer, Irene Gustafson, Jonathan D. Katz, Kim Anno, Julian Carter, and Robert Atkins, “Emergency Screening: A Fire in My Belly—a short film by David Wojnarowicz and Panel Discussion,” SF Camerawork, December 10, 2010.
“Suggestions of a Life Being Lived,” SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA, September 9–October 23, 2010. Exhibit featured Steven Miller, Tara Mateik, Killer Banshee, Gay Shame, Kirstyn Russell, Jeannie Simms, Lenn Keller, Mercury Vapor Studios, Chris Vargas, Greg Youmans, Jason Fritz Michael, Aay Preston-Myint, Allyson Mitchell, Eric Stanley, Torsten Zenas Burns, and Darrin Martin.
Adrienne Skye Roberts, in discussion with the author, October 13, 2010.
Suggestions of a Life Being Lived, ed. Danny Orendorff and Adrienne Skye Roberts (San Francisco: SF Camerawork, 2011), 13.
Ibid., 34.
Jonathan D. Katz, Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Books, 2011), 23. Katz quoting Abbott in an interview with Kaucyila Brooke. Katz also cites Tee A. Corinne’s self-published 1996 book The Lesbian Eye of Berenice Abbott.
Peter Hujar, “Susan Sontag,” “Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture” (Washington, DC: National Portrait Gallery), 2010, Museum Exhibit Label.
Susan Sontag, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947–1963, ed. David Rieff (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008), 221.
Margalit Fox, “Susan Sontag, Social Critic with Verve, dies at 71,” New York Times, December 28, 2004: →
Lisa Levy, “Critical Intimacy: Comparing the Paradoxical Obituaries of Susan Sontag,” The Believer, April 2006. Terry Castle eulogized Sontag in a very “out” way by reflecting on difficulty in their friendship in The London Review of Books in 2005. Castle also cites Allan Gurganus’s The Advocate obituary, which expresses the wish that Sontag came out.
Sontag, Reborn, 221.
Sarah Schulman, Ties that Bind: Familial Homophobia and Its Consequences (New York: The New Press, 2009), 122.
“More About Kay Ryan: Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry, 2008-2010,” The Poetry and Literature Center at the Library of Congress, →.
The Poet’s View: Intimate Profiles of Five Major Poets, directed by Mel Stuart (Filmmakers Library, 2009), 95 mins.
Kay Ryan, Dragon Acts to Dragon Ends (Fairfax: Taylor Street Press, 1983), 26.
Ryan, The Best of It (New York: Grove Press, 2010), 110–11.
Ibid.
Ryan, interview by Ian Mylchreest, KNPR’s State of Nevada, 88.9 KNPR FM, November 4, 2009.
Danielle Evennou, “The Elephant in the Room: Kay Ryan,” Beltway: Poetry Quarterly 10 (2009), Vol. 4.
Eileen Myles, “Poetry in the 80s.” Eileen Myles, June 2012, 7-8, →.
Myles, “How to Run for President of the United States of America,” DO IT Manual, e-flux, 1995.
Sharon Olds, “Open Letter to Laura Bush,” The Nation, September 19, 2005, →. Sharon Olds declined an invitation by Laura Bush to the White House in protest of the Iraq war.
Kevin Quashie, The Sovereignty of Quiet: Beyond Resistance in Black Culture (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2012), 97.
Richard Blanco, interviewed by Terry Gross, Fresh Air, NPR, February 18, 2013.
T’Aint Nobody’s Bizness: Queer Blues Divas of the 1920s, directed by Robert Philipson (San Francisco: Shoga Films Foundation, 2013).
Jocelyn Saidenberg, email to the author, February 22, 2016.
Saidenberg, Mortal City (San Diego: Parenthesis Writing Series, 1998), 7.
Saidenberg, Dead Letter (New York: Roof Books, 2014), 15.
Judith Butler: Philosophical Encounters of the Third Kind, directed by Paule Zajdermann (First Run/Icarus Films, 2006), 52 mins.
Jacqueline Francis, Making Race: Modernism and “Racial Art” in America (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2012), 10.
“Simplicity Craving” is an excerpted chapter from Ariel Goldberg's book-length essay The Estrangement Principle, forthcoming from Nightboat Books in October 2016.