Daring to Find Our Names: The Search for Lesbigay Library History

Contents: Introduction: Makeover Without a Mirror A Face for Lesbigay Library History / James V. Carmichael, Jr. Finding Our Names: Theory, Problems, and Context. Methodological Issues in Research with Lesbians, Gay Men, and Bisexuals / Caitlin Ryan, Judy Bradford A Lesbigay Gender Perplex: Sexual Stereotyping and Professional Ambiguity in Librarianship / Christine L. Williams Biographical Research on Lesbigay Subjects: Editing the Letters of Lillian Smith / Margaret Rose Gladney A Closet Curtained by Circumspection: Doing Research on the McCarthy Era Purge of Gays from the Library of Congress / Louise S. Robbins Queer Histories/Queer Librarians: The Historical Development of a Gay Monograph / Norman G. Kester Telling Our Names: the Pioneers -- Gays in Library Land: The Gay and Lesbian Task Force of the American Library Association: The First Sixteen Years / Barbara Gittings A Personal Task Force Scrapbook: "Incunabula," 1971-1972 and After / Kay Tobin Lahusen, Barbara Gittings Reclaiming a Founding / Israel D. Fishman Librarians as Cultural Enforcers / Janet Cooper The Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Task Force of the American Library Association: A Chronology of Activities, 1970-1995 / Cal Gough Saving Our Names: Lesbigay Library/Archival Collections -- Archivists, Activists, and Scholars: Creating a Queer History / Brenda J. Marston Building "A Home of Our Own": The Construction of the Lesbian Herstory Archives / Polly J. Thistlethwaite