Please respond directly to John C. Hawley, Chair of the English
Department, Santa Clara University 408 554 4956 jhawley@scu.edu
I am editing a three-volume 600,000 word encyclopedia for Greenwood
Press, entitled LGBTQ America Today. The book is well-advanced, and I
have received 525 entries. With such a large endeavor, however, it is
not surprising that various writers who have committed to the project
find that personal matters sometimes intercede and make it impossible
for them to complete their writing for the book in time for our
contractual obligations to the press. The following topics, therefore,
have become available. You will see that many of them are extremely
important. If you are able to commit to completing any of these by the
end of October (a firm deadline: do not accept an assignment unless you
are committed to its completion by that date, or sometime sooner),
please let me know immediately and I will let you know whether or not it
still remains available. When you express interest in a particular
topic, I’ll send more details of the project. Thanks. -John C. Hawley,
Chair of the English Department, Santa Clara University 408 554 4956
jhawley@scu.edu
Adrienne Rich 1000 words
African American Interface with LGBTQ Movement and Issues 3,000 words
Alison Bechdel 250
Art and Photography, Intro essay 1500
Asian American Feminism 1200
Barbara Seyda 300
Bertha Harris 350
Butch-Femme 1000
Camille Paglia 300
Canonical Issues (the incorporation of gay topics into the elementary
and secondary school classroom, etc) 1500
Christopher Isherwood 750
CLAGS 1500
Coming of Age Fiction 1500
Conrad Susa 250
David Zamora Casas 300
Doris Grumbach 300
Down Low, The 500
Ethan Mordden 300
Fat Acceptance 500 words
Feliz Gonzalez-Torres 300
Gay Ghettoes 750
George Segal 300
GLAD (Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders) 750
Health and Health Care Law and Policy 3000
Isabel Miller 300
Jennifer Levin 300
Joan Snyder 300
Joe Goode 500
Katherine V. Forrest 500
Larry Kramer 500
Leo F. Cabranes-Grant 300
Lesbian 1500
Linda Besemer 300
Lisa Alther 300
Margaret Randall 300
Mark Doty 500
May Sarton 500
Michiyo Fukaya 300
Midwest (GLBT life in) 400
Mixed-Orientation Marriages (gay/straight) 1250
Monogamy, Non-Monogramy, and Promiscuity 2500
Muriel Rukeyser 500
NAMES Project 2000
Online Hook-ups, Phone Sex, Queers in Cyberspace, Sex on Camming 2500
Paul Monette 1250
Politicians (including Barney Frank, James Hormel, et al) 1,000
Privacy and Privacy Rights 2900
Provincetown 500
Reinaldo Arenas 750
Ricardo Bracho 250
Robert Rauschenberg 400
Ross Bleckner 300
Ruth Geller 300
San Francisco Bay Area poets (Blaser, Robin; Broughton, James;
Duncan, Robert; Ginsberg, Allen; Gunn, Thom; Spicer, Jack; Wieners,
John) 1,700
Susan Stinson 300
Sylvester 500
Tony Kushner 750
Trailblazing Artists and Photographers (Abbott, Berenice,Bernhard,
Ruth; Brooks, Romaine; Cadmus, Paul; Eakins, Thomas; French, Jared;
Hartley, Marsden; Touko Laaksonen, Leyendecker, J. C.; Lynes, George
Platt; Mars, Ethel; Bob Mizer; Parsons, Betty; Squire, Maude; White,
Minor) 2,500
Transgender Health Issues 2000
Truman Capote 1000
Wayne Koestenbaum 300
Women’s and Gender Studies in Universities 2500
Women’s Music and Festivals 1500