Queerly Phrased

Introduction, Anna Livia and Kira Hall, Editors Part 1: LAVENDER LEXICALITY Two Lavender Issues for Linguists, Arnold Zwicky, Stanford University and Ohio State University The Elusive Bisexual: Social Categorization and Lexico-Semantic Change, M. Lynne Murphy Les Molles et les chausses: Mapping the Isle of Hermaphrodites in Pre-Modern France, Randy P. Conner, University of Texas The Color of His Eyes: Polari and the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, Ian Lucas Pots and Pans: Identification of Queer Japanese in Terms of Discrimination, James Valentine Talking about Feygelekh: A Queer Male Representation in Jewish American Speech, Michael J. Sweet Read My Lips: Clypping and Kyssing in the 16th Century, Diane Watt, University of Aberystwyth, Wales Sappho, or the Importance of Culture in the Language of Love, Marie-Jo Bonnet, Paris France Lexical Variation in the Deaf Community Relating to Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Signs, Mala Kleinfeld and Noni Warner The Elusive "Bisexual", Lynne Murphy, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa Part 2: QUEERSPEAK The Homo-Genius Community, Rusty Barrett, University of Texas at Austin "Falling Short of God's Ideal": Public Discourse about Lesbians and Gays, Elizabeth Morrish, Nottingham Trent University Que(e)rying Friendship: Discourses of Resistance and the Construction of Gendered Subjectivity, Jennifer Coates and Mary Ellen Jordan, Roehampton Institute and Melbourne University "I Don't Speak Spritch": Locating Lesbian Language, Robin M. Queen Narrative Iconicity in Electronic-Mail, Lesbian Coming- Out Stories, Kathleen M. Wood The Creation of Coherence in Coming-Out Stories, A. C. Liang Performative Effect in Three Gay English Texts, William Leap, American University Homophobic Slang as Coercive Discourse Among College Students, James Armstrong, State University of New York, Plattsburgh Deaf Identity, Lesbian Identity: Intersections in a Life Narrative, Tina Neumann, Gallaudet University Toward the Study of Lesbian Speech, Birch Moonwomon-Baird, Ohio State University Part 3: LINGUISTIC GENDER-BENDING Disloyal to Masculinity: Linguistic Gender and Liminal Identity in French, Anna Livia Surrogate Phonology and Transsexual Faggotry, Bruce Bagemihl, University of British Colombia, Canada Linguistic Gender Play amoung French Gays and Lesbians, Genevieve Pastre, Publisher, les Octaviennes, France The Gendering of the Gay Male Sex Class in Japan, Janet Shibamoto Smith, University of California at Davis Not Talking Straight in Hausa, Rudolf Gaudio, Stanford University Go Suck Your Husband's Sugarcane: Hijras and the Use of Sexual Insult, Kira Hall, University of California at Berkeley