Ebook: Bodies of evidence: the practice of queer oral history

"Bodies of Evidence: The Practice of Queer Oral History is the first book to provide serious scholarly insight into the methodological practices that shape lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer oral histories. Each chapter pairs an oral history excerpt with an essay in which the oral historian addresses his or her methods and practices. With an afterword by John D'Emilio, this collection enables readers to examine the role memory, desire, sexuality, and gender play in documenting LGBTQ communities and cultures. The historical themes addressed include 1950s and '60s lesbian bar culture; social life after the Cuban revolution; the organization of transvestite social clubs in the U.S. midwest in the 1960s; Australian gay liberation activism in the 1970s; San Francisco electoral politics and the career of Harvey Milk; Asian American community organizing in pre-AIDS Los Angeles; lesbian feminist 'sex war' cultural politics; 1980s and '90s Latina/o transgender community memory and activism in San Francisco; and the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. The methodological themes include questions of silence, sexual self-disclosure and voyeurism, the intimacy between researcher and narrator, and the social and political commitments negotiated through multiple oral history interviews. The book also examines the production of comparative racial and sexual identities and the relative strengths of same-sexuality, cross-sexuality, and cross-ideology interviewing."--Publisher's description.;Close encounters : the body and knowledge in queer oral history / Horacio N. Roque Ramírez and Nan Alamilla Boyd -- Silence -- Sex, "silence", and audiotape : listening for female same-sex desire in Cuba / Carrie Hamilton -- Remembering Provincetown : oral history and narrativity at land's end / Karen Krahulik -- Queer family stories : learning from oral histories with lesbian mothers and gay fathers from the pre-stonewall era / Daniel Rivers -- Spiraling desire : recovering the lesbian embodied self in oral history narrative / Jeff Friedman -- Sex -- Talking about sex : Cheryl Gonzales and Rikki Streicher tell their stories / Nan Alamilla Boyd -- Private lives and public history : on excavating the sexual past in queer oral history practice / Jason Ruiz -- Gender, desire, and feminism : a conversation between Dorothy Allison and Carmen Vázquez / Kelly Anderson -- Friendship -- Friendship, institutions, oral history / Michael David Franklin -- Gay teachers and students, oral history and queer kinship / Daniel Marshall -- Sharing queer authorities : collaborating for transgender Latina and gay Latino historical meanings / Horacio N. Roque Ramírez -- Politics -- Conversations with Stella, Los Angeles Daughters of Bilitis Pioneer / Marcia M. Gallo -- "You could argue that they control power" : politics and interviewing across sexualities / Martin Meeker -- Don't ask : discussing sexuality in the American military and the media / Steve Estes -- Thanks for the memories : a narrator asks an oral historian for validation / Eric C. Wat.