Table of Contents:
  • 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.