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0 1995 OPA (Overseas Publishers Association) Amsterdam B.V. Published under license by Gordon and Brrarh Scienre Publishers SA Printed in the United States of America 610: II JOURNAL OF LESBIAN 16AY STUDIES ship, homosexuality in rural areas was far from my mind. Tired of reading studies of âgay peopleâ top-heavy with white, male college students, I hoped that my seven yearsâ residence in the city would provide the contacts necessary to create a study that attended to racial, ethnic, and class relations. I selected San Francisco not as a field site that could represent all âgay people,â but rather for its internationally unique reputation as a gay city. Armed with anecdotal evidence about gay migration patterns to the Bay Area, I expected to encounter lesbians and gay men who had begun their lives in many parts of the country. At the time I felt such a geographical distribution might compensate for the widespread tendency to interpret every âcommunity studyâ as a study of âgay people in the United States.â In 1992 I was invited to participate in a small working conference on rural women and feminist issues. âI didnât know you worked on rural women,â a colleague commented
GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies – Duke University Press
Published: Jan 1, 1995
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