Beyond Definition: New Writing from Gay and Lesbian San Francisco

by Marci Blackman (Editor), Susie Bright (Introduction), Trebor Healey (Editor)

Beyond Definition confronts questions of sexuality and identity in a collection of dynamic work by established and emerging writers from the San Francisco Bay Area. Urgent and significant issues are explored including coming out to one's parents, transgenderism and coping with the loss of a loved one to AIDS. Features work by Susie Bright, Michelle Tea, Alvin Orloff and more.

Genres: Nonfiction, LGBT, Queer, Lesbian

168 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 1994

Reviews

[Cheryl Klein · Rating 5 out of 5]

Published in 1994, this anthology of queer writing is both a fascinating artifact from a time when AIDS was necessarily a death sentence and many gay writers published under pseudonyms, and a totally-ahead-of-its-time/timeless collection (back when few people knew what "FTM" meant, there was apparently already a bit of a scene in SF).

My favorite pieces included Elissa Perry's empathic story of a bus ride gone bad, Trac Vu's prose poem about gum and oral sex, and Sparrow 13 LaughingWand's truthfully raw poem (and his name).

[Alvin · Rating 5 out of 5]

A amazingly varied collection of queer sassy-ness from the gay nineties.