Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers (74 page)

McConnell, Vicki

McDonald, Barbara

McGovern, George

McKay, Claude

Medical doctorss-50s treatments and

Medical journals, turn-of-the-century

Medical model, sexologists and

Meese, Edwin

Men
See
Gay men; Marriage to men

Mental health, minimalist definition of

Mental illnesss views on

Mentors, graduating from women’s colleges and

Metropolitan Community Church

Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival

Middle-class lesbians; butch/femme roles and; Depression and; 1800s; gay bars and; gay liberation movement and; harassment during McCarthy era; “kiki”; lesbian-feminists and; 1970s; 1980s changes; professional pursuits at turn of century and; racial movement and; sexologists and; slumming in Harlem in 1920s; social contacts

Midwest Women’s Festival

Milford-Haven, Marchioness Nadeja

Military service; dismissals from; lesbian-catching tactics and; lesbians in World War II and; witch hunts of the 1950s and

Milk, Harvey

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

Miller, Marilyn

Minority lesbians: butch/femme roles and; lesbian-feminists and; 1980s; transvestitism and

“Miss Ogilvy Finds Herself (Hall)

Mitchell, Alice

Moderations shift to

Monogamy: lesbian-feminists’ rejection of; 1980s return to

Moraga, Cherrie

Morality: homophobics and; lesbian “cures” and; New Right and; 1930s anti-lesbianism and; 1940s; pulp novels and

Moral literature

Mortimer, Lee

Moscone, George

Motherhoods acceptance of

Mothering skills, mass

Mount Holyoke

Movies, lesbian theme in

Mygatt, Tracy

Mythmaking, matriarchal

Nachman, Elana

Nathan, George Jean

National Black Feminist Organization

National Coalition of Black Lesbians and Gay Men

National Gay Task Force

National Organization of Women

National security, dismissals during McCarthy era and

National Women’s Agency

National Women’s Music Festival

National Women’s Political Caucus

Neff, Wanda Fraiken

Nestle, Joan

New Alliance for Gay Equality

New England Women’s Music Retreat

New Left

New Right

New Sex Therapy, The
(Kaplan)

Newspapers, publishing arrestees names in

Newton, Esther

New York City: 1920s drag balls and; 1930s, in; 1940s bar scene and; 1980s gay and lesbian liaisons and.
See also
Greenwich Village; Harlem

New York Lesbian Food Conspiracy

New York Lesbian Pride Rally

Nigger Heaven
(Van Vechten)

Nightwood
(Barnes)

Niles, Blair

Norma Trist; or Pure Carbon: A Story of the Inversion of the Sexes
(Carhart)

North American Conference of Homophile Organizations

Noyes, John

Oakgrove, Artemis

Oberlin Lesbian Society

Odd Girl Out

Older lesbians: class membership affiliations; 1980s

“Old gays”; homes for; 1980s

O’Leary, Jean

Olivia Records

O’Neill, William

On Our Backs

Oneida Community

O’Reilly, Lenora

Orlando
(Woolf)

Otis, Margaret

Outcast, The
(Weirauch)

Outing

Over the Hill
(Copper)

Painted Veils
(Huneker)

Paranoid schizophrenia

Parke, Joseph

Parker, Dorothy

Parker, Pat

Patriotism, working during Depression and

Patterson, June

Patton, Marion

Peck, Mary

Peiss, Kathy

Pension plans

Perry, Troy

Persecution, McCarthyism and

Personals ads, in porno magazines

Phelps, Johnnie

Physical education majorss

Pink Panther groups

Police harassment: butch/femme roles and; Daughters of Bilitis and; gay bars and

Political awareness

Political correctness: lesbian-feminists and; 1980s; sex and; women’s music and

Political goals, lesbian-feminist

Political influence

Political networks, underground

Poor White
(Anderson)

Popular magazines

Pornography: lesbian interest in; male versus female response to; male writers of; mistrust of; 1980s conservatism and; NOW and

Porter, Katherine Anne

Pound, Louise

Pratt, Caroline

Pride Institute

Prisons; butch/femme arrangements; lesbian slang and; romantic friendship and; turn-of-the-century

Professional women: early twentieth century; education and; establishing own professions; male preserves and; marriage of

Professional Women’s Network

Professors, role models for romantic friendships in

Psychiatric hospitalss

Psychoanalysis

Psychodrama, sexual

Psychopathia Sexualis
(Krafft-Ebing)

Psychosis

Public images, positive

Public opinion, romantic friendship and

Pulp novels

Queer Nation

Radical chic lesbians

Radicalesbians

Rainbeau Productions

Reagan, Ronald

Rebel lifestyle, heavy drinking and

Rebel sexuality, femmes in 1950s and

Reform work

Rent parties

Republicans, persecution by

Resource centers, lesbian-feminist communities and

Revere, Ann

Reynolds, Smith

Rich, Adrienne

Robertiello, Richard

Robinson, Mabel

Robinson, Victor

Role playing

Romantic friendship; attack on; homophobia of the 1920s and; as mental passion; metamorphosis of; nineteenth century; penal institutions and; public opinion and; women’s colleges and; working class and

Romo-Carmona, Mariana

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Rosse, Irving

Rothman, Ellen

Rubyfiuit Jungle
(Brown)

Rule, Jane

Russell, Bertrand

Sado-masochism, lesbian

Same-sex households

Samois

San Francisco: Daughters of Bilitis and; 1930s bar scene; 1940s

San Francisco Gay Pride Parade

Sang, Barbara

Sanger, Margaret

Sapho
(Daudet)

Save Our Children

Save Our Moral Ethics

Schulman, Sarah

Schwarz, Judith

Science fiction novels, women’s

Scientific Humanitarian Committee

Scorpion, The
(Weirauch)

Scudder, Vida

Self-actualization, in

Seminaries, female

Settlement houses

Sex circuses

Sexologists; attack on romantic friendship; early; feminism and; German; male homosexuals and; medical model and; middle-class women and; moral visions of; readership of; subculture creation and; working-class women and

Sexual conformity, post-World War II

Sexual conservatism

Sexual inversion

Sexuality; adventurousness and; affection versus; butch/femme roles and; committed relationships and; cultural feminists and; cultural socialization and; dangerous or antisocial; lesbian-feminists and; neuroses and; nineteenth century; 1920s liberalization; 1930s; 1960s permissiveness; 1970s; 1980s; radical feminists and; turn-of-the-century.
See also
Lesbian sex

Sexualizations

Sexual radicals

Sexual revolution: 1920s; 1960s; 1970s; sexual radicals and

Sexual violence

Shaw, Anna Howard

Shaw, Beverly

Simpson Whipple, Evangeline Marrs

Singer, Rochelle

Sin of Sins

Sister Gin
(Arnold)

Slogans, consciousness-raising and

Smith, Bessie

Smith, Mary Roset

Smith, Ruby Walker

Smith College

Socarides, Charles

Social attitudes, fiction as reflection of

Social constructionists

Social freedom, nineteenth-century transvestites and