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Macho Sluts: A Little Sister\u27s Classic
No full textThis new edition, part of Arsenal Pulp Press\u27 Little Sister\u27s Classics series resurrecting classics of LGBT literature, includes a new afterword by the author, and an introduction by Wendy Chapkis, a professor of sociology and women and gender studies at the University of Southern Maine in Portland.https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/facbooks/1704/thumbnail.jp
Diamante, Robert
Get PDFRobert Diamante is a photographer from an Italian America family from New Jersey. He also has a graduate degree in theology. At an early age, he began to doubt religious dogma. He came out as gay in 10th grade and stood up against homophobic taunting by successfully physically defending himself. He briefly had a girlfriend in high school who remains one of his best friends. He moved to NYC and attended Pratt University before transferring to the Portland School of Art (now MECA) where his interests in art and theology combined in a body of work based on Catholic iconography (those photos are now part of the Sampson Center LGBTQ collection). At the Portland School of Art he studied with Agnes Bushell and, through her, met gay author John Preston. Diamante did fact-finding on the Big Gay Book for Preston and photographed him for Flesh and the Word. Through Preston, he met and befriended porn star Scott O’Hara and became aware of and involved with the AIDS epidemic. In 1992 he began a charter member of the Gay Men’s Chorus in Portland, Maine (his photos of the Chorus are also donated to the collection). One of his early photo exhibitions was “Boyfriends/Girlfriends” with lesbian photographer Jen McDermott. After graduation, he started a photography business and stayed in Maine where he found other gay men who enjoyed such pleasures as camping and hunting. He also began traveling, first to India, Papua New Guinea, and Bali. He continued his studies at Bangor Theological Seminary where he received a graduate degree in 2010.
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Please cite as: Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer+ Collection, Jean Byers Sampson Center for Diversity in Maine, University of Southern Maine Libraries.
For more information about the Querying the Past: Maine LGBTQ Oral History Project, please contact Dr. Wendy Chapkis.https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/querying_ohproject/1060/thumbnail.jp
Productive Tensions: Ethnographic Engagement, Complexity, and Contradiction
No full textThis article discusses engagement, complexity, and contradiction as resources for, rather than simply impediments to, good research. Drawing on examples from her own work of the past three decades on body image, commercial sex, and the medical use of marijuana, the author examines the benefits of, as well as some of the challenges presented by, this approach to scholarly practice
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Fortuna, Stan
No full textThe audio of the interview and the transcript are available to listen to and view by request on-site only in Special Collections.
Stan Fortuna was born in Rochester, New Hampshire. He left home at 18 after a challenging childhood where he experienced abuse and homophobia. Stan moved to Portland where he became friends with a group of gay and lesbian activists. They lived and worked together in Portland in the 70s. He attended the first Maine Gay Symposium in Orono and after that worked to form Lambda Of Brunswick, the student group at USM, Gay People’s Alliance the Maine Gay Task Force, Maine Gay Task Force Newsletter and Mainely Gay, thought to be Maine’s first gay publication. He worked for Maine Medical Center for over a decade where he witnessed up close some of the horrors of the AIDS crisis. Stan is currently working on a radio project in Portland, Maine called OUT Cast that tells stories about Maine\u27s LGBTQ history.
You can listen to OUT cast HERE.
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Please cite as: Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer+ Collection, Jean Byers Sampson Center for Diversity in Maine, University of Southern Maine Libraries.
For more information about the Querying the Past: Maine LGBTQ Oral History Project, please contact Dr. Wendy Chapkis.https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/querying_ohproject/1047/thumbnail.jp
Labbe, Roland
Get PDFRoland Labbe discusses growing up in Maine in Millinocket, Winterport, and Lewiston, before moving to Worcester, MA at 14 with an older lover. He also talks about his time as a young man in New York City; that made him realize that Portland needed a gay bar which he opened in 1967: “Roland’s Tavern” on Forest Ave. He shares stories about challenges he faced in opening Portland’s first gay bar, including licensing struggles with the city of Portland and hostility from police and some of the public. He discusses his tremendously supportive family, with his mother and siblings often working the bar. The interview includes his accounts of being seriously gay bashed on more than one occasion and his determination to see each perpetrator held legally accountable. Labbe also describes opening a discotheque in Portland, the Phoenix Bar, in 1977. He describes both bars being lost to fire (one due to arson, the other accidental). He shares his involvement in the AIDS epidemic and his experiences of loss and grief. Labbe talks about being selected as Grand Marshall for Pride Portland in 2020 and receiving the Icon Award.
Please cite as: Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer+ Collection, Jean Byers Sampson Center for Diversity in Maine, University of Southern Maine Libraries. For more information about the Querying the Past: Maine LGBTQ Oral History Project, please contact Dr. Wendy Chapkis.https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/querying_ohproject/1090/thumbnail.jp
MacNaughton, Daniel
Get PDFDan MacNaughton was born in 1955 in Bangor, Maine, and raised in Hampden, Maine with his mother, father, and older brother. He came out as gay in high school with supportive teachers and classmates who were either supportive or indifferent. However, he had deeply internalized homophobic attitudes and believed that being gay meant he had very limited employment options. In college at the University of Maine Orono, MacNaughton became active in the newly formed Wilde Stein student group where he became the first Vice-Chair of the club, met Sturgis Haskins, and became involved in educational efforts on campus. He also participated in the first Maine Gay Symposium. He later attended the College of the Atlantic for a year and started the Down East Gay Alliance. He left college to work in the boating industry, first at the Wooden Boat Magazine in Boston and later at boatyards in Maine and South Carolina. He discusses the gay scene in Boston and his eventual decision to move back to Maine, to work in boatyards. MacNaughton speaks about his experience living outside of a gay context and his ability, as a masculine-presenting gay man, to create friendships and work relationships across differences of sexual orientation.
Please cite as: Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer+ Collection, Jean Byers Sampson Center for Diversity in Maine, University of Southern Maine Libraries. For more information about the Querying the Past: Maine LGBTQ Oral History Project, please contact Dr. Wendy Chapkis.https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/querying_ohproject/1094/thumbnail.jp
Crewe, Dan
Get PDFDescription: Dan Crewe is an 84 year old gay man originally from New Jersey. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1957. Crewe was a member of the United States Air Force for four years, after which he moved to New York City and began a lucrative career in the music industry in production and publishing. He then moved to Los Angeles, California where he met his then wife, the musician Cindy (now Cyd) Bullens, and they had two daughters. The family eventually moved to Maine, where Crewe opened Gateway Mastering Studios and continued working in music. During this time, his 10 year old daughter was diagnosed with Hodgkins Disease. She passed away shortly after that. After her death, Crewe became very involved in local causes and philanthropy, and has been especially involved in supporting Breakwater School in Portland. The Jessie Bullens-Crewe Foundation, named in honor of his daughter, donated 21 acres to Breakwater school for youth education and supports the Maine Children\u27s Cancer Program. The Bob Crewe Foundation, named after his brother, supports both arts and music initiatives as well as organizations that benefit LGBTQ communities.
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Please cite as: Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer+ Collection, Jean Byers Sampson Center for Diversity in Maine, University of Southern Maine Libraries.
For more information about the Querying the Past: Maine LGBTQ Oral History Project, please contact Dr. Wendy Chapkis.https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/querying_ohproject/1044/thumbnail.jp
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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