References

  1. Toby Marotta, The Politics of Homosexuality (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1981), 120
  2. Steven Dansky, John Knoebel, Kenneth Pitchford, "The Effemenist Manifesto," in We Are Everywhere: A Historical Sourcebook in Gay and Lesbian Politics, Mark Blasius and Shane Phelan, eds. (New York: Routledge, 1997), 435. The Effeminists took their name, and some of their theories, from Nick Benton and Jim Rankin, who developed the term in 1971 in their Berkeley-based The Effeminist newspaper. Steven F. Dansky, “The Effeminist Moment,” in Smash the Church, Smash the State, ed. Tommi Avicolli Mecca (San Francisco: City Lights Books, 2009), 213-4.
  3. Dansky, Knoebel, Pitchford, "The Effeminist Manifesto," 435 and 438.
  4. Ibid., 438; Kenneth Pitchford, personal interview, January 28, 2010.
  5. Dansky, Knoebel, Pitchford, "The Effemenist Manifesto," 436.
  6. Dansky, Knoebel, Pitchford, "The Effemenist Manifesto," 437; Kenneth Pitchford, email correspondence, March 6, 2010.
  7. "The Flaming Faggots," Gay Flames Pamphlet, no. 12.
  8. Kenneth Pitchford, email correspondence, March 19, 1970.
  9. Steve Dansky, "Hey Man," Gay Flames Pamphlet, no. 8. Gay Liberation Front (GLF) N.Y. Organizational File, Lesbian Herstory Archives, Brooklyn, NY
  10. Dansky, Knoebel, Pitchford, "The Effemenist Manifesto," 436-7.
  11. Karla Jay, Tales of a Lavender Menace (New York: Basic Books, 2000), 235; Dansky, “The Effeminist Moment,” 213.
  12. Martin Duberman, "Homosexual Literature," The New York Times, December 10, 1972, 28; jill johnston, quoted in Dansky, "The Effeminist Moment," 214.
  13. Ibid., 213