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- Toby Marotta, The Politics of Homosexuality (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1981), 120
- 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.
- Dansky, Knoebel, Pitchford, "The Effeminist Manifesto," 435 and 438.
- Ibid., 438; Kenneth Pitchford, personal interview, January 28, 2010.
- Dansky, Knoebel, Pitchford, "The Effemenist Manifesto," 436.
- Dansky, Knoebel, Pitchford, "The Effemenist Manifesto," 437; Kenneth Pitchford, email correspondence, March 6, 2010.
- "The Flaming Faggots," Gay Flames Pamphlet, no. 12.
- Kenneth Pitchford, email correspondence, March 19, 1970.
- Steve Dansky, "Hey Man," Gay Flames Pamphlet, no. 8. Gay Liberation Front (GLF) N.Y. Organizational File, Lesbian Herstory Archives, Brooklyn, NY
- Dansky, Knoebel, Pitchford, "The Effemenist Manifesto," 436-7.
- Karla Jay, Tales of a Lavender Menace (New York: Basic Books, 2000), 235; Dansky, “The Effeminist Moment,” 213.
- Martin Duberman, "Homosexual Literature," The New York Times, December 10, 1972, 28; jill johnston, quoted in Dansky, "The Effeminist Moment," 214.
- Ibid., 213