Dyke life : [electronic resource] from growing up to growing old, a celebration of the lesbian experience / edited by Karla Jay.

Includes bibliographical references.

Are we family? Lesbians and families of origin / Laura S. Brown -- An afternoon with my if-there-were-a-laws / Judy MacLean -- At home / Terri de la Peña -- A new political twist / Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon -- Finding a "word for myself": themes in lesbian coming-out stories / Jessica F. Morris ... [et al.] -- What I should have said / Deborah Perkins -- At the crossroads: lesbian youth / Joyce Hunter -- GWF ISO / Kelly Jo Woodside -- Lesbian baby boomers at midlife / Esther D. Rothblum ... [et al.] -- It is a large future / Lauren Crux -- The start of something big / Paula Martinac -- Circles and rings: a woman's ritual / Sandra Butler -- We never promised you role models / Jeanne Adleman -- RV life begins at seventy / Shevy Healey

Lesbian couples / Beverly A. Greene -- About being an old lesbian in love / Mary Meigs -- Breaking up / Tee A. Corinne -- Bridge / Jean Swallow -- Procrasti-dating / Jacqueline Lapidus -- Lesbian marriage ceremonies: I do / Kitty Tsui -- June brides / E.J. Graff -- Our relationships and their laws / Ruthann Robson -- What's race got to do with it? / Paula Ross -- Creating lesbian families / Heather Conrad and Kate Colwell -- To mother or not to mother / Sylvia Blackstone -- Our children and their laws / Ruthann Robson -- Lesbian parenting: radical or retrograde? / Sondra Segal-Sklar -- Pride and prejudice / Janet Linder -- Mother of Stephen / Louise G. Whitney -- Public schools/private lives / Beth Rosen -- Clit notes / Marny Hall -- Psychic armor / Judith P. Stelboum -- Body piercing / Yemaya KauriAlecto -- Confessions of a lesbian vampire / Amanda Kovattana -- My first dildo / Slick Harris

Safer sex / Marcia Munson -- My first lover / Betty Rose Dudley -- Guessing games / Kath Weston -- WYSIWYG (what you see isn't what you get) / Rini Das -- Butch mothers, femme bull dykes: dismantling our own stereotypes / JoAnn Loulan -- Double trouble / Lesléa Newman -- Black lace hairbow / Greta Gaard -- Lesbians in corporate America / Maria De La O -- Tales of a suburban columnist / Amanda Kovattana -- She tickles with a hammer / Donna Allegra -- Something about pride / Shelley Anderson -- Outing and the politics of the closet / Victoria A. Brownworth -- "Oy veh, the judge on the bench is a dyke!" / Paula J. Hepner -- Something snapped / Lee Lynch -- San Francisco spice rack / Anna Livia -- Health care issues / Karen F. Kerner -- After the first visit / Margaret Robison

Another story / Victoria A. Brownworth -- A letter from Anita / Kitty Tsui -- Outlaws and addicts: lesbians and the recovery movement / Jane Futcher -- Who cares? Lesbians as caregivers / Jeannine DeLombard -- The dog, the cat, and the activist / Emily Rosenberg.