The Thirteenth International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, “Negotiating Lesbian/ Homosocial Identity in Cross-Cultural Perspective,” will be held in Mexico City from July 28th to August 5th, 1993. Among the issues to be addressed will be the use of the words “homosexual” and “lesbian,” and the impact of the gay liberation movement on lesbians both in the South and North America.. Papers are welcome from students, faculty, and community activists. For further information contact Sask~eringa, Institute of Social Studies, P.O. Box 90733, 2509 LS The Hague, The Netherlands.
Gordon and Breach Publishers announces the release of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, with the first issue scheduled for June 1993. The journal will provide a forum for new work in the expanding interdisciplinary field of lesbian and gay studies. Its goal is to publish scholarship, criticism, and commentary that will bring a queer perspective to bear on any and all topics touching on sex and sexuality. Manuscripts can be sent to either Carolyn Dinshaw, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, or to David M. Halperin, 14N-432, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02139. To reserve a free sample copy of GLQ, please contact Philip Rappaport, Gordon and Breach Publishers, P.O. Box 786 Cooper Station, N.Y., N.Y. 10276