Divine reader on language, gender and sexuality ... Livia and Hall have done a worhtwhile job by selecting the articles and presenting them in a well-structured collection of queer writing ... On the whole I think that this collection is highly recommendable. It fills a gap in the literature on the market on gender studies, is accessible and should be inviting to all kinds of readers, queer or straight or somewhere in between.

• Anna Livia and Kira Hall, Editors: Introduction Part 1: LAVENDER LEXICALITY Arnold Zwicky, Stanford University and Ohio State University: Two Lavender Issues for Linguists M. Lynne Murphy: The Elusive Bisexual: Social Categorization and Lexico-Semantic Change Randy P. Conner, University of Texas: Les Molles et les chausses: Mapping the Isle of Hermaphrodites in Pre-Modern France Ian Lucas: The Color of His Eyes: Polari and the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence James Valentine: Pots and Pans: Identification of Queer Japanese in Terms of Discrimination Michael J. Sweet: Talking about Feygelekh: A Queer Male Representation in Jewish American Speech Diane Watt, University of Aberystwyth, Wales: Read My Lips: Clypping and Kyssing in the 16th Century Marie-Jo Bonnet, Paris France: Sappho, or the Importance of Culture in the Language of Love Mala Kleinfeld and Noni Warner: Lexical Variation in the Deaf Community Relating to Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Signs Lynne Murphy, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa: The Elusive "Bisexual" Part 2: QUEERSPEAK Rusty Barrett, University of Texas at Austin: The Homo-Genius Community Elizabeth Morrish, Nottingham Trent University: "Falling Short of God's Ideal": Public Discourse about Lesbians and Gays Jennifer Coates and Mary Ellen Jordan, Roehampton Institute and Melbourne University: Que(e)rying Friendship: Discourses of Resistance and the Construction of Gendered Subjectivity Robin M. Queen: "I Don't Speak Spritch": Locating Lesbian Language Kathleen M. Wood: Narrative Iconicity in Electronic-Mail, Lesbian Coming- Out Stories A. C. Liang: The Creation of Coherence in Coming-Out Stories William Leap, American University: Performative Effect in Three Gay English Texts James Armstrong, State University of New York, Plattsburgh: Homophobic Slang as Coercive Discourse Among College Students Tina Neumann, Gallaudet University: Deaf Identity, Lesbian Identity: Intersections in a Life Narrative Birch Moonwomon-Baird, Ohio State University: Toward the Study of Lesbian Speech Part 3: LINGUISTIC GENDER-BENDING Anna Livia: Disloyal to Masculinity: Linguistic Gender and Liminal Identity in French Bruce Bagemihl, University of British Colombia, Canada: Surrogate Phonology and Transsexual Faggotry Genevieve Pastre, Publisher, les Octaviennes, France: Linguistic Gender Play amoung French Gays and Lesbians Janet Shibamoto Smith, University of California at Davis: The Gendering of the Gay Male Sex Class in Japan Rudolf Gaudio, Stanford University: Not Talking Straight in Hausa Kira Hall, University of California at Berkeley: Go Suck Your Husband's Sugarcane: Hijras and the Use of Sexual Insult