gender and language

[Laurence Horn]

At 12:50 AM -0400 10/25/01, Suzanne Evans wrote:
>However, much depends on how one defines the subjects of one's study as
>gay(queer). We have to rely on speakers' self-identifications, yet as Zwicky
>points out in "Queerly Phrased", these are not always reliable. This is due,
>in part, to the continuum of sexual self-identification that encompasses not
>only gay/straight, but bisexual and many other shades of sexuality.
>Reliability is also influenced by differing applications of terminology
>(this seems, he suggests, to be a particular problem with the catch-all
>"bisexual").
>
On this last, see also Lynne Murphy's excellent article on "the
elusive bisexual" in the same (QP) anthology.

Larry