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The Wild Good is a multidimensional portrait of lesbian love presented through forty‑five text pieces arranged in five sections. The editor, Beatrix Gates, weaves together friendship, family, body, spirit, community legacy, and romantic and sexual expressions of love.
The volume features writings by celebrated figures such as Dorothy Allison, Chrystos, Jewelle Gomez, and Audre Lorde, alongside emerging voices like Shay Youngblood, Eileen Myles, Lisa Kron, and Gale Jackson. Thirty‑five duotone photographs by renowned lesbian photographers and filmmakers—Margaret Randall, Luz Maria Gordillo, Barbara Hammer, Shu Lea Cheang, Zoe Leonard, and others—provide a moving visual commentary that ranges from intimate landscapes to portraiture and erotic still‑lifes.
The collection serves as a rich, testimony of lesbian experience that blends textual and visual storytelling to capture the scope and power of community and love.
First publish date: 1996
Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction/Lesbian Fiction
Authors: Bea Gates
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