Beyond definition : new writing from gay and lesbian San Francisco / introduction by Susie Bright ; edited by Marci Blackman and Trebor Healey.

Indio / Al Lujan -- A kiss / Donna M. Lane -- A first kiss / Ian Signer -- PreDahmer / Trac Vu -- Notes from a cocoon / David Harrison -- No telling / Tede Matthews -- Coming out dream series / Indigo Chih-lien Som -- Yo Yo / Angela Garica -- Boston to New York: trees gone swamp / Tiffany M. Higgins -- Lucky in love / Mabel Maney -- Soup d'J-Yours / Maggy Merrick -- If you leave a woman flowers you'll probably scare her away / Michelletea -- Smothered with bother / Janell Moon -- Two freaks in a mean god's sweaty fist / Sparrow 13 laughing Wand -- Nightlight / Christian Huygen -- Angelina / Stephanie Rosenbaum -- Survival / Donna M. Lane -- Brushes with barbers / Robin White -- The rescue / Lucy Jane Bledsoe -- First dive / Christy Shepard -- When the Eastern Goddess Of Light told PG&E to fuck off / Marci Blackman -- Our Lady Of Fresh Produce / Trebor Healey -- Early solstice (Diva in the dark) / Dawn of Aquarius -- Long lost love / Christine Beatty -- Breaking / Judith Fauconnier -- I'm a lot more stable than I used to be / Ali Liebegott -- Sex with the damned / Merle Tofer -- excerpt from 'Penetration shame two: history' / Keith Hennessy -- Altitude / Michael Johnstone -- A prince of love in every way / Brian Bouldrey -- AIDS death #54,911 / Robert Kaplan -- Garden / Edward Wolf -- The only one in the room / Wayne T. Corbitt -- Erasing names / Suzanne Sherman -- The holy war / Nancy Boutilier -- Queer queer? Queer! / Timothy Buttercup -- When straight men touch / Lewis DeSimone -- August 31, 1986 / Richard Loranger -- Bussing / Elissa Perry -- An apocalyptic update on the coat of many colors / Horehound Stillpoint -- On a city bus / Jonathan Bracker -- The wind comes up at dawn / Toby Bielawski -- Do iguanas have forked tongues? / S. F. Jane -- My perfect androgyne / Trebor Healey --Mr. Larry, Hairdresser Extraordinaire of Mr. Larry's beauty boutique since 1962, asks "Whither gay lib?" / Alvin Orloff -- Stardust memories / Bambi Lake -- From Kite Hill we look down at the Castro / Simon Sheppard -- Let's kic

Published in 1994, this anthology of queer writing is both a fascinating artifact from a time when AIDS was necessarily a death sentence and many gay writers published under pseudonyms, and a totally ahead of its time/timeless collection (back when few people knew what "FTM" meant, there was apparently already a bit of a scene in San Francisco). "www.powells.com"