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Homomasculinity:
Framing Keywords of Queer Popular Culture

Written January-March 2005, this essay was published,
and an abstract read by the author, at the Queer Key-
words Conference, “The(e)ories: Advanced Seminars
for Queer Research” Series, University College Dublin,
Ireland, April 15, 2005.
I. Author’s Eyewitness Historical-Context Introduction
written October 2, 2007
II. The complete essay as published at the Queer
Keywords Conference, “The(e)ories: Advanced
Seminars for Queer Research” Series, University
College of Dublin, Ireland, April 2005, which invited
“the coiners of various homo-words to reflect on their
neologisms, their cultural and societal significance,
origins, contexts, political agendas, and so forth.”
III. Eyewitness Illustrations

I. Author’s Eyewitness Historical-Context written October 2, 2007

Homo-Linguistics, Queer Identity, and
Framing Homosexuality as a Religion

“You keep the language alive, you keep all of this alive.”
— Loretta Kelsey, “the last person on Earth fluent in Elem Pomo,
an 8,000-year-old Pomo Tribe language once spoken North of San
Francisco”

“Language is not just a monument to knowledge, it’s a monument to
identity.” — Leanne Hinton, Professor Emeritus, UC Berkeley, docu-
menting Elem Pomo with Loretta Kelsey

— Kevin Fagan, “Only Living Elem Pomo Speaker Teaches So She
Won’t Be the Last,” San Francisco Chronicle, SFGate.com, September
30, 2007

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