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	FEATURED WRITER	Issue 13 • Spring 2005

Photograph by Phyllis Irwin

Lillian Faderman

The daughter of an immigrant Jewish garment worker whose family perished in the Holocaust, Lillian Faderman dreamed of being an actress. Instead she worked her way through college by posing for nude photographs and stripping in burlesque clubs. She discovered that her deepest erotic and emotional connections were to women. Today, she is a groundbreaking scholar of gay and lesbian studies, author of numerous books on subjects as diverse as 17th-century lesbian literature to the Hmong refugees of Laos, and the recipient of a host of awards such as the 2004 Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement and the 2002 Founders Distinguished Senior Scholar Award.

Prose by Lillian Faderman:

FICTION

Patrick Roscoe
Compromise

Two men left with a beautiful stain upon their silence.

David Pratt
All the Young Boys Love Alice

If only the world could have been that perfect, impossible fiction.

Valerie Frankel
Dick and Jane Grow Up

Yellow shorts, frilly dresses, and pin curls no more.

Dallas Angguish
Lord Alice

In a dark room waits a pale dandy with all the secrets to life.

Morteza Baharloo
From The Quince Seed Potion

The beginning of a shimmering saga of devotion and love, violence and humiliation.

Michelle Auerbach
Divination

Here, the slippery shape of language, in a letter, a map, a tongue, a body.

DRAMA

		Kim Yaged Vessels

How would you describe yourself? Poetic or subordinate? Brave or complacent? What if it's Germany, 1944? Are you a bitch or a whore? Is she your lover, friend, sister, acquaintance, colleague, or sin? Lesbians in the Holocaust -- Who would you be?

SUBMIT

Unfortunately, Lodestar Quarterly is no longer accepting submissions. Thank you for your interest and good luck in placing your manuscripts elsewhere.