The Library of Congress welcomes butches and femmes at last, but only if they're lesbians.
The Lower East Side Librarian Library of Congress Subject Headings of the month for Month 12, December 17, 2012 are...
Tagged with gay cataloging mafia
Hypothetically speaking...butch and femme
Play along with a hypothetical situation, if you will.
If you happened to strike up a friendship with the Godfather of the Gay Cataloging Mafia who also happens to be a God (Cataloging) of SACO, and if he were willing to work with you to pitch butch and femme subject headings to the Library of Congress, what would you want those headings to be?
LCSH Week 12: Contributions from the Gay Cataloging Mafia, and I snicker a little at god's attributes
The Lower East Side Librarian Library of Congress Subject Headings of the Week for Week 12, March 23, 2011 are...
Snickering:
free:
of bears and femmes
Dear Gay Cataloging Mafia and other concerned parties:
The Lezbrian Yahoo! group is a talkin' about subject headings. Brenda J. Marston wonders why if "Bears (Gay culture)" has been adopted as a Library of Congress Subject Heading, why not "Butch," "Femme (Lesbian culture)," and "Butch and femme." Me, too!
I might argue for "Femme (Queer culture)" though, since the femmes whose zines I catalog use Queer almost exclusively over Lesbian. Brenda tells me that Cornell has a 653 for "Butch and femme (Sexual orientation)."
LCSH Week 31: of latex garments, stainless steel, and tariff on beef
This week on LCSH Watch
- Alaska Natives
- Latex garments—Erotic aspects
- Stainless steel
- Tariff on beef
Did YOU know the difference between splatter and slasher flicks?
Library of Congress Subject Heading weekly lists, weeks 48-50
Let me preface this installment of my subject heading analysis series by saying that I am very irritated that lcsh.info/search is gone, not to mention inconvenienced!
Includes subject headings under the categories:
You mean there weren't already SHs for these?
The end is nigh
What's hotter than a dozen cross references?
Good one, LC!
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From the Department of Something for Everyone
Everything Urban, but URBAN FICTION