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29 Conn. L. Rev. 561 (1996-1997)
Out Yet Unseen: A Racial Critique of Gay and Lesbian Legal Theory and Political Discourse

handle is hein.journals/conlr29 and id is 571 raw text is: CONNECTICUT LAW REVIEW VOLUME 29 WINTER 1997 NUMBER 2 Out Yet Unseen: A Racial Critique of Gay and Lesbian Legal Theory and Political Discourse DAMEN LENARw HuTCHINSON i'm clear about why i am and how i am-i cannot extri- cate the lesbian from my soul no more than i could the chicana-i have always been both.' I was mute, tongue-tied, burdened by shadows and silence. Now I speak and my burden is lightened lifted free? * BA, Universitv of Pennsylvania 1990; JD., Yale Law School, 1993; Law Clerk for Honorable Mary Johnson Love United States District Court, Southern District of New York; 1994-1996. Presently, Associate, Clear, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton. I would ILL to thank Hubert L. Allen, Robin D. Barnes, L Bennett Capers, Harlon L. Dalton, Bonnie Scott Jone, Teny Smith and James Q. Walker for their Insightful comments on earlier versions of this Article. I. Naomi Littlebear, Earth-Lover, Survivor, Afusiclan, in THIS BRIDGE CALLED MY BACK: RADICAL WariNGs BY WOMuN OF COLOR 157 (Cherde Moraga and Gloria Anzaldfa eds., 1981) [hereinafter THis BRInac CALLED MY BACK]. 2. Marion T. Riggs, Tongues Untied, in BROTIHER TO BROTHMR NEw VRITIGS BY BLACK GAY MEN 200,205 (Essex Hemphill ed., 1991) [hereinafter BROTHM TO BROTHER]. The original source of this excerpt is Riggs' film Tongues Untied. MAMtLON T. RIGGS, TONGUES U I ED (1987) (doc- umentary on black gay men) The film Tongues Untied presents poetry of several authors. Marion Riggs died on April 5, 1994, due to AIDS. Marion Riggs Dies, Film Maker Was 37, N.Y. TIMs, Apr. 6, 1994, at B9.

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