Stephen O. Murray

My new Kindle book (Pieces for a History of Gay Studies) recounts my involvement during the mid-1970s in founding gay academic groups in which I was unusual in that I was not doing gay research. This changed and two articles published in 1979 (The art of gay insulting, Institutional elaboration of a quasi-ethnic community) are (to some chagrin on my part) my most often cited articles.

I put together a series of books about roles and conceptions of those involved in same-sex sex between 1987 (Male Homosexuality in Central and South America) and 2002 (Pacific Homosexualities) culminating in "Homosexualities" (2000).

My University of Toronto dissertation was a social history of ethnolinguistics/sociolinguistics. It was published in 1983, revised and expanded in 1994, and what I originally conceived as my dissertation, updated with accounts of groups and networks (American Sociolinguistics, 1998). With Keelung Hong I have written two critical accounts of Anglophone social science about Taiwan (Looking Through Taiwan). I also wrote a book on the Khmer society that erected Angkor Wat (,Angkor Thom, et al.), "Angkor Life."

I am currently (not) working on two books: "Male Desire" and "Reading Sicily in English." I have lived in San Francisco since 1978, on (relatively) sunny Potrero hill since 1982, and have been writing about books, movies, and music on epinions since 2000.

I welcome feedback on my writing: at som1950@hotmail.com.