Last Look at the Lex

Abstract

The closing of The Lexington, San Francisco’s last lesbian bar, is discussed as part of a collection of essays that examine sexuality and gender in San Francisco at a moment when economic forces have changed the urban landscape.

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Gayle Salamon

Gayle Salamon, Ph.D., is associate professor of English and the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies at Princeton University. She is the author of Assuming a Body: Transgender and Rhetorics of Materiality (Columbia University Press, 2010) and is currently at work on two manuscripts, one entitled Painography: Metaphor and the Phenomenology of Chronic Pain, and a second analyzing the classroom murder of 15-year-old L. King.