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acknowledgments As we wrote in our introduction, working on this project has been both a labor of love and a labor of sorrow: love, because of the quality of work that Allan Bérubé produced and the opportunity this volume provides to have it accessible to readers, and sorrow, because we wish more than anything that Allan was still alive and could compile it himself. We completed this book with the help of many others who valued Allan Bérubé’s life and work. Waverly Lowell, our fellow trustee of Allan’s literary estate, provided important guidance in making the decision about where to donate the Bérubé Papers. Rebekah Kim, the archivist of the glbt Historical Society in San Francisco, where his papers have been deposited, provided critical aid in transferring the materials. She also helped us navigate the unprocessed collection as we looked for source materials that allowed us to write the introduction, and she graciously scanned the illustrations for us. We thank her, Paul Boneberg, Joey Plaster, and everyone else at the historical society for their commitment to preserving Allan’s work and legacy. We are deeply grateful to Annette Bérubé, Allan’s sister, who assisted us in multiple ways. She answered innumerable questions that we posed to her and cheered our work along, even as she was dealing with the practical demands of settling Allan’s estate and the emotional toll of losing him unexpectedly. Many people responded generously to our requests for phone interviews, email communication, and letters so that we could fill out the contours of Allan’s life and locate some of his hard-to-find writings. We especially want to thank Sabrina Artel, Jim Baxter, Zachary Blair, Nan Boyd, David Gibson, Bert Hansen, Wayne Hoffman, Amber Hollibaugh, Jonathan Ned Katz, Ian Lekus, Katherine Marino, Mimi McGurl, Peter Nardi, John Nelson, Gayle Rubin, Nancy Stoller, and Allan Troxler for the assistance they provided and the information they shared with us. We received insightful and helpful readings of a draft of the introduction from Marcia Gallo, Bert Hansen, Jonathan Ned Katz, Ilene Levitt, Peter Nardi, and Nancy Stoller. We also benefited enormously from the comments on the entire collection that Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy and Leisa Meyer provided us. Everyone at the University of North Carolina Press has been a joy to work with. Their enthusiasm for the project has been boundless, and their support unstinting. We especially appreciate all that Kate Torrey has done to • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 322 : acknowledgments bring this book to completion. From our first discussion of it with her when the volume was just an idea, through an initial proposal and a table of contents , through final drafts and the full manuscript, she has provided encouragement , confidence, and smart suggestions. Others at the Press, including Dino Battista, Ron Maner, Rachel Surles, and Stephanie Wenzel greatly eased the publication process. We were fortunate to have the intellectual space in which to undertake this project during our 2009–10 sabbatical leaves. John D’Emilio acknowledges the generous support of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago; much of the work of this volume was done while a fellow at its Institute for the Humanities. Estelle Freedman thanks the American Council of Learned Societies and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, which provided the ideal setting for digressing from other writing tasks in order to honor Allan ’s memory. Finally, our respective life partners, Jim Oleson and Susan Krieger, have given us the emotional and intellectual support that sustained our work on this book, just as each of them has done for each of us over the past three decades . We thank them, with love, for their insights and their understanding. ...

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