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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)."

This week on LCSH Watch

• Alaska Natives
• Latex garments—Erotic aspects
• Stainless steel
• Tariff on beef

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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