William L. Leap

William Leap

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William Leap’s career in public anthropology has included work with American Indian tribes (community organizing, language renewal, teaching retraining), engagements with language, sexuality, and HIV politics in the urban US and urban South Africa, studies of gay language and “gay men’s English” as local and global formations, and multiple projects (at AU, in DC, in the American Anthropological Association and in other public settings) designed to build alliances between dissident gendered and sexual voices. He is the founding co-editor of the Journal of Language and Sexuality. Since 1993, he has coordinated the annual AU Conference on Lavender Languages and Linguistics. He has published seven books and edited collections and numerous essays in language and sexuality studies. He is currently finishing the edits on his new book, "Language Before Stonewall." Not in residence, 2016-2017.

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Critical Sexuality Studies, Lavender Languages, and Everyday Life
Representative edition published 2024
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Language Before Stonewall
Representative edition published 2020
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Out in public
Representative edition published 2009
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Speaking in queer tongues
Representative edition published 2004
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Out in theory
Representative edition published 2002
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Introducing sociolinguistics
Representative edition published 2000
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Public Sex/Gay Space
Representative edition published 1999
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Introducing Sociolinguistics
Representative edition published 1999
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Out in the field
Representative edition published 1996
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Word's Out
Representative edition published 1996
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Beyond the Lavender Lexicon
Representative edition published 1996
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American Indian English
Representative edition published 1993
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Language renewal among American Indian tribes
Representative edition published 1982
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