ELIZABETH MORRISH is Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at Nottingham Trent University, UK. Her research interests lie in the area of language and sexual identity. She is on the organizing committee of the annual Lavender Languages and Linguistics series of conferences.HELEN SAUNTSON is a Lecturer in English Language at Birmingham University, UK. Her main teaching and research interests are in the areas of discourse analysis, language, gender and sexuality and language in education. She is co-editor of Language, Sexualities and Desires: Cross-Cultural Perspectives

• Acknowledgements Introduction Examining Lesbian Conversations as Discourses of Identity and Resistance Analysing Evaluation in Coming Out Narratives The Language of Shame, Risk and Concealment Discourse and Identity in a Corpus of Lesbian Erotica Sexual identity and Gender: Discursive Constructions of 'Butch' and 'Femme' in Film Camp Codes and Subtle Outing: How the British Broadsheet Press Learned Gay Slang Conclusion References Index

ELIZABETH MORRISH is Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at Nottingham Trent University, UK. Her research interests lie in the area of language and sexual identity. She is on the organizing committee of the annual Lavender Languages and Linguistics series of conferences.HELEN SAUNTSON is a Lecturer in English Language at Birmingham University, UK. Her main teaching and research interests are in the areas of discourse analysis, language, gender and sexuality and language in education. She is co-editor of Language, Sexualities and Desires: Cross-Cultural Perspectives

• Acknowledgements Introduction Examining Lesbian Conversations as Discourses of Identity and Resistance Analysing Evaluation in Coming Out Narratives The Language of Shame, Risk and Concealment Discourse and Identity in a Corpus of Lesbian Erotica Sexual identity and Gender: Discursive Constructions of 'Butch' and 'Femme' in Film Camp Codes and Subtle Outing: How the British Broadsheet Press Learned Gay Slang Conclusion References Index

ELIZABETH MORRISH is Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at Nottingham Trent University, UK. Her research interests lie in the area of language and sexual identity. She is on the organizing committee of the annual Lavender Languages and Linguistics series of conferences.HELEN SAUNTSON is a Lecturer in English Language at Birmingham University, UK. Her main teaching and research interests are in the areas of discourse analysis, language, gender and sexuality and language in education. She is co-editor of Language, Sexualities and Desires: Cross-Cultural Perspectives

• Acknowledgements Introduction Examining Lesbian Conversations as Discourses of Identity and Resistance Analysing Evaluation in Coming Out Narratives The Language of Shame, Risk and Concealment Discourse and Identity in a Corpus of Lesbian Erotica Sexual identity and Gender: Discursive Constructions of 'Butch' and 'Femme' in Film Camp Codes and Subtle Outing: How the British Broadsheet Press Learned Gay Slang Conclusion References Index