For some men, the leap into gayhood was the best thing that ever happened to their lives. For others, they've leaped into a whirlpool of pain, anguish, sorrow and despair.

In order to examine this multivalenced articulation with regard to women's religious reverence and cultural practice and explore its many meanings especially as it serves as a site for women's commentary on diasporic identity and community, a range of ideas must be set forth.

The structural anthropologist urges us to ignore the orthodox who labor so patiently trying to eliminate the apocryphal variants from the one true text.

Ironically, the successful conviction on the part of Columbia's graduate students to preserve for posterity what I believe is perhaps the most thorough-going and most painlessly digested summary of economic-thought developments has never had Professor Mitchell's backing, and before his death Mitchell disclaimed any responsibility for errors that might have slipped into the quick-handed note taker's record since Mitchell had not even read what must have become the treasured possession of many a mature intellect among the large number of his students from both this country and abroad.