sentences:  It was proposed to me early in 1991 by Philip Rappaport, who was working at the time as an acquisitions editor at Gordon and Breach and who was looking for ways to make his job more interesting—specifically by taking account of emerging work in lesbian and gay studies.Philip approached me about the possibility of starting an academic journal, and although I thought it was a terrific idea, I didn’t feel that I could take on such an ambitious project.But I did mention Philip’s proposal, some time later, to Carolyn Dinshaw, whom I had recently met, and she expressed immediate enthusiasm for it.