My new Kindle book (Pieces for a History of Gay Studies) recounts my involvement during the mid-1970s in founding gay academic groups in which I was unusual in that I was not doing gay research. This changed and two articles published in 1979 (The art of gay insulting, Institutional elaboration of a quasi-ethnic community) are (to some chagrin on my part) my most often cited articles.I put together a series of books about roles and conceptions of those involved in same-sex sex between 1987 (Male Homosexuality in Central and South America) and 2002 (Pacific Homosexualities) culminating in "Homosexualities" (2000).My University of Toronto dissertation was a social history of ethnolinguistics/sociolinguistics. It was published in 1983, revised and expanded in 1994, and what I originally conceived as my dissertation, updated with accounts of groups and networks (American Sociolinguistics, 1998). With Keelung Hong I have written two critical accounts of Anglophone social science about Taiwan (Looking Through Taiwan). I also wrote a book on the Khmer society that erected Angkor Wat (,Angkor Thom, et al.), "Angkor Life."I am currently (not) working on two books: "Male Desire" and "Reading Sicily in English." I have lived in San Francisco since 1978, on (relatively) sunny Potrero hill since 1982, and have been writing about books, movies, and music on epinions since 2000.I welcome feedback on my writing: at som1950@hotmail.com.