I also wanted to make sure that a diversity of voices was represented in terms of gender. The texts that did those things rose to the top of the pile.
For that, my criteria were: the text had to be rich enough and accessible enough on its own that somebody could read and appreciate it without a lot of background-texts that had some kind of a story, texts that were vivid, texts that were engaging and texts that were surprising. Then came the hard part: narrowing down what was going into the book. On the other hand, I considered anything that had to do with the broad picture of Jews and Jewish culture, and that included texts written by Jews and texts written about Jews. It also includes moving between genders, across genders and outside of gender, and it includes romantic, erotic, sexual encounters or expression between people of the same sex. The first stage was, “Would I consider the text for inclusion in the book?” To qualify, it had to fit somewhere in the intersection of everything relating to LGBTQ identity, including gender and sexuality.
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