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The Pox Lover by Anne-christine d’Adesky

Anne-christine d’Adesky | The Pox Lover | The Pox Lover is a personal history of the turbulent 1990s in New York City and Paris by a pioneering American AIDS journalist, lesbian activist, and

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The Remedy by Zena Sharman

Zena Sharman | The Remedy | ‘To remedy means to heal, to cure, to set right, to make reparations. The Remedy invites writers and readers to imagine what we need to create healthy

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A Studio of One’s Own by Ann Stokes

Ann Stokes | A Studio of One’s Own | The story of how a group of Lesbians planned and built a studio on a New Hampshire hillside and made it available for the use of creative women.

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The Life And Death of Radclyffe Hall by Una Vincenzo; Lady Troubridge Una

Una Vincenzo; Lady Troubridge Una | The Life And Death of Radclyffe Hall | Radclyffe Hall was one of the most preeminent women writers in the first half of the 20th century. Hall was an out lesbian, known for her high profile

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Baby Precious Always Shines by Kay Turner

Kay Turner | Baby Precious Always Shines | Off and on, during the entire period they were together, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas wrote each other little love notes. Calling her ‘wifey’ an

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Before the Rain by Luisita Lo?pez Torregrosa

Luisita Lo?pez Torregrosa | Before the Rain | A friendship between two journalists covering the Philippines Revolution of 1986 deepens into a passionate, far-flung love affair in this serenely cap

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Memoirs of an Old Dyke by Jinx Beers

Jinx Beers | Memoirs of an Old Dyke | Born in a dysfunctional lower middle class family in the middle of the ‘big’ depression, no one could have predicted that Jinx Beers would be a pionee

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Gypsy, A Memoir by Gypsy Rose Lee

Gypsy Rose Lee | Gypsy, A Memoir | Gypsy: A Memoir is a 1957 autobiography of renowned striptease artist Gypsy Rose Lee, which inspired the Broadway musical Gypsy: A Musical Fable and t

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The Fact of a Body by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich

Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich | The Fact of a Body | Bustle’s 20 Best Non-Fiction Books for MayEntertainment Weekly Books You Have to Read in MayReal Simple’s Best New Books to Read in May “A True Crime

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The Notebooks That Emma Gave Me by Kay Van Deurs

Kay Van Deurs | The Notebooks That Emma Gave Me | Kay Van Deurs has shared with us her journal and various letters by and to her. They add up to an interesting autobiographical portrait that captures