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The Notebooks That Emma Gave Me by Kady; Kady Van Deurs

Kady; Kady 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

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Women Together/Women Apart by Tirza True Latimer

Tirza True Latimer | Women Together/Women Apart | What does it mean to look like a lesbian? Though it remains impossible to conjure a definitive image that captures the breadth of this highly nuanced

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A Year Straight by Elena Azzoni

Elena Azzoni | A Year Straight | After having spent nearly her entire adult life dating women (and liking it), Elena Azzoni felt pretty secure in her sexual orientation: she’d even ju

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Adventures of the Mind by Natalie Clifford Barney

Natalie Clifford Barney | Adventures of the Mind | In this book, Barney explores her family tree, chronicles her friendships and associations through reprinted correspondence and recreated conversation

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Lesbian Crush Diaries by Natasha Holme

Natasha Holme | Lesbian Crush Diaries | Lesbian Crushes at School: A Diary on Growing Up Gay in the Eighties … In 1983 thirteen-year-old Natasha is in love with her French teacher, Miss Wi

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Flying by Kate Millett

Kate Millett | Flying | ‘In a kaleidoscopic, almost cinematic style, Kate Millett unreels her inner and outer life during one decisive year: the year after ‘Sexual Politics’

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Wild Heart: A Life by Suzanne Rodriguez

Suzanne Rodriguez | Wild Heart: A Life | Born in 1876, Natalie Barney-beautiful, charismatic, brilliant and wealthy-was expected to marry well and lead the conventional life of a privileged s

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Confessions Of A Failed Southern Lady by Florence King

Florence King | Confessions Of A Failed Southern Lady | ‘Granny worked so hard at my rearing. She was a frustrated ladysmith and I was her last chance. . . This is the story of my years on her anvil. Whethe

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A Two-Spirit Journey by Ma-Nee Chacaby

Ma-Nee Chacaby | A Two-Spirit Journey | A Two-Spirit Journey is Ma-Nee Chacaby’s extraordinary account of her life as an Ojibwa-Cree lesbian. From her early, often harrowing memories of life

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From Female To Male by Louis Sullivan

Louis Sullivan | From Female To Male | This is the story of a California journalist, born a woman in 1869, who passed as a man for thirty-six years, from 1900 – 1936. Sullivan concentrates