Category: Award Winner

Posted in Award Winner YA Fiction (Young Adult)

Rage by Julie Anne Peters

Julie Anne Peters | Rage | A National Book Award Finalist offers an intense portrait of an abusive relationship.Johanna is steadfast, patient, reliable; the go-to girl, the one

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Award Winner Grier Rated

La Bâtarde by Violette Leduc

Violette Leduc | La Bâtarde | An obsessive and revealing self-portrait of a remarkable woman humiliated by the circumstances of her birth and by her physical appearance, La Batarde

Posted in Award Winner LGBT Studies/Social Sciences

You Can Tell Just By Looking – And 20 Other Myths About Lgbt Life And People by Michael Bronski; Ann Pellegrini; Michael Amico

Michael Bronski; Ann Pellegrini; Michael Amico | You Can Tell Just By Looking – And 20 Other Myths About Lgbt Life And People | Breaks down the most commonly held misconceptions about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people and their lives. ‘You Can Tell Just by Looking’

Posted in Award Winner Fiction

Three Lives (Dover Thrift Editions) by Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein | Three Lives (Dover Thrift Editions) | Gertrude Stein, as a college student at Radcliffe and a medical student at Johns Hopkins Medical School, was a privileged woman, but she was surrounde

Posted in Award Winner Fiction

Rat Bohemia by Sarah Schulman

Sarah Schulman | Rat Bohemia | Rat Bohemia won the Ferro-Grumley Award for Lesbian Fiction, and was named one of the ‘100 Best Gay and Lesbian Novels of All Time’ by the Publishing

Posted in Award Winner YA Fiction (Young Adult)

Hard Love by Ellen Wittlinger

Ellen Wittlinger | Hard Love | John Galardi is a loner, unable to express his feelings except in the pages of his zine, ‘Bananafish.’ He finds inspiration in another zine, ‘Escape V

Posted in Award Winner Checklist by Marion Zimmer Bradley Fiction Grier Rated Pulp

The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall

Radclyffe Hall | The Well of Loneliness | First published in 1928, this timeless portrayal of lesbian love is now a classic. The thinly disguised story of Hall’s own life, it was banned outrig

Posted in Award Winner YA Fiction (Young Adult)

Keeping You A Secret by Julie Anne Peters

Julie Anne Peters | Keeping You A Secret | With a steady boyfriend, the position of Student Council President, and a chance to go to an Ivy League college, high school life is just fine for Hol

Posted in Award Winner Historical Romance Mystery

Black by Gaslight by Nene Adams

Nene Adams | Black by Gaslight | 2006 IPPY Award Winner! Gay/Lesbian

Winner: Black by Gaslight/The Madonna of the Sorrows, by Nene Adams (Cavalier Press)

August 188

Posted in Award Winner Fiction Romance

Shy Girl by Elizabeth Stark

Elizabeth Stark | Shy Girl | San Francisco’s edgy lesbian culture is the backdrop for this exploration of identity and secret lives. Alta Corral is a butch girl who is hung up on