Passions Between Women: British Lesbian Culture 1668-1801 | Donoghue Emma | Where previous historians have concluded that a combination of censorship and ignorance excluded lesbian experience from written history before our er
Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold | Elizabeth Kennedy | ‘Soars on the plain yet eloquent voices of the women…A necessary and overdue addition to the archives of lesbian and gay history.’The Boston Globe.
Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy | Judith C. Brown | The story of Sister Benedetta Carlini, Abbess of the Convent of the Mother of God, and Sister Bartolomea Crivelli represents the earliest documented l
Before the Closet: Same-Sex Love from ‘Beowulf’ to ‘Angels in America’ | Allen J. Frantzen | Allen J. Frantzen challenges the long accepted view that the early Middle Ages tolerated and even fostered same-sex relations and that intolerance of
Before the Closet: Same-Sex Love from ‘Beowulf’ to ‘Angels in America’ | Allen J. Frantzen | Allen J. Frantzen challenges the long accepted view that the early Middle Ages tolerated and even fostered same-sex relations and that intolerance of
Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America (Between Men–Between Women) | Professor Lillian Faderman | Lillian Faderman tells the compelling story of lesbian life in the 20th century, from the early 1900s to today’s diverse lifestyles. Using journals, u
Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers | Lillian Faderman | As Lillian Faderman writes, there are ‘no constants with regard to lesbianism,’ except that lesbians prefer women. In this groundbreaking book, she re
Days of Masquerade | Claudia Schoppmann | In Days of Masquerade Claudia Schoppmann offers the first in-depth account of lesbians living in Germany during the Third Reich. Through a series of i
Lesbian Pulp Fiction: The Sexually Intrepid World of Lesbian Paperback Novels 1950-1965 | Katherine V. Forrest | Long before the rise of the modern gay movement, an unnoticed literary revolution was occurring between the covers of the cheaply produced lesbian pul
No Bath but Plenty of Bubbles: An Oral History of the Gay Liberation Front, 1970-73 | Lisa Power | The Gay Liberation Front dragged homosexuality out of the closet, onto the streets and into the public eye. Its London supporters held the first gay d
