The first English ethnography of queer women’s intimate lives in Mexico City, tracing three generations across marriage, polyamory, friendship, and shifting legal ground.
It includes significant historical accounts of women-loving-women, such as 19th-century actor Charlotte Cushman’s ‘female marriage,’ cross-dressing female soldiers in the Civil War, and the Daughters of Bilitis.
It includes significant historical accounts of women-loving-women, such as 19th-century actor Charlotte Cushman’s ‘female marriage,’ cross-dressing female soldiers in the Civil War, and the Daughters of Bilitis.
An interdisciplinary academic anthology examining domestic spaces and homemaking through queer perspectives, with chapters analyzing everything from lesbian pulp fiction kitchens to queer bathrooms, closets, and gardens across multiple scholarly disciplines.
A groundbreaking 1973 sociological study that pioneered the social constructionist approach to sexuality, examining how sexual behaviors and identities—including lesbian and gay sexualities—are socially scripted rather than biologically determined.
A comprehensive dictionary documenting Polari, the secret language used by gay men and women through the twentieth century, alongside a broader collection of lesbian and gay slang from English-speaking countries.
A 1956 psychoanalytic text arguing that homosexuality is a curable neurotic disease caused by pre-Oedipal conflicts, representing the dominant psychiatric establishment’s pathologizing view of lesbian and gay identities in the 1950s.
The first biography of thriller writer Patricia Highsmith draws on her private diaries, notebooks, and letters to reveal her secret life as a lesbian, her many relationships with women, and the connections between her sexuality and her groundbreaking psychological suspense novels.
A comprehensive dictionary documenting Polari, the secret language used by gay men and women through the twentieth century, alongside a broader collection of lesbian and gay slang from English-speaking countries.
An oral history documenting the untold lives of 62 lesbians aged 55 to 95, giving voice to their experiences with coming out, identity, family, work, aging, adversity, and resilience across twentieth-century America.