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Transgender Liberation by Leslie Feinberg

Leslie Feinberg | Transgender Liberation | Leslie Feinberg’s 1992 “Transgender Liberation: A movement whose time has come.” The first paragraph says: “This pamphlet is an attempt to trace the h

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The Lesbian and Gay Movements by Craig A. Rimmerman

Craig A. Rimmerman | The Lesbian and Gay Movements | Throughout their relatively short history, the lesbian and gay movements in the United States have endured searing conflicts over whether to embrace a

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Secret Sexualities by Ian McCormick

Ian McCormick | Secret Sexualities | A groundbreaking, comprehensive study of lesbian and gay culture from 1620-1785, ‘Secret Sexualities’ collects for the first time a broad range of rar

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The Pink And The Black by Frédéric Martel

Frédéric Martel | The Pink And The Black | This book examines the development of France’s male and female homosexual communities and its gay liberation movements after 1968. The book focuses on

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Lesbians in Germany: 1890’S-1920’s by Lillian Faderman; Brigitte Eriksson

Lillian Faderman; Brigitte Eriksson | Lesbians in Germany: 1890’S-1920’s | A collection of writings, translated by the authors/editors, by women who loved women in turn-of-the-century Germany. Writing at a time when the early

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To Believe in Women by Lillian Faderman

Lillian Faderman | To Believe in Women | From the author of the acclaimed Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers, a landmark work of lesbian history that both ‘sets the record straight (or unstraight)

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Queer A Graphic History by Julia Scheele; Meg-John Barker

Julia Scheele; Meg-John Barker | Queer A Graphic History | Activist-academic Meg John Barker and cartoonist Julia Scheele illuminate the histories of queer thought and LGBTQ+ action in this groundbreaking non-

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Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers by Lillian Faderman

Lillian Faderman | Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers | From Library Journal

Faderman charts the evolution of the concept of the ‘lesbian’ as a 20th-century social construct and shows how love between w

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City of Sisterly and Brotherly Loves by Marc Stein

Marc Stein | City of Sisterly and Brotherly Loves | In this pathbreaking history, Marc Stein takes an in-depth look at Philadelphia from the 1940s to the 1970s. What he finds is a city of vibrant gay an

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Awfully Devoted Women by Cameron Duder

Cameron Duder | Awfully Devoted Women | The lives of lesbians before 1965 remain cloaked in mystery. Historians have turned the spotlight on upper-middle-class ‘romantic friends’ and on work