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Making A Scene by Liz Millward

Liz Millward | Making A Scene | In the 1960s, a youthful and ambitious lesbian movement began taking shape in Canada. After decades of being pathologized, disparaged, or erased from

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Daring Hearts by Brighton Ourstory Project

Brighton Ourstory Project | Daring Hearts | A searing and informative collection of life stories based on taped interviews with forty lesbians and gay men who spoke openly about their lives in a

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Queer America by Vicki L. Eaklor

Vicki L. Eaklor | Queer America | It takes chutzpah, veteran lecturing, and a sophisticated appreciation of the expanding field of the history of sexuality to tackle writing a queer US

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We Are Everywhere by Mark Blasius; Shane Phelan

Mark Blasius; Shane Phelan | We Are Everywhere | An important and original new contribution to lesbian and gay studies,We Are Everywherebrings together the key primary sources relating to the politic

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The Lavender Scare by David K. Johnson

David K. Johnson | The Lavender Scare | In Cold War America, Senator Joseph McCarthy enjoyed tremendous support in the fight against what he called atheistic communism. But that support stem

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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