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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

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Out For Good by Dudley Clendinen; Adam Nagourney

Dudley Clendinen; Adam Nagourney | Out For Good | This is the definitive account of the last great struggle for equal rights in the twentieth century. From the birth of the modern gay rights movement

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Changing Times by David W. Jackson

David W. Jackson | Changing Times | The ‘gay liberation’ movement launched in Kansas City in February 1966, when the National Planning Conference of Homophile Organizations (NPCHO) was e

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Undercover Girl by Lisa E. Davis

Lisa E. Davis | Undercover Girl | At the height of the Red Scare, Angela Calomiris was a paid FBI informant inside the American Communist Party. As a Greenwich Village photographer, Ca