Category: History

Craig A. Rimmerman | Gay Rights, Military Wrongs | We are unable to provide a description at this time.

Evelyn Blackwood | Falling Into The Lesbi World | Falling into the Lesbi World offers a compelling view of sexual and gender difference through the everyday lives of tombois and their girlfriends (fem

Martha Vicinus; George Chauncey; Martin Duberman | Hidden from History | Winner of two Lambda Rising Awards. ‘A landmark of a book and a landmark of ideas that will shatter ignorance and delusion.’-Catharine Stimpson.

Beth Marschak; Alex Lorch | Lesbian and Gay Richmond | The history of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in Richmond, Virginia, invokes a rich but uncelebrated past. From the first recor

John C. Beynon; Caroline Gonda | Lesbian Dames | How are the histories of English colonialism and Sapphism intertwined? In what ways did the consumer culture that colonialism fuel encourage or inhibi

Cameron Duder | Awfully Devoted Women | The lives of many lesbians who grew up before 1965 remain cloaked inmystery. Historians have illuminated the worlds of upper-middle-class’romantic fri

Nan Alamilla Boyd | Wide-Open Town | Wide-Open Town traces the history of gay men and lesbians in San Francisco from the turn of the century, when queer bars emerged in San Francisco’s to

Claudia Schoppmann | Zeit Der Maskierung | Schoppmann investigates the lives and stories of Lesbians in the Weimar Republic and during National Socialism. She is faced with little documentation

Francesca Stella | Lesbian Lives In Soviet And Post-Soviet Russia | Based on extensive ethnographic research, this book explores the everyday lives of ‘lesbian’ women in urban Russia. The first part (‘time’) examines g

Steve Estes | Ask and Tell | Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ was the directive of President Clinton’s 1993 military policy regarding gay and lesbian soldiers. This official silence continu