An influential anthology of queer solo performance scripts from the 1990s edited by lesbian performance artist Holly Hughes and theater critic David Roman, featuring groundbreaking pieces by performers including Holly Hughes’s ‘Clit Notes’ on lesbian sexuality, Peggy Shaw’s exploration of butch identity, Tim Miller on gay male desire, and other artists addressing AIDS, breast cancer, racism, gender, and LGBTQ+ life.
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.
A raw punk rock memoir chronicling Syrian-American Rayya Elias’s journey from her childhood in Aleppo through Detroit to 1980s Lower East Side New York, where she pursued music and hairstyling while exploring her sexuality with lovers of both sexes, battling heroin addiction, experiencing homelessness and incarceration, and ultimately finding redemption and sobriety.
A photo-essay narrated by 11-year-old Zack describing his life growing up with his divorced mother and her lesbian partner Margie as his two moms, addressing topics like dealing with anti-gay comments at school, attending Gay Pride events, and explaining different family structures to peers.
An illustrated handbook celebrating LGBTQ+ history and culture created by lesbian couple Ashley Molesso and Chessie Needham, featuring facts, timelines, historical icons and events, and LGBTQ+ terminology definitions across 100 full-color illustrations.
A poststructuralist feminist writer bridges the distance between love and language by chronicling a passionate love affair between two women, creating a poetic meditation on desire, intimacy, and identity.
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.
An exploration of six specific physical and cultural spaces—from bars to bookstores—that defined lesbian and queer women’s lives.
A study of the ‘feminist-lesbian’ figure in the American collective memory of the 1970s.
A history of how lesbians used early information technologies to build community.