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Feeling Backward by Heather Love

Heather Love | Feeling Backward | Feeling Backward weighs the costs of the contemporary move to the mainstream in lesbian and gay culture. While the widening tolerance for same-sex mar

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Falling Into The Lesbi World by Evelyn Blackwood

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

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Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender People With Developmental Disabilities and Mental Retardation by John D. Allen

John D. Allen | Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender People With Developmental Disabilities and Mental Retardation | Allen’s succinct book is a very readable account of the Rainbow Support Group based in Connecticut, USA. Significantly, it states that Connecticut has

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Out of the Mouth of Queers by Erin McHugh

Erin McHugh | Out of the Mouth of Queers | Thoughts from the gays of yesteryear to today’s ‘friends of queers.’ Observations on love and sex, politics, fashion and much more, these are the word

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Social Work Practice With Older Lesbians And Gay Men by Ann Fannin; Lee-Ann Fenge; Tina Hicks; Nichola Lavin; Keith Brown

Ann Fannin; Lee-Ann Fenge; Tina Hicks; Nichola Lavin; Keith Brown | Social Work Practice With Older Lesbians And Gay Men | Recent policy in Britain has promoted the recognition of diversity of experience in later life. However, despite this, sexuality in later life is a li

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Joining the Tribe by Linnea A. Due

Linnea A. Due | Joining the Tribe | Like a lot of fortysomething gay men and lesbians, including me, Linnea Due thought that the post-Stonewall culture, full of queer parades, films, and

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Invisible Lives by Martha Barron Barrett

Martha Barron Barrett | Invisible Lives | From Publishers Weekly

To challenge the common stereotype of lesbians, and to combat the hostility, prejudice and ignorance which condemns million

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The Rest Of The Way by Enid Duchin Jackowitz

Enid Duchin Jackowitz | The Rest Of The Way | In The Rest Of The Way psychotherapist Enid Duchin Jackowitz tells the story of her son’s coming out over twenty years ago. Her journey is one of pers

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Straight News by Edward Alwood

Edward Alwood | Straight News | From the flurry of reportage on alleged homosexual depravity in the 1950s to the growing sensitivity to the AIDS epidemic, symbolized by broadcast jou

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Voyage From Lesbos by Richard C. Robertiello, (M.D.)

Richard C. Robertiello, (M.D.) | Voyage From Lesbos | ‘the first complete report of the psychoanalysis of a lesbian ever published. An intimate picture of the psychological and behavioral problems in fem