A comprehensive dictionary documenting Polari, the secret language used by gay men and women through the twentieth century, alongside a broader collection of lesbian and gay slang from English-speaking countries.
This anthropological collection edited by Evelyn Blackwood examines homosexuality cross-culturally, including significant scholarship on female same-sex relationships and lesbian identities in diverse societies around the world.
This work examines the lived experiences of lesbians navigating work environments and family structures, documenting how lesbian women create and maintain their lives within contexts often designed without them in mind.
Our Bodies, Ourselves: A And For Women A Book by and for Women (Touchstone Books) Boston Women’s Health Book Collective This paperback book ‘Our Bodies, Ourselves’ is preowned and is in good condition. It is a 2nd edition revised and expanded 1976. There is a black mark on the outside of the pages on the … Read more
A metaliterary hybrid memoir-novel following lesbian writer Michelle through 1990s San Francisco’s queer scene and her drug-fueled relationships, as the world literally begins ending around her move to Los Angeles, blending addiction recovery with apocalyptic fiction.
A candid essay collection by bisexual sexologist Carol Queen exploring sex-positive culture, sexual identity, sex work, and erotic experiences, combining memoir with cultural analysis and advocacy.
A 1956 psychoanalytic text arguing that homosexuality is a curable neurotic disease caused by pre-Oedipal conflicts, representing the dominant psychiatric establishment’s pathologizing view of lesbian and gay identities in the 1950s.
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.
Our Bodies, Ourselves Boston Women’s Health Book Collective; Judy Norsigian Hailed by The New York Times as a “feminist classic,” and “America’s bestselling book on women’s health,” the comprehensive guide to all aspects of women’s health and sexuality, including menopause, birth control, childbirth, sexual health, sexual orientation, gender identity, mental health and general well-being.Six years … Read more
In the quirky town of Laurel, longtime partners Roon and Raud have settled into a comfortable retirement filled with community activism, morning coffee rituals, and affectionate bickering. Their lives were turn upside down when they took in Tristan, a young trans man rejected by his family, who’s still proving himself to the world.