Paula Christian | Edge of Twilight | ‘One of the most candid and challenging novels ever written about today’s women who dare to live in that outcast world of ‘twilight’ love’
Artemis Smith | The Third Sex | One of the most famous of the Lesbian erotic novels, set on Gay Street where women came to find new thrills or special kinds of partners.
Djuna Barnes; Cheryl J. Plumb | Nightwood | The version of Nightwood published in 1936 and revered ever since both as a classic modernist work and a groundbreaking lesbian novel differs i
Michael Bronski | A Queer History Of The United States | ‘A Queer History of the United States is groundbreaking and accessible. It looks at how American culture has shaped the LGBT, or queer, experience, wh
Del Martin; Phyllis Lyon | Lesbian / Woman | Lesbian/Woman is a work by the feminist and gay rights activists Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon, in which the authors discuss what it means to be a lesbi
Jane Rule | This Is Not for You | This Is Not For You, perhaps Rule’s most self-consciously literary and philosophical novel, tells the story of a young woman in the late 1950s and ear
