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Hear Us Out! : Lesbian and Gay Stories of Struggle, Progress, and Hope, 1950 to the Present
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| Author: Nancy Garden |
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What was it like being young and gay during the closeted 1950s, the exuberant beginnings of the modern gay rights movement in the 1970s, or the frightening outbreak of HIV and AIDS in the 1980s?
In this unique history, Nancy Garden uses both fact and fiction to explore just what it has meant to be young and gay in America during the last fifty years. For each decade from the 1950s on, she discusses in an essay the social and political events that shaped the lives of LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) people during that era. Then, in two short stories, she explores the emotional experiences of young gay people coming of age during those times, giving vivid insight into what it really felt like.
Hear Us Out is a comprehensive and rich account of gay life, both public and private, from one of the pioneers of young adult lesbian and gay literature.
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Intimate Betrayal: Domestic violence in lesbian relationships
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| Author: Edited by Ellen Kaschak |
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A groundbreaking look at the taboo issue Of domestic violence in lesbian relationships. - Dr Marny Hall, author of The Lesbian Love Companion
In this anthology of essays by a number of informed academics, social workers and members of the lesbian community, a taboo and complex subject is explored, offering a comprehensive scope and groundbreaking conclusions. Extremely well-edited and including full bibliographies and an index, this is an extremely useful resource for individuals, couples and family therapists as well as clinicians and researchers, training courses and students of women's studies and gender studies.
"Thought provoking, well written and informative." - Beverly Greene, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, St. John's University, New York
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Lesbian Pulp Fiction: The Sexually Intrepid World of Lesbian Paperback Novels 1950-1965
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| Author: Edited by Katherine V. Forrest |
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Through the darkness, you can see figures gathered in twos and threes—the glowing tip of a cigarette, a close-manicured hand draped over a shoulder, heads turning to study the new arrival. Someone moves toward you, snapping a lighter open. Step into the twilight world of lesbian pulps.
In 1950, Fawcett founded their Gold Medal imprint, inaugurating the reign of lesbian pulp fiction. These were the books that small-town lesbians and prurient men bought by the millions—cheap, easy to find in drugstores, and immediately recognizable by their lurid covers: often a hard-looking brunette standing over a scantily-clad blonde or a man gazing in tormented lust at a lovely, unobtainable lesbian. For women leading straight lives, here was their confirmation that they were not alone and that darkly glamorous, "gay" places like Greenwich Village existed. In the over-heated prose typical of the genre, these books document the emergence of a
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Love, Castro Street : Reflections of San Francisco
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| Author: Edited by Katherine V. Forrest and Jim Van Buskrik |
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Recognized as perhaps the world's most queer destination, San Francisco has a long, storied history of embracing-and influencing-gay and lesbian culture.
Now, Michael Nava, Elana Dykewoman, Lucy Jane Bledsoe, Jim Tushinski, Michele Tea, K.M. Soehnlein, and many others offer up essays and stories about why they love Castro Street. Katherine V. Forrest is the Lambda Award-winning author of Curious Wine, Daughters of the Emerald Dusk, and the Kate Delafield mystery series. Jim Van Buskirk, the director of the James C. Hormel Gay & Lesbian Center at the San Francisco Library, co-authored Gay by the Bay.
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Sapphistries: A global history of love between women
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| Author: Leila J. Rupp |
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From the ancient poet Sappho to tombois in contemporary Indonesia, women throughout history and around the globe have desired, loved, and had sex with other women. In beautiful prose, Sapphistries tells their stories, capturing the multitude of ways that diverse societies have shaped female same-sex sexuality across time and place.
Leila J. Rupp reveals how, from the time of the very earliest societies, the possibility of love between women has been known, even when it is feared, ignored, or denied. We hear women in the sex-segregated spaces of convents and harems whispering words of love. We see women beginning to find each other on the streets of London and Amsterdam, in the aristocratic circles of Paris, in the factories of Shanghai. We find women's desire and love for women meeting the light of day as Japanese schoolgirls fall in love, and lesbian bars and clubs spread from 1920s Berlin to 1950s Buffalo. And we encounter
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