Lesbian History


Stone Butch Blues
Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community
S/He
Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America
The Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader
Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present
Not a Passing Phase: Reclaiming Lesbians in History 1840-1985
Hijab Butch Blues
Afrekete
I Know My Own Heart: The Diaries, 1791-1840
Butch Is a Noun
Butch/Femme: Inside Lesbian Gender
The Femme Mystique
The Disappearing L: Erasure of Lesbian Spaces and Culture
Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America
You Can't Buy Love Like That by Carol E. AndersonCompulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence by Adrienne RichLesbian Ethics by Sarah Lucia HoaglandThe Straight Mind by Monique WittigSister Outsider by Audre Lorde
Lesbian-Feminist Nonfiction
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Natalie Clifford Barney
La grande courtisane, la petite sainte.
Natalie Barney

Audre Lorde
On the table behind the built-in bar stood opened bottles of gin, bourbon, scotch, soda, and other various mixers. The bar itself was covered with little delicacies of all descriptions: chips, dips, and little crackers and squares of bread laced with the usual dabs of egg salad and sardine paste. There was a platter of delicious fried chicken wings and a pan of potato-and-egg salad dressed with vinegar. Bowls of lives and pickles surrounded the main dishes, along with trays of red crabapples and ...more
Audre Lorde, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name

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