Browse Items (51 total)

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We, too, must love

Journalistic portraits of lesbian subcultures in and around New York

Odd girl out

Laura falls in love with her sorority suite mate, and finds herself entangled in a love triangle with Beth and Charlie

Women in the shadows

Race passing and passing for straight underscore the interrelationship tensions among Laura, Jack, Beebo, and Tris in 1950s New York.

Delicate vice (The)

Allison is torn between her love for Lydia and settling down with Cal.

Either is love

After the death of her husband, the narrator revisits the letters she wrote to him confessing her romantic relationship with another woman before they met.

Women without men

Journalistic treatment of lesbian subcultures in France.

Chris

Chris faces a difficult choice between her relationship with Shelia "Dizz" Dizendorf and the hope of happiness with Carol Martin

So strange a love

'A strange story of a married couple, each enmeshed in an illicit affair with a younger woman, and the erotic love the two younger women found in one another.'

Lesbian in our society (The)

Erotica compiled as psychiatric case studies

Girls in 3-B (The)

Three high school friends share an apartment in Chicago.

Women's barracks

Women's Barracks by Tereska Torrės is credited as the first of the mid-century pulp paperbacks to feature a lesbian-themed cover and contain passages describing physical intimacy between two women.

Strange ones (The)

Gay pulp fiction

Of love forbidden

Paperback reprint of a pre-1950s lesbian-themed novel

Guerrilla girls

An adventure story of a group of European and Muslim female volunteers in a National Liberation Front camp in the Aures mountains, Algeria

Sex and the armed services

Fictionalized sexual case studies