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Lesbian / woman

This is a paperback reprint of a lesbian-themed novel written after the pulp fiction era. The authors were activists during the mid-20th century (and beyond). They cofounded the Daughters of Bilitis (DOB) and The Ladder magazine.

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

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.

Girls in 3-B (The)

Three high school friends share an apartment in Chicago.

Women without men

Journalistic treatment of lesbian subcultures in France.

Shockproof Sydney Skate

This is a paperback reprint of a lesbian-themed novel written after the pulp fiction era. The author wrote several lesbian pulp paperbacks, using various pseudonyms.

Chamber Music

This is a paperback reprint of a lesbian-themed novel written after the pulp fiction era. Although the author published works in the 1950s and 1960s, they were not part of the lesbian pulp fiction genre.

Whisper of love

A marriage of convenience between Avery Lawes and Lisa Sheridan fails to offer the refuge they hoped it would.

Women in the shadows

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

Marriage (The)

No lesbian content. The narrators are a lesbian and a gay man who married in order to pass as straight. They tell the story of a married couple who belatedly discover that they are siblings.

We walk alone

Journalistic portraits of lesbian subcultures in and around New York

We two won't last

Journalistic portraits of lesbian subcultures in and around New York

We, too, must love

Journalistic portraits of lesbian subcultures in and around New York