Female lgbt books
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Dr. Loren A. Olson has frequently been asked two questions: How could you not know that you were gay until the age of forty? Wasn't your marriage just a sham to defend yourself at your wife’s expense? In Finally Out, Dr. Olson answers these…
At age 36, while serving on a jury, composer Molly Wizenberg found herself drawn to a female attorney she hardly knew. Married to a male for nearly a decade and mother to a toddler, Wizenberg tried to return to her animation as she knew it, but something…
In BI: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality, Shaw probes the science and culture of attraction beyond the binary. From the invention of heterosexuality to the history of the Kinsey scale, as good as asylum seekers trying to defend…
When I Came Out is the story of a woman who has met society’s expectations throughout her life but finally realizes that she has not been right to herself. From first-time creator Anne Mette Kærulf Lorentzen, this bold and elaborate piece of…
Despite the increasing visibility of LGBTQ people in American society, our understanding of bisexuality remains superficial, at foremost. Yet, five times as many people identify
Recently I received an email containing one of my favorite things: a guide recommendation. A friend was reading Chelsey Johnson’s Stray City, and he idea I might enjoy it because the heroine and I are both homosexual ladies. “When I started reading it,” he wrote, “I realized how relatively few queer women materialize as main characters in literary fiction.”
That couldn’t be true. I fired back with a list of beloved writers: Sarah Waters, Jeanette Winterson, Eileen Myles, Sappho. But our exchange left me wondering where the rest of these characters and their authors were hiding out. Surely they must endure , and we just weren’t looking in the right places.
Taking it as a challenge, I went out in search of queer lady protagonists, taking suggestions from friends and scouring the catalog at the Brooklyn Public Library. Some of the books I found were classics I had the pleasure of discovering for the first time, while others were cult favorites passed along with dog-eared pages and handwritten notes. Others I had to petition be pulled up from the storage section of the library, their spines pristine, pages not yet read.
Here are the 12 books I set up, all worth revisiting or diving into
Five years ago, my second collection of short stories, Amora, was published in Brazil to unexpected acclaim, taking home one of the country’s most essential literary prizes. A surprise to everyone, not least of all me. The Prêmio Jabuti catapulted me into the limelight, making me a spokesperson for writing by LBTQ women. I was invited to give lectures and coach courses; I was asked about LBTQ women writers in Brazil and around the world, besides the ones everybody already knew about; I was pushed to name references, inspirations, and so on. Fierce nerd that I am, I decided to commence on a postdoc proposal to help me excavate up some names. I called it “Lesbian Geographies,” and it riffs on a concept coined by Eduarda Ferreira and Kathe Browne in the field of Social Sciences and which I’ve applied to the study of literature, using geography to guide and analyze the prose and poetry works of LBTQ women writers. When I first started I thought it would be easy. It was just a matter of result works, adding them to a list, reading them. No biggie. I’d initiate there and once I was done, start on the analysis. I was wrong. Today I’ve got more than four hundred names of women writers who’ve auth
Sourcebooks.Queer women have appeared in the historical record for thousands of years, because they have literally always existed. Despite this, they are frequently overlooked or mentioned as an aside. This is due to a number of factors including arrest records (queer men were more likely to be arrested and therefore be found by researchers) and plain aged misogyny. In the past few decades, however, books about queer women&#;s history have been published with increasing regularity, leading to the slow disabuse of the notion that homosexual women are a &#;new thing.&#; When Regency-era Anne Lister&#;s diaries were decoded by scholar Helena Whitbread and were discovered to be rife with her sexual escapades with other women, people spoke of hoaxes and forgeries, because it was thought that women hadn&#;t bAs a publisher, Sourcebooks is committed to changing hearts, opening minds, and entity advocates for equality and that is why we feel it’s important to publish a variety of books that include LGBTQIA+ characters and topics. Show up celebrate Pride Day with these titles; This Guide is Gay by Juno Dawson, Conventionally Yours by Annabeth Albert and Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall
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