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Books from Archive.org

I was amazed and delighted to find so many older lesbian anthologies and books, some of which are quite hard to find print copies of, online for free, so I thought I should probably share some of my favorites. These aren’t all there is though, there are literally thousands, so if you’ve got any interest in older (meaning 1990s and earlier) lesbian writing, check it out! (I’m not sponsored or something I swear, this is just a ridiculously neat site)

Sappho Was A Right-On Woman: A Liberated View of Lesbianism : This book is a nonfiction account, written in 1973, about the past and present lives of lesbians. The first half reads a bit like a textbook at times, and was clearly targeted at those who know little to nothing about lesbians outside of prevalent stereotypes. It does include some really interesting information about bar culture and lesbian meetings. Keep in mind, though, that it’s a product of its time and had some sentences that would raise some eyebrows today. The second half was much more interesting, talking about the history of lesbian feminism in N.O.W. and other groups I’d never even heard of, like Radicalesbians.

The Vintage Book of International Lesbian Fiction : This is a collection of short stories written by lesbians from around the world. Most of them feature lesbians, some don’t, but they were all pretty interesting in their own right. Some of my favorites were “Stéphanie’s Book” about a married woman falling in love with her female friend, “Final Judgement” about a man judging G-d on Judgement Day, “Looking for Petronilla” about an immortal still mourning the one she left behind, “Water” about a Cuban-American woman visiting Cuba and its gay scene for the first time, “Under the Ironwood Trees” about a woman visiting her long-dead lover, “In the Heart of the Heart of Another Country,” short vignettes about a woman’s life in Lebanon, and “Minnie Gets Married” about a woman crashing her lover’s wedding.

Compreñeras: Latina Lesbians: An Anthology : This book is a mix of poems, short stories, and transcriptions of oral histories of the lives of Latina lesbians. They discuss their lives as immigrants to the United States, as members of the Chicano, gay and lesbian, feminist, black liberation movements, their lives on the street and as prostitutes, substance abuse, foster care, custody battles in courts hostile to lesbians, the neighborhood’s and employers’ and family’s responses to their coming out, accepting/rejecting butch and femme dynamics, internalized racial prejudice, homophobia, and misogyny, the pain of not knowing their racial identity, of learning a new language and losing their native tongue, of marrying a man, and then divorcing him, being institutionalized or jailed, being a lesbian mother, sexual abuse, growing up in the ‘50s, ‘60s, ‘70s, and everything in between. Some of the stories are in English and some Spanish, without translation, but it’s absolutely still worth reading if, like me, you can only read the English.

The Lesbian Path edited by Margaret Cruikshank : A collection of personal accounts of lesbian lives originally published in 1981. They range on a variety of topics, from seeing someone openly lesbian for the first time to first loves, being openly gay in high school, singing woman-identified music to lesbian crowds, being investigated by the government for “homosexual activity”, alcoholism, leaving/working to reforming religion, visits to the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, alienation from the term “lesbian,” coming out, and of course realizing that they are lesbians.

Other books I’ve read on this site are:

Living as a Lesbian: Poetry by Cheryl Clarke

Lesbian Nuns: Breaking Silence edited by Rosemary Curb and Nancy Manahan

Tangled Sheets: Stories & Poems of Lesbian Lust edited by Rosamund Elwin and Karen X. Tulchinsky

Solitaire by Kelley Eskridge

Gay L.A.: A History of Sexual Outlaws, Power Politics, and Lipstick Lesbians by Lillian Faderman and Stuart Timmons

Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America by Lillian Faderman

To Believe in Women: What Lesbians Have Done for America - A History by Lillian Faderman

My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness by Nagata Kabi

Speaking for Ourselves: Short Stories by Jewish Lesbians edited by Irene Zahava

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Rosemary + Madoka Elwine + Homura

I have a lot of Rosewine art, but if I'm going to post it, I'll have to translate it since it's all in Portuguese 😿

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This is day 8 of my otps rarepairs, I dedicated myself so much to this comic that I delayed other drawings lol