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Book: Scotch Verdict

By Lillian Faderman

…Award-winning author Lillian Faderman recreates the events surrounding this notorious case, which became the basis for Lillian Hellman’s famous play, The Children’s Hour. Reconstructing the libel suit filed by Pirie and Woods—which resulted in a scotch verdict, or a verdict…

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Book: To Believe in Women

By Lillian Faderman

In this “essential and impassioned addition to American history,” the three-time Lambda Literary Award winner and author of Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers focuses on a select group of late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century lesbians who were in the forefront of the…

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Book: Naked in the Promised Land

By Lillian Faderman

Born in 1940, Lillian Faderman is the only child of an uneducated and unmarried Jewish woman who left Latvia to seek a better life in America. Lillian grew up in poverty, but fantasised about becoming an actress. When her dreams…

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Book: The Gay Revolution

By Lillian Faderman | Narrated by Donna Postel

…“the most comprehensive history to date of America’s gay-rights movement” (The Economist), Lillian Faderman tells this unfinished story through the dramatic accounts of passionate struggles with sweep, depth, and feeling. The Gay Revolution begins in the 1950s, when gays and…

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Book: Gay L. A.

By Lillian Faderman and Stuart Timmons

…cultures in the world. Drawing upon untouched archives of documents and photographs and over 200 new interviews, Lillian Faderman and Stuart Timmons chart L.A.’s unique gay history, from the first missionary encounters with Native American cross-gendered “two spirits” to cross-dressing…

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Book: Ghost Trio

By Phyllis Irwin and Lillian Faderman

…teamed up with her spouse Lillian Faderman (often called the “mother of lesbian history”) to write Ghost Trio. This novel has been revised and updated from the Bold Strokes Books edition originally published in April 2013 under the nom de…