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Book: To Believe in Women

By Lillian Faderman

…battle to procure the rights and privileges that large numbers of Americans enjoy today (Kirkus Reviews). Hoping to “set the record straight (or, in this case, unstraight)” for all Americans and provide a “usable past” for lesbians in particular, Lillian

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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: 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: 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: Ghost Trio

By Phyllis Irwin and Lillian Faderman

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 plume of Lillian Q. Irwin….

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Book: Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers

By Lillian Faderman

In this groundbreaking book, she reclaims the history of lesbian life in twentieth-century America, tracing the evolution of lesbian identity and subcultures from early networks to more recent diverse lifestyles. She draws from journals, unpublished manuscripts, songs, media accounts, novels,…

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Book: Chloe Plus Olivia

By Lillian Faderman (Editor)

Combining the works of four centuries of lesbian and bisexual writers, by Willa Cather, Gertrude Stein, Carson McCullers, and others, a collection reviews the shifting concept of “lesbian literature” by exploring six different genres….