I’ve just received my copy of Beebo Brinker in the mail bought from Amazon. It’s the last of a series of 6 novels published between 1957-1962, but it’s actually a prequel to all of them, so I guess it makes sense to read this first. I’m quite psyched, being deprived of lesbian-themed books in general. […]

To be sure, the book Lesbian Nuns: Breaking the Silence is not meant to titillate the senses. It is a collection of real people’s stories, a serious exploration of a subject everybody knew, but was never talked about: there are many lesbians in the convents. I grew up wanting to be a nun, and so […]

1. This is how it doesn’t start:
We were fifteen, it was raining, and the dirt road on the way home was already soft mud. At the door, we tried our best to shake off the earth caked around our legs, knee-high, our uniforms still dripping at the edges, rain still battering the roof above our […]

Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf? Certainly not me. I’m immensely fascinated by her, as I am with all intelligent women (my Kryptonite, my weakness). I think I first found her during college which, admittedly, was a little late. And after watching The Hours, I was hooked, line and sinker. I tried to read all her […]

(Part 2 of 2: 1952-1969)
During the post-war era, a new type of genre emerged: lesbian pulp fiction. These pulp novels, named as such because of the cheap paper they were printed on, were primarily targeted to red-blooded males. The authors were mostly men, but a few were written by lesbians using pseudonyms. Even though the […]

(Part 1 of 2: 1928-1938)
Like most of you, I often complain that whenever I go to bookstores, lesbian titles seem little to none. So I did a little research and found we actually do have a lot of books out there, but perhaps not widely circulated (Amazon is a good stop). I’m in the mood […]