Lesbian category: 9059 books

A half century ago gay men and lesbians were all but invisible in the media and, in turn, popular culture. With the lesbian and gay liberation movement came a profoundly new sense of homosexual community and empowerment and the emergence of gay people onto the media's stage. And yet even as the mass...

A memoir from the award-winning author of My Lesbian Husband, Barrie Jean Borich’s Body Geographic turns personal history into an inspired reflection on the points where place and person intersect, where running away meets running toward, and where dislocation means finding oneself.  One...

**2014 Lambda Literary Award Finalist: LGBT Nonfiction Breaks down the most commonly held misconceptions about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people and their lives** ** ** In “You Can Tell Just by Looking” three scholars and activists come together to unpack enduring, popular,...

For most of its history, the Peoples Temple existed under the radar. Most had never even heard of the church until news of the tragic deaths of more than nine hundred men, women, and children in the jungles of Guyana broke in November of 1978.Th e lives and deaths of the members of the Peoples Temple...

A “vivid and engrossing” narrative of one woman’s journey from shame and internal conflict to becoming a liberated, confident, and proud lesbian (Kirkus Reviews).   The descendant of survivors of the Armenian genocide, Arlene Avakian was raised in America where she could live free. But even...

This brave and moving collection of stories by South African lesbian women from different backgrounds reminds us, again, that rights are never finally won in legislatures or in court rooms. They are won by people exercising them. The authors of the stories and poems in this book have done just that....

Ruth Marimo is an Illegal Immigrant. Born in Zimbabwe, Marimo has traveled the world, gaining insight and deep appreciation for the plight of the illegal immigrant. Sharing firsthand recollections of how her status has been used as a weapon by employers, greedy predators, and even her own husband,...

In this autobiographical graphic novel, Beldan Sezen revisits the various instances of her coming of age, and her coming out as lesbian, in both western and Islamic cultures (as the daughter of Turkish immigrants in western Europe)—to friends, family, and herself. Through a series of vignettes,...

Reading can give you a pretty dirty imagination if you're not careful... Lindsay's always been something of a shy girl. She's eighteen and a virgin, and not at all ready for her induction into the hyper-sexual world of college life. For whatever reason . But then something unexpected happened. When she met.

Society does not make it easy for young people, regardless of their sexual orientation, to find accurate, nonjudgmental information about homosexuality. It makes it even more difficult for young homosexuals to find positive role models in fiction either written or published expressly for them or—if...

Home from college with nothing to do, Renée settles in for an evening of mindless channel surfing. But when she discovers her Dad’s secret stash of sex tapes, what choice does she have but to watch them? And if that didn’t make Renée’s night special, getting caught by her licentious Aunt Kiki certainly does. In ways the inexperienced teenager could never imagine.

Life in Chile was far from simple for anyone. As an outspoken determined woman, Esther Olivares was bound to walk a rocky path. Add to that a complicated family, a turbulent political situation and the growing realisation that she’s a lesbian. The story covers her life between 1939-1977....

Enter a midnight world of the supernatural—a world of vampires, werewolves, witches, ghosts, and demons. A seductive world limited only by your imagination, full of dark fantasies, hidden desires, and sexy women who rule the night. Edited by award-winning editors Radclyffe and Stacia Seaman, Women...

Jamie’s kiss was raw passionate hunger. Hers was the kiss of somebody who wanted to fuck – immediately. Her hands groped their way up her body, her tongue probed deeply. And Suzy felt overwhelmed by it all. The passion, the desire, the insistence that she surrendered. She’d never felt more wanted...