dyke bars
How to Be an Activist: the 1980s from Auntie Valerie Walker
How racist is queer life? And how do you be a 40+ year activist despite it? Auntie Valerie Walker tells all, including how "the bar scene is its own movement."
butch-femme
Asian lesbians
Reading Guide: Lily Hu in San Francisco, 1954
Buy this book for the gayass youth in your life or the gayass youth in you, and for every East Asian dyke you know so they/she/he feels as seen and represented as they should be. <3
1940s
Reading Guide: The Beebo Brinker Chronicles, 1957-1962
Bannon writes of the iconic, tall, hot, mildly-unhinged Beebo as she tries to make a life for herself in late 1950s Greenwich Village.
1940s
Reading Guide 1940s-1960s: Dyke Bar* History as Told by Beebo, Lily, Audre, Leslie, Alix, & Mona
How do we even begin to tell the lezbiqueertrans history of the 1940s-1960s? With "gender impersonators," especially!