1950s
Reading Guide: Leslie Feinberg in Buffalo, 1960s
Do you know why everydyke giving every other dyke Stone Butch Blues to read is a trope? Because it’s flipping amazing and, yes, we are telling you to go read this book.
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1940s
Reading Guide: Butch-Femme in NYC’s Greenwich Village, 1940s-1960s
Is a butch always a butch, a fem always a fem? Who knows!
1940s
Reading Guide: Audre Lorde in NYC’s Greenwich Village, 1950s-1960s
We ramble further in our Reading Guide Fridays with the skinny on some must-read readings re dykes in the 1940s-1960s, both from that era and written in retrospect. Our fourth selection is basically one of the most central authors in the dyke canon... It’s safe to say
lesbian bars
Reading Guide: Mona’s Candle Light in San Francisco, 1950
You wanna go to a dyke bar where everybody knows your name? We all do. But as we wait for that miracle, go back in time to Mona's.
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.