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The Sophie Horowitz Story

Sometimes intrepid Jewish reporter for the Feminist News searches for captured radical feminist leaders.

How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States

How Sex Changed is a fascinating social, cultural, and medical history of transsexuality in the United States. Joanne Meyerowitz tells a powerful human story about people who had a deep and unshakable desire to transform their bodily sex. In the last century when many challenged the social categories and hierarchies of race, class, and gender, transsexuals questioned biological sex itself, the category that seemed most fundamental and fixed of all. From early twentieth-century sex experiments in Europe, to the saga of Christine Jorgensen, whose sex-change surgery made headlines in 1952, to today's growing transgender movement, Meyerowitz gives us the first serious history of transsexuality. She focuses on the stories of transsexual men and women themselves, as well as a large supporting cast of doctors, scientists, journalists, lawyers, judges, feminists, and gay liberationists, as they debated the big questions of medical ethics, nature versus nurture, self and society, and the scope of human rights. In this story of transsexuality, Meyerowitz shows how new definitions of sex circulated in popular culture, science, medicine, and the law, and she elucidates the tidal shifts in our social, moral, and medical beliefs over the twentieth century, away from sex as an evident biological certainty and toward an understanding of sex as something malleable and complex. How Sex Changed is an intimate history that illuminates the very changes that shape our understanding of sex, gender, and sexuality today.

Aimee & Jaguar: A Love Story, Berlin 1943

A real-life love story between two women, one of them a Jew living illegally on the streets during WWII.

Men On Men

First book in this series of gay fiction anthologies.

Surplus: A Novel

First published in 1924. Relationship between two military women after the first world war.

The Pianist

Dramatic story of a pianists survival of World War II in Poland.

The Wisdom of Big Bird (and the Dark Genius of Oscar the Grouch): Lessons From a Life in Feathers

Memoir of the man inside Big Bird from Sesame Street.

The Sharon Kowalski Case: Lesbian and Gay Rights on Trial

Study of a long dispute for guardianship of a disabled woman between her parents and her partner.

The Best Lawyer In A One-Lawyer Town

Autobiography of the former Arkansas governor and legislator.

Letters To Montgomery Clift

Young boy writes letters to the spirit of Montgomery Clift as we waits for his mother to return; ALA Gay/lesbian fiction award winner.

Riverfinger Women

Lesbian novel.

Political Poison

Second Paul Turner mystery; gay detective with two children; sequel to Sorry Now.

Good Moon Rising

Lambda Literary Award winner Good Moon Rising is about two young women who fall in love while rehearsing a school play, realize they're gay, and resist a homophobic campaign against them.

Does Your Mama Know?: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Coming Out Stories

short stories

Dare to Repair: A Do-It-Herself Guide to Fixing (Almost) Anything In The Home

A repair guide written especially for women.

Lesbian Rabbis: The First Generation

Stories of eighteen lesbian rabbis.

Working Parts: A Novel

Lesbian Novel

Ladies First: Revelations of a Strong Woman

Autobiography of a rap star.

More Than Welcome: Learning to Embrace Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Persons in the Church

Men on Men 2000: Best New Gay Fiction for the Millennium (Men on Men, No #8)

This is the eighth book in a series of fiction anthologies

Mr. Dalloway

A day in the life of Richard Dalloway.

Beebo Brinker

Early lesbian fiction

Girl Walking Backwards

Sixteen-year-old Sky deals with irresponsible parents and her own life difficulties.

Odd Girl Out

First published in 1957; early lesbian fiction; first in Beebo Brinker chronicles.

Women on Women 3: A New Anthology of American Lesbian Fiction

Third in this series of anthologies.