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fuckyeahlesbianliterature: “[image description: a page reading A Dozen Pre-Stonewall Novels by Lesbian Authors with Lesbian Characters or Content • Barnes, Djuna. Ladies Almanack. (1928) • Barnes, Djuna. Nightwood. (1937) • Colette. Claudine at...

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A Dozen Pre-Stonewall Novels by Lesbian Authors with Lesbian Characters or Content

  1. Barnes, Djuna. Ladies Almanack. (1928)
  2. Barnes, Djuna. Nightwood. (1937)
  3. Colette. Claudine at School. (1903; first published in U.S. in 1930)
  4. Hall, Radclyffe. The Well of Loneliness. (1928)
  5. Hull, Helen R. Labyrinth. (1922)
  6. Morgan, Claire (Patricia Highsmith). The Price of Salt. (1950)
  7. Renault, Mary. The Friendly Young Ladies. (1944; published in the U.S. as The Middle Mist)
  8. Rule, Jane. Desert of the Heart. (1964)
  9. Sinclair, Jo. Wasteland. (1946)
  10. Vivien, Renee. A Woman Appeared to Me. (1904)
  11. Willhelm, Gale. We Too Are Drifting. (1935)
  12. Willhelm, Gale. Torchlight to Valhalla. (1938)]

queerbetweenthelines:

A page from the Lesbian Almanac, 1996, compiled by the National Museum & Archive of Lesbian and Gay History in New York.

I’ve linked each title to the Amazon page, if you want more information.

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January 26, 2015
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weloveperioddrama:

period drama + lgbt (female characters)
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Could anyone tell me where these are from? I think the first one might be Dracula, but that’s the only one I can identify. Because I want to see every last one of these.

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January 19, 2015
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Queer characters DO NOT and SHOULD NOT have to “make straight people see how normal we are”. I have no interest in characters in literature who look like me but are not for me. Queer characters should first and foremost be for queer people. If straight people get anything out it, then that is a neat perk. I reject the idea of cloaking characters in respectability politics because queer characters are not to blame for queer oppression.

I do not want characters that are written to teach straight people that we are “good people” because the logical extension is to blame queer characters (and queer people) for not being good enough.

"

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bisexual-books:

Sarah Stumpf at bisexual-books.tumblr.com

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January 15, 2015
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dakotaaaa:

~Dream Girlfriends~

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(~Dream Boyfriends~)

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January 11, 2015
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"but this could have been about lesbians"

— me, right now, and about most things which aren’t about lesbians (via wolfbadtreepretty)

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January 07, 2015
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Anonymous asked: WHY ARE THERE NO BOOKS ABOUT LGBT ROMANCES WITH HAPPY ENDINGS???? ALSO WHY ARE 99% OF LGBT ROMANCE BOOKS ABOUT WHITE CIS MEN???

lotstradamus:

books that feature lgbt romances with happy endings: 

  • maurice by e. m. forster (notable because almost every ~*~queer narrative~*~ pre-80s ended in tragedy, and this was written in 1913!)
  • the charioteer by mary renault 
  • call me by your name by andre aciman (ymmv on the “happy ending”, but no one died so i’m calling it a win)
  • aristotle and dante discover the secrets of the universe by benjamin alire saenz
  • one man guy by michael barakiva
  • boy meets boy by david levithan
  • i’ll give you the sun by jandy nelson
  • grasshopper jungle by andrew smith (the world ends but other than that the ending is pretty chipper) 
  • the darkest part of the forest by holly black 
  • a hero at the end of the world by erin claiborne
  • will grayson, will grayson by john green & david levithan
  • the art of being normal by lisa williamson
  • “gay without the gay angst” books about girls
  • “gay without the gay angst” books about boys
  • goodreads list: best gay/lesbian fiction with happy endings

books that feature lgbt romances but aren’t about white cis men: 

  • tipping the velvet by sarah waters
  • a hero at the end of the world by erin claiborne
  • aristotle and dante discover the secrets of the universe by benjamin alire saenz
  • the art of being normal by lisa williamson
  • oranges are not the only fruit by jeanette winterson
  • the night watch by sarah waters
  • the hours by michael cunningham
  • the well of loneliness by radclyffe hall 
  • almost perfect by brian katcher
  • goodreads list: best lesbian fiction
  • goodreads shelf: most popular transgender books

books that are both: 

  • a hero at the end of the world by erin claiborne
  • aristotle and dante discover the secrets of the universe by benjamin alire saenz
  • the art of being normal by lisa williamson

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January 03, 2015
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pomme-poire-peche:

alphasapphirebrendan:

Make queer period pieces with happy endings

make queer realistic fiction with happy endings

make queer historical fiction with happy endings

destroy the idea that any queer person born before the 1980s has to lead a painful, loveless life

QUEER COSTUME DRAMAS NOW IMMEDIATELY

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January 01, 2015
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kiraisstillhere:

detectivechmilewsky:

Bunch of neat little comics from the gallery called ‘Minority Monsters’. Check it out here: http://www.discordcomics.com/minoritymonsters/

I LOVE THIS SO MUCH

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January 01, 2015
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December 30, 2014
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we are starving

ttragician:

lesroisdumonde:

“oh my GOd there are TWO gay characters in this movie lets watch it”

“dude dude dude we have to see it it has a queer girl”

"I heard this movie has non-sexualized female character”

"ok I know it only has one girl but she is written like an ACTUAL PERSON!!”

“THERE IS A TRANS CHARACTER”

“so its not canon but if you squint I think this character is asexual”

"and get this the gay character is actually not white”

#we are desperate

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