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Aimee And Jaguar:
A Love Story, Berlin 1943
Tragic real-life love story. Lilly Wust (Aimee) was a conventional middle-class mother of four, estranged from her philandering husband, when she met Felice Schragenheim (Jaguar) in 1941. Their passionate affair unfolded against the backdrop of the deportation of Jews from Berlin, but several months passed before Felice could even bring herself to tell Lilly that she was Jewish and living illegally on the streets.
Lilly's heroic efforts to conceal and protect Felice through the next two years make for painful and inspiring reading. Felice was arrested in August 1944 and sent her last letter to Lilly four months later.
--Regina Marler
Aimee And Jaguar Becoming Visible:
An Illustrated History of Lesbian
and Gay Life in Twentieth-Century America
Based on the New York Public Library's groundbreaking 1994 exhibit of the same name, Becoming Visible represents the largest and most extensive display of gay and lesbian history ever mounted in a museum or gallery space. 350 photos, documents and artifacts, 80 in color.
Becoming Visible Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold:
The History of a Lesbian Community
Though the book focuses on the history of one lesbian community in Buffalo, New York from the 30s to the 60s, many of the themes and ideas are more generalizable. The book is comprehensive and inclusive of every imaginable theme. From societal attitudes and politics to sexual practices and relationship patterns including butch/fem culture and psychology, this book covers it all.
Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold Britannia's Glory:
A History of Twentieth-Century Lesbians
A story of British dykes in the 20th century. Topics include: lesbians and suffragists, lesbians and the outbreak of war, lesbians after the great war, lesbian life in the 1930s, the second world war, lesbians in the 1950s, and the politics of lesbianism.
Britannia's Glory Daughters of Desire:
Lesbian Representations in Film
by Shameem Kabir.
Daughters of Desire Gay Old Girls
A collection of nine life stories of lesbian life in America in the 20th century. Although some of the memories here stretch back to the 1920s, most date from the repressive postwar years and describe the difficulties of finding community, let alone lovers, when there were no safe, established meeting places for gay people.
--Regina Marler
Gay Old Girls Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers:
A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America
Faderman tells the compelling story of lesbian life in the 20th century, from the early 1900s to today's diverse lifestyles. Using journals, unpublished manuscripts, songs, news accounts, novels, medical literature, and numerous interviews, she relates an often surprising narrative of lesbian life. 16 pages of photos.
--The Los Angeles Times Book Review.
Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers Out for Good:
The Struggle to Build a
Gay Rights Movement in America
Writing about events within living memory is one of the hardest tasks for a historian, there is too much information, too many perspectives. The authors of Out for Good, both writers for the New York Times, not only drew on extensive archival records but conducted nearly 700 interviews with the founders and opponents of the early gay rights movement.
That they have been able to shape this unruly material into a convincing narrative is impressive enough, yet they have also managed to write one of the most dramatic and beautifully structured histories in recent years.
Out for Good Surpassing the Love of Men:
Romantic Friendship and Love
Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present
Records of an erotic attachment between women that showed no evidence of guilt, anxiety, or the need for secrecy. Why was passionate love between women, once almost universally applauded in the Western world, now almost universally condemned? It was only in the late 19th century that medical literature and antifeminism combined to rank women who loved women somewhere between necrophiliacs and those who had sex with chickens.
Exploration of romantic friendship, from French libertine literature through the dawn of feminism through the lesbian panic of the 1920s will still serve as solace and ammunition for those hoping to find a usable past.
--Regina Marler
Surpassing the Love of Men To Believe in Women:
What Lesbians Have Done for America
A History
Reveals that many of the early leaders who fought for women's suffrage, higher education for women would today be called lesbians. Women who lived in committed relationships with other women. Unencumbered by the duties of marriage and motherhood, they were more likely to have the time, energy, and freedom to work for women's rights.
During the Depression, when women's social and economic gains began to dwindle, it was these single women who kept professions open while married women were being fired in favor of men. Faderman gracefully surveys a century of advancement and retreat, shedding light on America's debt to women-loving women.
To Believe in Women 
