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Lesbian literature is a subgenre of literature addressing lesbian themes. It includes poetry, plays, fiction addressing lesbian characters, and non-fiction about lesbian-interest topics. A similar term is sapphic literature, encompassing works that feature love between women that are not necessarily lesbian. [2] [3] [4]
Many of them have written about the nature of same-sex love and desire using fictional, autobiographical, or journalistic forms. See also: List of gay, lesbian or bisexual people This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Women writers .
Emma Victor, a lesbian private investigator in San Francisco, California, in mysteries by Mary Wings; Fleur de Roller, an undercover security agent who falls for her subject in The Woman Who Pretended To Love Men (Those Strange Women #2) by Anna Ferrara; Gianna Maglione, lesbian police lieutenant in Washington, D.C., in mysteries by Penny ...
Lesbian Ijeoma and Amina fall in love with each other as children and keep loving each other way into adulthood. [189] Wilma Irrling Die Wilden Hühner und die Liebe: 2003 Cornelia Funke: Lesbian Wilma is one of the five main characters. She falls in love with Leonie, a girl from her theatre group and eventually comes out to her friends. [190 ...
Lesbians, Levis and Lipstick: The Meaning of Beauty in Our Lives (1st ed.). The Haworth Press. ISBN 0-7890-0661-8. Faderman, Lillian (1991). Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in 20th-Century America (1st ed.). Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0231074889. Greenberg, David F. (2008). The Construction of Homosexuality ...
In 1923, lesbian Elsa Gidlow, born in England, published the first volume of openly lesbian love poetry in the United States, On A Grey Thread. Yet, openly lesbian literature was still subject to censorship. In 1928, British lesbian author Radclyffe Hall wrote a tragic novel of lesbian love, The Well of Loneliness. After the book was banned in ...
The Hurley-Sloane lesbian couple survived to the end of the story, surviving a near-death experience. Sloane Ijeoma Under the Udala Trees: Chinelo Okparanta: 2015 Ijeoma and Amina fall in love with each other as children and keep loving each other way into adulthood. [59] Amina Wilma Irrling Die Wilden Hühner und die Liebe: Cornelia Funke: 2003
Sparkling Rain: and other fiction from Japan of women who love women is an English-language anthology of short stories from Japanese lesbian or bisexual women, edited by Barbara Summerhawk and Kimberly Hughes. It also includes essays about the history of Japanese lesbian literature.