humangreenskull:I work in a rare/used bookstore and today I found this absolute gem: a complete bibl
humangreenskull:I work in a rare/used bookstore and today I found this absolute gem: a complete bibliography of every book printed before 1966 containing lesbian characters. It’s the first edition printed by The Ladder – the publication the Daughters of Bilitis used to publish and circulate some of the first lesbian statistics and surveys. There are HUDNREDS of titles in here, most of them lesbian pulp novels, and they all indicate whether the lesbian characters are main characters (A), secondary characters (B), or characters vaguely implied to be lesbians ©. We’re still deciding if it’s a salable book, but I hope we keep it in the shop as a reference text.Their coding system also has me rolling, like they wanted to empirically catalogue the fact that though a work may have lesbians in it, that work is still T for Trash -- source link
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