Lesbians of Color and LGBTQ History

Bibliography on Lesbians of Color in the U.S. Past

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PART A: history, literature, memoir, theory:

Gloria Anzaldua, Making Face, Making Soul (Aunt Lute, 1990)

Gloria Anzaldua, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (SF: Aunt Lute, 1987)

Anita Cornwell, Black Lesbian in White America (1983)

Cathy Cohen, Contested Membership: Black Gay Identities and the Politics of AIDS (1996)

Cathy Cohen, "Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens: The Radical Potential of Queer Politics?" GLQ (1997)

Catriona Rueda Esquibel, With Her Machete in Her Hand: Reading Chicana Lesbians (2006)

Laura Harris, "Fish Tales: Revisiting 'A Study of a Public Lesbian Community'" in Harris and Crocker, eds., Femme: Feminists, Lesbians, and Bad Girls

Sharon Lim-Hing, The Very Inside: An Anthology of Writing by Asian and Pacific Islander Lesbian and Bisexual Women (Toronto: Sister Vision, 1994)

Audre Lorde, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (1982)

Audre Lorde, Sister/Outsider (1984)

Catherine McKinley, ed., Afrekete: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Writing (1995)

Lisa Moore and Stephen Fullwood, Carry the Word: A Bibliography of Black LGBTQ Books (Redbone, 2007)

Lisa C. Moore, ed. Does Your Mama Know? An Anthology of Black Lesbian Coming Out Stories (Redbone Press 1997)

Cherrie Moraga, Loving in the War Years: Lo Que Nunca Paso por Sus Labios (South End Press, 1983)

Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua, eds., This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (Kitchen Table Press, 1983)

Juanita Ramos, Companeras: A Latina Lesbian Anthology (NY: Latina Lesbian History Project, 1987)

Makeda Silvera, A Piece of My Heart: A Lesbian of Color Anthology (1991)

Roey [Rochella] Thorpe, "The Changing Face of Lesbian Bars in Detroit, 1938-1965" in Brett Beemyn, ed., Creating a Place for Ourselves: Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Community Histories.

Roey Thorpe, "A House Where Queers Go" in Ellen Lewin, ed., Inventing Lesbian Cultures in America

Immaculada Perpetusa-Seva and Lourdes Torres, eds., Tortilleras: Hispanic and U.S. Latina Lesbian Expression (Temple UP, 2003)

Carla Trujillo. ed., Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About (3rd Woman Press 1991)

Evelyn White et al., Black Like Us: A Century of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual African-American Fiction (SF: Cleis Press, 2002)

"Living with Pride: Ruth Ellis at 100"

===PART B: lesbian and/or feminist history and anthologies (with some information about or contributions by women of color):

Anne Enke, Finding the Movement

Lillian Faderman Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers

Elizabeth L. Kennedy and Madeline Davis, Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold

Gloria Hull et al., All the Women are White, All the Blacks are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave (Feminist Press 1982)

Karla Jay, Dyke Life: From Growing Up to Growing Old (Basic Books, 1995)

Kris Kleindienst, This is What Lesbian Looks Like: Dyke Activists Take On the 21st Century

Joan Larkin, ed., A Woman Like That: Lesbian and Bisexual Women Tell Their Coming Out Stories (Harper, 2000)

Joan Nestle, ed., The Persistent Desire: A Fem/Butch Reader

Barbara Smith, Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology (Kitchen Table Women of Color Press, 1983)

Marc Stein, City of Sisterly and Brotherly Loves: Lesbian and Gay Philadelphia

Marc Stein, ed., Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History in America (3 volumes) (New York: Scribners, 2003)