In honor of Lesbian Visibility Week, which takes place April 22nd – April 28th, and Lesbian Visibility Day on April 26th, we are sharing books by and about lesbians, and their experiences and history.
Books for Lesbian Visibility Week
By Coll Rowe | April 19 2024 | LiteratureSociology
“Zami is a fast-moving chronicle. From the author’s vivid childhood memories in Harlem to her coming of age in the late 1950s, the nature of Audre Lorde’s work is cyclical. It especially relates the linkage of women who have shaped her . . . Lorde brings into play her craft of lush description and characterization. It keeps unfolding page after page.”—Off Our Backs
- English > Comparative Literature > LGBTQIA+ Literature
- English > Comparative Literature > Literature by Women
- English > Comparative Literature > Memoir
- English > Comparative Literature: American > African American Memoir
- English > Comparative Literature: American > African American Non-Fiction
- English > Literature > American Literature – Non-Fiction
- Interdisciplinary Studies > Family Studies and Human Development > Human Sexuality
- Interdisciplinary Studies > Race and Ethnic Studies > African American Literature
- Interdisciplinary Studies > Race and Ethnic Studies > African American Studies
- Interdisciplinary Studies > Social Science > LGBTQIA+ Studies
- Interdisciplinary Studies > Women's and Gender Studies > Introduction to Women's Studies
- Interdisciplinary Studies > Women's and Gender Studies > LGBTQIA+ Studies
- Interdisciplinary Studies > Women's and Gender Studies > Race, Class, and Gender
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- English > Comparative Literature > Feminist Theory and Literary Criticism
- English > Comparative Literature > LGBTQIA+ Literature
- Interdisciplinary Studies > Race and Ethnic Studies > African American History
- Interdisciplinary Studies > Race and Ethnic Studies > African American Literature
- Interdisciplinary Studies > Race and Ethnic Studies > African American Studies
- Interdisciplinary Studies > Race and Ethnic Studies > Introduction to Cultural Studies
- Interdisciplinary Studies > Women's and Gender Studies > Introduction to Women's Studies
- Interdisciplinary Studies > Women's and Gender Studies > Race, Class, and Gender
- Interdisciplinary Studies > Women's and Gender Studies > Sociology of Women
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Cantoras is a revolutionary novel about five wildly different women who, in the midst of the Uruguayan dictatorship, find one another as lovers, friends, and ultimately, family.
At the heart of this riveting, inventive history, Amelia Possanza asks: How could lesbian love help us reimagine care and community? What would our world look like if we replaced its foundation of misogyny with something new, with something distinctly lesbian?
- English > Comparative Literature > Immigrant and Refugee Literature
- English > Comparative Literature > LGBTQIA+ Literature
- Interdisciplinary Studies > Race and Ethnic Studies > Middle East Studies
- Interdisciplinary Studies > Social Science > LGBTQIA+ Studies
- Interdisciplinary Studies > Social Science > Migration Studies
- Interdisciplinary Studies > Women's and Gender Studies > Introduction to Gender Studies
- Interdisciplinary Studies > Women's and Gender Studies > LGBTQIA+ Studies
- Interdisciplinary Studies > Women's and Gender Studies > Race, Class, and Gender
- Interdisciplinary Studies > Women's and Gender Studies > Women and Religion
- Religion > Comparative Religion > Islam
- Sociology > Race / Class / Gender > Gender Studies
- Sociology > Race / Class / Gender > Human Sexuality
- Student Success and Career Development > Student Success > First-Year Experience
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A groundbreaking work of reportage by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jo Becker, Forcing the Spring is the definitive account of five remarkable years in American civil rights history, when the United States experienced a tectonic shift on the issue of marriage equality.
- History > Period History: U.S. > America in the 21st Century
- History > Race and Gender Studies > History of Gender in America
- History > Topical History > History of Law
- History > Topical History > History of LGBTQIA+
- History > U.S. History > Legal History
- Interdisciplinary Studies > Women's and Gender Studies > Introduction to Gender Studies
- Political Science > American Government and Politics > The Courts and Judicial Process
- Legal and Paralegal Studies > Legal Studies > Legal History
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Originally published in 1971, Merle Miller’s On Being Different is a pioneering and thought-provoking book about being homosexual in the United States.
Legendary Children centers itself around the idea that not only is RuPaul’s Drag Race the queerest show in the history of television, but that RuPaul and company devised a show that serves as an actual museum of queer cultural and social history, drawing on queer traditions and the work of legendary figures going back nearly a century.
- History > Race and Gender Studies > History of Gender in America
- History > Topical History > History of Gender and Sexuality
- History > Topical History > History of LGBTQIA+
- Interdisciplinary Studies > Social Science > American Popular Culture
- Interdisciplinary Studies > Social Science > American Studies
- Sociology > Race / Class / Gender > Gender Studies
- Sociology > Race / Class / Gender > Human Sexuality
- Sociology > Social Institutions > Popular Culture
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From National Book Award winner Masha Gessen, the heroic story of Pussy Riot, who resurrected the power of truth in a society built on lies.
- History > Race and Gender Studies > Specialized Courses
- History > Regional History: Russia and Eastern Europe > Russia and Former USSR
- History > Topical History > History of LGBTQIA+
- Interdisciplinary Studies > Race and Ethnic Studies > Russian and Eastern European Studies
- Interdisciplinary Studies > Women's and Gender Studies > Gender and Violence
- Political Science > Comparative Politics > Russian Politics
- Political Science > International Relations > Human Rights
- Political Science > Introduction to Political Science > Political Sociology
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