Books for Lesbian Visibility Week

By Coll Rowe | April 14 2025 | Gender and Sexuality Studies

In honor of Lesbian Visibility Week, which takes place April 21st – April 27th, and Lesbian Visibility Day on April 26th, we are sharing books by and about lesbians, and their experiences and history.

Sister Outsider
Sister Outsider
Essays and Speeches
Audre Lorde
9780143134442

Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider celebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature, with a foreword by Mahogany L. Browne.

$28.00 US
Feb 25, 2020
Hardcover
208 Pages
Penguin Classics
Lesbian Love Story
Lesbian Love Story
A Memoir In Archives
Amelia Possanza
9781646221059

Lesbian Love Story is an intimate journey into the archives—uncovering the romances and role models written out of history and what their stories can teach us all about how to love.

$27.00 US
May 30, 2023
Hardcover
288 Pages
Catapult
Forcing the Spring
Forcing the Spring
Inside the Fight for Marriage Equality
Jo Becker
9780143127239

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.

$18.00 US
May 19, 2015
Paperback
496 Pages
Penguin Books
On Being Different
On Being Different
What It Means to Be a Homosexual
Merle Miller
9780143106968

The groundbreaking work on being homosexual in America—available only from Penguin Classics and with a new foreword by Dan Savage.

$15.00 US
Sep 25, 2012
Paperback
96 Pages
Penguin Classics
Black Girl, Call Home
Black Girl, Call Home
Jasmine Mans
9780593197141
A literary coming-of-age poetry collection, an ode to the places we call home, and a piercingly intimate deconstruction of daughterhood, Black Girl, Call Home is a love letter to the wandering black girl and a vital companion to any woman on a journey to find truth, belonging, and healing.
$18.00 US
Mar 09, 2021
Paperback
256 Pages
Berkley
One Life
One Life
Emma Brockes, Megan Rapinoe
9781984881182
Megan Rapinoe, Olympic gold medalist and two-time Women’s World Cup champion, has become a galvanizing force for social change; here, she urges all of us to take up the mantle, with actions big and small, to continue the fight for justice and equality.
$18.00 US
Sep 07, 2021
Paperback
240 Pages
Penguin Books
A Queer History of the United States
A Queer History of the United States
Michael Bronski
9780807044650

The first book to cover the entirety of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender history, from pre-1492 to the present.

$20.00 US
May 15, 2012
Paperback
312 Pages
Beacon Press
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