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Organized by a feminist collective in the mid-1970s, the bookstore served as a safe space for lesbians and other Ann Arbor women until the early…
Colleges and Universities
During the nineteenth century romantic friendships among women were considered as innocent and non-sexual. By the early 1900s, however, passionate…
D.H. Forsyth
Couples
Women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries sometimes tried to pass as men for economic reasons. Some couples like the one pictured…
Activism
Trish Brown narrowly lost her re-election bid to the Wayne-Westland School Board in a nasty campaign in which her sexuality was targeted with "Take a…
African Americans
Reverend Renee McCoy has played a prominent role in lesbian and gay activism both locally and nationally as founding pastor of Full Truth Unity…
African Americans
Born in Springfield, IL, Ellis grew up to host popular house parties for African American lesbians and gay men in Detroit during the 1940s and 1950s,…
Books
Through fragments of fiction, poetry, and family recollections, Beth Brant examines her female, Native American, lesbian, and working class…
Bars and Nightclubs
In her pioneering University of Michigan dissertation, Gayle Rubin traces the history and style of San Francisco's leather community from Marlon…
Entertainment
This cassette was recorded live at the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, and reflects how women's music has been used to forge community among…
Colleges and Universities
Two female students caused a scandal at the University of Michigan in 1953 with their defiant expressions of same-sex desire and were forced to leave…