Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers (72 page)

Bisexuality; Depression and; Greenwich Village of the 1920s and; Harlem blacks in 1920s and; lesbian-feminists and; 1920s; 1930s; 1980s; roots of experimentation; wealthy women and

Bisexual support groups

Blacker the Berry, The
(Thurman)

Black lesbians.
See also specific persons

Blacks: homophobia among; white homosexuals in Harlem and

Blackwell, Alice Stone

Blackwell, Emily

Blues songs, Harlem homosexuals of the 1920s and

“Bluffs”

Blush Productions

Bohemianss

Bookpeople

Book publishing, feminist

Bookstores, women’s

Boston marriages

Bourdet, Edouard

Bowers v. Hardwick

Bowles, Jane

Bowles, Paul

Box-Car Bertha

Bradley, Katharine

Briggs, John

Briggs Initiative

Bright, Susie

Bronski, Michael

Brown, Rita Mae

Brown, Rusty

Bryant, Anita

Bryant, William Cullen

Bryn Mawr

Budapest, Z.

Buffet flats

Burning
(Chambers)

Burnton Widows, The
(McConnell)

Butch/femme roles: feminists and; Greenwich Village of the 1940s and; kinship structures and; lesbian-feminists and; minority lesbians and; 1930s slang and; 1940s; 1950s; 1980s; police harassment and; prisons and; sexual radicals and; wealthy lesbians and; working-class and young lesbians and

Butches; flipped; gay bars and; 1950s roles; post-feminist

Califia, Pat

Cameron, Barbara

Cannabilistic fantasies

Caprio, Frank

Captive, The

Carhart, John

Carpenter, Edward

Carpenter, Louisa Dupont

Casal, Mary

Casual sex

Catharsis, sadomasochism and

Cather, Willa

Catholic Church

Catt, Carrie Chapman

Chambers, Jane

Chauncey, George

Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York
(Peiss)

Cherry Grove

Chevalier, Julien

Chicago: 1920s bar scene in; 1930s bar scene in

Childhood homosexuality, Freud and

Childrens acceptance of

Children’s Hour, The
,

Chisholm, Shirley

Christian, Meg

Christian, Paula

Christopher, George

Churches, gay groups within

Civil rights movement

Civil War, female transvestites in

Clackum, Fannie Mae

Clarke, Edward

Clean and sober movement

Clenched Fists, Burning Crosses
(South)

Cleveland, Rose Elizabeth

Clift, Montgomery

Coastal cities, lesbian life in 1940s and

Colette

Colleges: McCarthy era persecution and; turn of the century.
See also
Women’s colleges

College Settlements Association

Comfort, Alex

Communal farms, separatists and

Communal living, lesbian-feminists and

Companionate marriage

Complex marriage

Confrontational tactics

Congenital theory: lesbians accepting; 1980s revival of.
See also
Sexual inversion

Consciousness-raising (CR); language and; radical lesbian-feminists and; sadomasochism and; women’s music and

Conservatisms

Contract with the World
(Rule)

Converse, Florence

Cook, Blanche

Cooper, Edith

Copper, Baba

Cornell

Cory, Donald Webster

Cotton Club

Council on Religion and the Homosexual

Country women

Cousins, Norman

Craigin, Elisabeth

Crawford, Joan

Credit unions, women’s

“Crunchies”

Cultural feminists; 1970s; 1980s; sexuality and; shared intimacy and

“Cures” 1940–50s

Cushier, Elizabeth

Cushman, Charlotte

Dark Laughter
(Anderson)

Darwinists

Daskam, Josephine Dodge

Daudet, Alphonse

Daughters of Bilitis

Davis, Allen

Davis, Elizabeth Gould

Davis, Katharine

Dell, Floyd

Demeter Flower, The
(Singer)

D’Emilio, John

Democratic National Convention, lesbian delegate to

Depression era; sexual freedom and; working women and

Devoted companions, lesbian sex between

Diana
(Frederics)

Diana Victrix
(Converse)

Dickinson, Anna

Dickinson, Robert Latou

Dickinson, Thomas

Direct action peace and environmental movements

Disabled lesbians

Dlugacz, Judy

Dobkin, Alix

Dodge, Mabel

Dog shows, lesbian couples at

Donisthorpe, Sheila

Donovan, Frances

Dos Passos, John

Double standard

Drag balls

Dreir, Mary

Dress: gay bars of 1950s and; lesbian-feminists and; middle-class lesbians and; 1940s; 1980s career women and; upper-class lesbians and; working-class women and