Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers (73 page)

Erotic fantasy

Eroticism.
See also
Sexual radicals

Erotic love, past centuries

Essentialists

Etheridge, Melissa

Eugenics movement

Evolution, theories of

Fairbanks, Douglas, Jr.

Family Values

Farewell to Arms, A
(Hemingway)

Fat lesbians

Feldman, Maxine

“Felipa” (Woolson)

Female seminaries

Feminine mystique

Feminism; middle-class lesbians and; nineteenth-century; 1940s; reawakening; romantic friendship and; sexologists and; sexual freaks and.
See also
Lesbian-feminists

Femmes.
See also
Butch/ femme roles

Field, Michael

Fields, Mary

Financial independence.
See
Economic independence

First Sex, The
(Davis)

Fish queens

“Fluff”

Forel, August

Fox, The
(Lawrence)

Frederics, Diana

Freedman, Estelle

Freeman, Mary Wilkins

French erotic novels

French literature

Freud, Sigmund

Freudians

Friedan, Betty

Front marriages

Frye, Ellen

Gabrielson, Guy George

Garden of Eden, The
(Hemingway)

Garrett, Mary

Gay and Lesbian Democratic Clubs

Gay bars; alcoholism and; butch/femme roles and; class wars and; dangers of; lesbian singers in; middle-class lesbians and; 1930s; 1950s; 1980s; police harassment and; undercover agents in; working-class lesbians and; World War II and; young lesbians and

Gay liberation movement

Gay men: class mixing; front marriages to; heterogenderal pattern; lesbian-feminists and; lesbian unity with in 1980s; radical movement of 1960s; radical sexuality and; sexologists and; wealthy

Gay pride parades

Gay publications, revolution and

Gay revolution: explosion of; lesbian-feminists and; quiet beginnings

Gay rights bills

Gearhart, Sally

Gender behavior, inappropriate

Gender-dysphoria

Gerontology

Gittings, Barbara

Glamour dyke

God of Vengeance

Goldman, Emma

Gorman, Harry

Government jobs, dismissals from during McCarthy era

Grahn, Judy

Greenwich Village: butch/femme roles and; gay bars in; 1920s

Gribble, Henry

Grimke, Angelina Weld

Group, The
(McCarthy)

Gwinn, Mamie

Hall, Radclyffe

Hamilton, Alice

Hampton, Mabel

Hannah, George

Hapgood, Hutchins

Harlem: black lesbians in; white slumming in

Hart, Alberta Lucille

Hays, Matilda

Hellman, Lillian

Hemingway, Ernest

Henry, George

Hickok, Lorena

Hippie phenomenon: communal life and; 1960s

Hoboess

Holman, Libby

Home to Harlem
(McKay)

Homophile Action League

Homophile groups, politically aware

Homophile League of New York

Homophobia; 1920s; 1950s-60s 1970s

Homosexuality, “cure” for.
See also
Gay men; Lesbian(s)

Homosexual rights issues, Germany and

Hosmer, Harriet

Howard, William Lee

Hudson, Lee

Hull, Helen

Hull House

Huneker, James

Hunter, Alberta

Idaho, Bertha

Insane asylums

Intellectuals, in 1920s

“In the Life”

Inversion sexuelle
(Chevalier)

Irwin, Elisabeth

Jackson, Bessie

Jenny, John

Jenny, Louisa Dupont Carpenter

Johns Hopkins

Johnston, Jill

Joy of Sex, The
(Comfort)

Jungian therapists, lesbian “cures” and

Kaplan, Helen

Kelley, Florence

Kerwinieo, Ralph (née Cora Anderson)

Kiki lesbians.
See also
Middle-class lesbians; Upper-class lesbians

King, Bessie

Kinsey, Alfred

Kinship structures, butch/femme roles and

Koertge, Noretta

Korean War

Krafft-Ebing, Richard von

Ladder, The

Ladies Almanack
(Barnes)

Lait, Jack

Land trusts

Lang, K. D.

Language: consciousness raising and; sexist

Laporte, Rita

Las Buenas Amigas

Lavender Blue Productions

Lavender color, association with lesbianism

Lavender Jane Loves Women

Lawrence, D. H.

Leave a Light On for Me
(Swallow)

Leftists, homophobia during McCarthy era and

Legion of Decency

Lesbian(s): class mixing and; of color; existentialist; 1920s; 1930s; 1940s; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s and; past centuries; post-World War II; scientific classification of; self-definitions of; sexologists’ definition of; as sexual freaks; turn-of-the-century American writers on; twentieth century concepts;

Lesbian archives

Lesbian bars.
See
Gay bars

Lesbian chic: 1920s; 1980s; roots of

Lesbian continuum

Lesbian culture

Lesbian-feminists; bisexuality and; blueprints for culture; butch/femme roles and; class divisions and; drab-stylelessness of; economic independence and; educational levels/Z36; factionalism and; gay men and; media for culture building; middle-class lesbians and; minority lesbians and; 1970s; 1980s changes; 1980s conservatism and; older lesbians and; political correctness and; radicalism and; relationships with other groups; self-sufficiency and; separatism and; sexuality and; spiritual care and; successes of; women’s movement and

Lesbian health care

Lesbian in America, The
(Cory)

Lesbian Nations

Lesbian revolutions: 1960s; 1970s

Lesbian sex: between devoted companions; relative infrequency of.
See also
Sexuality

Lesbian sex warss

Lesbian slangs

Lesbian styles

Lesbian subcultures; bars and; military and; 1930s; 1940s government-sponsored; 1950s and ’60s; 1980s diversity in; Greenwich Village of the 1920s and; persecution of the 1950s and; working class in 1920s and; World War II and

Lesbian Tide

Le Sueur, Lucille

Levin, Jennifer

Lewis, Edith

Lillie, Beatrice

“Lipsticks”

Literature about lesbians; blacks writing about whites; lesbian-feminists and; 1920s; 1930s anti-lesbianism and; 1980s; sexual revolution and.
See also specific works

Living Sober conventions

Lobdell, Lucy Ann

Lombroso, Cesare

“Long Arm, The” (Freeman)

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Look Me in the Eye
(McDonald)

Look Under the Hawthorne
(Frye)

Lorde, Audre

Los Angeles, gay bars in 1950s and

Loulan, joann

Loveliest of Friends
(Donisthorpe)

Luppies (lesbian yuppies)

Lynch, Lee

Lynd, Helen

Lynn, Kenneth

Lyon, Phyllis

MacLane, Mary

Madonna

Magazines: lesbian porno; lesbian-feminists and; sexual revolution and

Male homosexuals.
See
Gay men

Ma Rainey

March Hares

Mariness homosexual policy and

Marks, Jeanette

Marot, Helen

Marriage to men: economic dependency and; educated women in nineteenth century and; front/120; 1930s

Marriage to other women: black lesbians of the 1920s and; 1980s return to; open

Married women, lesbian liaisons and

Martin, Del

Masons and orders

Matriarchal religion

Matriarchists

Mattachine

McCarthy, Eugene

McCarthy, Joseph

McCarthy, Mary

McCarthy era

McClung, Isabelle