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• On a Grey Thread (2019 reprint; original text c1923), by Elsa Gidlow (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Masquerade: Queer Poetry in America to the End of World War II (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, c2004), ed. by Jim Elledge (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Because the Boss Belongs to Us: Queer Femmes on Bruce Springsteen (one-time zine; Somerville, MA: The editor, 2011), ed. by Alana Kumbier, contrib. by Christine Bylund, Maggie Cee, Kate Drabinski, Emily Drabinski, Leslie Freeman, and Milo Miller (page images at qzap.org)
• The Transsexual Empire: The Making of the She-Male (reissued with a new introduction; New York: Teachers College Press, 1994), by Janice G. Raymond (PDF at janiceraymond.com)

• Bisexuality and the Challenge to Lesbian Politics: Sex, Loyalty, and Revolution (New York and London: New York University Press, c1995), by Paula C. Rust (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• Adventures of the Mind: The Memoirs of Natalie Clifford Barney (New York and London: New York University Press, 1992), by Natalie Clifford Barney, ed. by John Spalding Gatton (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• You're Not from Around Here, Are You? A Lesbian in Small-Town America (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, c2001), by Louise A. Blum (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
• The Stone Wall: An Autobiography (Chicago: Eyncourt Press, 1930), by Mary Casal (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Waiting for the Call: From Preacher's Daughter to Lesbian Mom (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by Jacqueline Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)

• You're Not from Around Here, Are You? A Lesbian in Small-Town America (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, c2001), by Louise A. Blum (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• Human Rights, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in the Commonwealth: Struggles for Decriminalisation and Change (London: University of London, School of Advanced Study, Human Rights Consortium, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, 2018), ed. by Corinne Lennox and Matthew Waites (PDF with commentary at Humanities Digital Library)

• Human Rights, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in the Commonwealth: Struggles for Decriminalisation and Change (London: University of London, School of Advanced Study, Human Rights Consortium, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, 2018), ed. by Corinne Lennox and Matthew Waites (PDF with commentary at Humanities Digital Library)

• Lover (New York and London: New York University Press, c1993), by Bertha Harris (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)
• Two Novels: Development and Two Selves (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, c2000), by Bryher, contrib. by Joanne Winning (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
• Stone Butch Blues (20th anniversary author edition, c2014), by Leslie Feinberg (PDF with commentary at lesliefeinberg.net)
• The Well of Loneliness (1928), by Radclyffe Hall
  • HTML at Gutenberg Australia
  • text at Gutenberg Australia
• The Unlit Lamp (c1924), by Radclyffe Hall
  • HTML at Gutenberg Australia
  • text at Gutenberg Australia
• The Naked Storm (published under "Simon Eisner" pseudonym; New York: Lion Book, 1952), by C. M. Kornbluth (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The History of Sir Richard Calmady, by Lucas Malet (HTML at Indiana)

• Mademoiselle Giraud, My Wife (Chicago: Laird and Lee, 1892), by Adolphe Belot, trans. by A. D., contrib. by Émile Zola (page images at HathiTrust)

• Lesbian Health: Current Assessment and Directions for the Future, ed. by Andrea L. Solarz (page images and partial HTML at NAP)

• Lesbian Health: Current Assessment and Directions for the Future, ed. by Andrea L. Solarz (page images and partial HTML at NAP)

• Bisexuality and the Challenge to Lesbian Politics: Sex, Loyalty, and Revolution (New York and London: New York University Press, c1995), by Paula C. Rust (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)
• American Homo: Community and Perversity (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998), by Jeffrey Escoffier (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• Amazon Quarterly (US lesbian feminist arts journal, issues online 1972-1975) (partial serial archives)

• Freedom to Differ: The Shaping of the Gay and Lesbian Struggle for Civil Rights (New York and London: New York University Press, c1998), by Diane Helene Miller (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• The Empty Closet (full serial archives)

• QNotes (partial serial archives)

• The Lavender Vote: Lesbians, Gay Men, and Bisexuals in American Electoral Politics (New York and London: New York University Press, c1996), by Mark Hertzog (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• American Homo: Community and Perversity (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998), by Jeffrey Escoffier (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• Queer Livability: German Sexual Sciences and Life Writing (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2023), by Ina Linge (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• QNotes (partial serial archives)

• The Change: My Great American, Postindustrial, Midlife Crisis Tour, by Lori Soderlind (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• Bisexuality and the Challenge to Lesbian Politics: Sex, Loyalty, and Revolution (New York and London: New York University Press, c1995), by Paula C. Rust (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• Lesbian Connection (selected issues, 1974-1989) (partial serial archives)

• The Limits to Union: Same-Sex Marriage and the Politics of Civil Rights (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2002), by Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• You're Not from Around Here, Are You? A Lesbian in Small-Town America (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, c2001), by Louise A. Blum (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• Waiting for the Call: From Preacher's Daughter to Lesbian Mom (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by Jacqueline Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)

• Strangers to the Law: Gay People on Trial (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1998), by Lisa Keen and Suzanne B. Goldberg (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• Public Scandals: Sexual Orientation and Criminal Law in Romania, by Human Rights Watch (Organization) and International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (HTML at hrw.org)

• The Queer Limit of Black Memory: Black Lesbian Literature and Irresolution (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by Matt Richardson (PDF at Ohio State)
• Sex Variant Women in Literature: A Historical and Quantitative Survey (New York et al.: Vantage Press, c1956), by Jeannette H. Foster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reconsidering the Emergence of the Gay Novel in English and German (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 2016), by James Patrick Wilper
  • PDF at oapen.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Lewd and Notorious: Female Transgression in the Eighteenth Century (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2003), ed. by Katharine Kittredge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dangerous Intimacies: Toward a Sapphic History of the British Novel (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1997), by Lisa L. Moore (page images at HathiTrust)

• Black Lesbians in the 70's and Before: An at Home Tour at the Lesbian Herstory Archives (Brooklyn, NY: Lesbian Herstory Archives, 2010), by Shawnta Smith (page images at qzap.org)

• Liza's Monday and Other Poems (Boone, NC: Appalachian Consortium Press, c1986), by Bettie M. Sellers (multiple formats at appstate.edu)
• Female Poems on Several Occasions, by Ephelia (PDF at Plymouth State)
• Louisa: A Poetical Novel, in Four Epistles (fifth edition; London: Printed for T. Cadell, and sold by Mr. Morgan, at Litchfield, 1792), by Anna Seward (frame-dependent HTML at cdlib.org)
• Quelques Portraits-Sonnets de Femmes (in French; Paris: Société d'Éditions Littéraires et Artistiques, 1900), by Natalie Clifford Barney, illust. by Carolus-Duran and Alice Pike Barney
  • scribbed-in reprint: multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • scribbled-in reprint (different copy from above): page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Records of Woman, With Other Poems (second edition; Edinburgh: W. Blackwood; London: T. Cadell, 1828), by Mrs. Hemans (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Records of Woman, With Other Poems (New York: W. B. Gilley, 1828), by Mrs. Hemans (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Three Women (popular edition; London: Gay and Hancock, 1909), by Ella Wheeler Wilcox (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Three Women (Chicago; New York : W.B. Conkey Co., 1897), by Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Rape of the Lock, by Alexander Pope (HTML at jacklynch.net)
• Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum, by Aemilia Lanyer
  • HTML at Arizona
  • HTML at Renascence Editions
• Specimens of British Poetesses, Selected and Chronologically Arranged (London: T. Rodd and S. Prowett, 1825), ed. by Alexander Dyce (multiple formats at Google)
• Specimens of British Poetesses, Selected and Chronologically Arranged (London: T. Rodd, 1827), ed. by Alexander Dyce (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Floure and the Leafe, The Assemblie of Ladies, and The Isle of Ladies, ed. by Derek Albert Pearsall, contrib. by Geoffrey Chaucer (HTML at Rochester)
• The Heroides, by Ovid, trans. by A. S. Kline (HTML at poetryintranslation.com)
• Heroides and Amores (in English and Latin; London: W. Heinemann; New York: Macmillan, 1914), by Ovid, trans. by Grant Showerman (multiple formats at archive.org)

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