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• 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)

• Michael Field, by Mary Sturgeon (Gutenberg ebook)

• Ladies of Llangollen (Hugh Jones, 1909), by J. Prichard (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Account of the Ladies of Llangollen, by J. Prichard (Gutenberg ebook)

• 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)

• 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)

• Employment discrimination against gay men and lesbians : hearing before the Subcommittee on Select Education and Civil Rights of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, second session, hearing held in New York, NY, June 20, 1994. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1994), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Select Education and Civil Rights (page images at HathiTrust)

• Lover (New York and London: New York University Press, c1993), by Bertha Harris (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)
• Stone Butch Blues (20th anniversary author edition, c2014), by Leslie Feinberg (PDF with commentary at lesliefeinberg.net)
• The Well of Loneliness (author died 1943; 1928), by Radclyffe Hall (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• The Unlit Lamp (c1924), by Radclyffe Hall
  • HTML at Gutenberg Australia
  • text at Gutenberg Australia
• The History of Sir Richard Calmady, by Lucas Malet (HTML at Indiana)
• Among the daughters : a novel (Coward-McCann, 1955), by Angna Enters (page images at HathiTrust)
• A strange railroad wreck (Broadway, 1904), by George Collins (page images at HathiTrust)
• La dernière journée de Sapphô : roman (Société du Mercure de France, 1901), by Gabriel Faure (page images at HathiTrust)
• La jeunesse de Sappho (M. Glomeau, 1911), by Jean Redni (page images at HathiTrust)
• The naked storm (A Lion Book, 1952), by Simon Eisner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Hochzeit der Esther Franzenius: Roman (in German), by Toni Schwabe (Gutenberg ebook)
• Jill, Vol. 2 (of 2), by E. A. Dillwyn (Gutenberg ebook)
• Jill, Vol. 1 (of 2), by E. A. Dillwyn (Gutenberg ebook)
• An Anglo-American Alliance: A Serio-Comic Romance and Forecast of the Future, by Gregory Casparian (Gutenberg ebook)
• The History of Sir Richard Calmady: A Romance, by Lucas Malet (Gutenberg ebook)

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

• La Raucourt & ses amis : e tude historique des moeurs sapphiques au XVIIIe sie cle (H. Daragon, 1909), by Henri Vial (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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

• Scientific Workshop on Lesbian Health 2000 : steps for implementing the IOM report (Dept. of Health and Human Services, Office on Women's Health, 2000), by D.C.) Scientific Workshop on Lesbian Health (2000 : Washington, Institute of Medicine (U.S.), and United States. Department of Health and Human Services. Office on Women's Health (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)

• 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)
• Employment Nondiscrimination Act of 2007 (U.S. G.P.O., 2007), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Employment Non-Discrimination Act of 2007 (H.R. 2015) : hearing before the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor and Pensions, Committee on Education and Labor, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, first session, hearing held in Washington, DC, September 5, 2007. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2008), by Employment United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Health (page images at HathiTrust)

• Civil Rights Amendments Act of 1979 : Hearing before the Subcommittee on Employment Opportunities of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Ninety-sixth Congress, second session, H.R 2074 ... hearing held in San Francisco, Calif., October 10, 1980. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1981), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Employment Opportunities (page images at HathiTrust)
• The limits to union : same-sex marriage and the politics of civil rights (University of Michigan Press, 2002), by Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Employment Non-Discrimination Act of 1994 : hearing of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, second session, on S. 2238 to prohibit employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, July 29, 1994. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1994), by United States Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources (page images at HathiTrust)

• On a Grey Thread (2019 reprint; original text c1923), by Elsa Gidlow (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Atthis das Rosenmädchen : sapphische Oden und lesbische Lieder nach dem Griechischen (Rosenbaum & Hart, 1887), by Emil Steiner (page images at HathiTrust)

• Anti-gay violence : hearing before the Subcommittee on Criminal Justice of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, second session ... October 9, 1986. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1987), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Criminal Justice (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)

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