Preface / Sarah Dreher

Preface / Elana Dykewomon

Introduction: Lesbian Identity/Lesbian Communities/Lesbian Culture: Creating Our Survival / Julia Penelope and Susan J. Wolfe

pt. 1. Women Who Did Stand Alone

Map of Llangollen. Lesbian Herstory Storytelling / Michal Brody. Remembering as a Way of Life / Tee A. Corinne. A History of Lesbianism / Judy Grahn. The Lesbian Herstory Archives: A Statement of Cultural Self-Definition / Deborah Edel. New England Cemetery / Elana Dykewomon. Patience and Sarah / Isabel Miller. Prolong the Night / Renee Vivien. The Touch / Renee Vivien. The Well of Loneliness / Radclyffe Hall. Elsa: I Come With My Songs, The Autobiography of Elsa Gidlow / Elsa Gidlow. All Good Women / Valerie Miner. Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon / JEB. Hollandia '45 / Sarah Dreher. Mountain Moving Coffeehouse flyer. Beebo Brinker / Ann Bannon. Butch-Femme Relationships: Sexual Courage In the 1950s / Joan Nestle. Mabel Hampton / JEB. Zami: A New Spelling of My Name / Audre Lorde. Annie: 1958 / Merril Mushroom. Merril Mushroom, 1959. Rings, Zippo Light Up the Past / Lee Lynch. Cass, 1959: First Day of a Courtship / Merril Mushroom. Penny Stanley, 1959. for joan, in 1967 / Beth Karbe. Two Willow Chairs / Jess Wells

pt. 2. We Are Not As They Say. Adrienne Smith / Michal Brody. The Female Man / Joanna Russ. Femme at Heart / Woodwoman. Homophobia and Death in the Closet / Marilyn Murphy. Riverfinger Women / Elana Dykewomon. Josephine CRACKS under the pressure of deciding what to wear to meet Miriam's parents / Alison Bechdel. Gay Head / Alix Dobkin. Elizabethan Drama / Jorjet Harper. Crooked and Straight in Academia / Susan Wolfe and Julia Penelope. Postscribbles / Joanna Russ. Boots are being polished / Pat Parker. Louisa May Incest: A One-Act Play For Two Women / Carolyn Gage. Sister Gin / June Arnold. Two dykes with candle and labrys / Sudie Rakusin. IV. Carol, in the park, chewing on straws / Judy Grahn. Lesbian Metaphysics / Janet Aalfs. Lesbian Invisibility / Leslie Stewart. On My Way / Chrystos. to the women who weep / Chaia Zblocki Heller. The Fourth Daughter's Four Hundred Questions / Elana Dykewomon. Branded / Janet Aalfs. Letter to Claudia Brenner: In Memory of Rebecca Wight / Janet Aalfs. Trespassing / Valerie Miner. I'm not a girl / Judy Grahn. Words / Susan Sherman. Ya Don Wanna Eat Pussy / Chrystos. Dicks of America / Diane F. Germain. How can you tell a dyke? / Donna Allegra. Identity Crisis / Jennifer Camper. 1979: First National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights / JEB. How'm I sposta sit here and draw cartoons when there's a straight white guy RUNNING THE COUNTRY? / Diane DiMassa. The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle The Master's House / Audre Lorde. Six Pomegranate Seeds and One Lesson in Manners: A Piece About Straight Folks Who Don't Mind Gays, But ... / Elliott. More Ways to Wear Out Your Welcome / Noreen Stevens. ii / Cheryl Clarke. Asphalta / Morgan Grey and Julia Penelope. She Ain't Heavy, She's My Sister / Noreen Stevens. A Medal For Not Drowning / Amy Edgington. Dancing woman with apple and mask / Sudie Rakusin. Whole Cloth / Susan Stinson. Women, Lesbians and Prostitution: A Workingclass Dyke Speaks Out Against Buying Women for Sex / Toby Summer. tremors / Caryatis Cardea. Lesbian "Sex" / Marilyn Frye

pt. 3. New Ground. Cover for the 1st Edition of The Lesbian Path, ed. Margaret Cruikshank, 1980 / Tee Corinne. On Singing Women's Praises / Carolyn Gage. New Ground / Alix Dobkin. In This Place Lesbians Come First / Diane F. Germain. Posters of Power / Diane F. Germain. Poem of Affirmation / Elliott. Self-Portrait: Seeing Myself through Alice Walker's Eyes / Jean Weisinger. diving, i kiss / Elana Dykewomon. in the place where / Judy Grahn. Two Women.