Ann Bannon, the Glossary
Ann Weldy (born September 15, 1932), better known by her pen name Ann Bannon, is an American author who, from 1957 to 1962, wrote six lesbian pulp fiction novels known as The Beebo Brinker Chronicles.[1]
Table of Contents
109 relations: Alcoholism, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Allen Ginsberg, Archetype, Autobiography, Barbara Grier, Barbizon 63, Beebo Brinker, Before Stonewall, Book of the Month, Brigadoon, BroadwayWorld, Butch and femme, California, California State University, Sacramento, Camp (style), Censorship, Cleis Press, Curve (magazine), Elaine Williams, Emerald City, Fawcett Publications, Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives, Fraternities and sororities, French Liberation Army, Fresh Air, GLAAD, Gold Medal Books, Greenwich Village, HBO, Heterosexuality, Hinsdale, Illinois, Homophile movement, Howl (poem), I Am a Woman, Identity (social science), Ingrid Bergman, Interracial marriage, Jane Wagner, Jenifer Levin, Joan Nestle, Johnny Weissmuller, Joliet, Illinois, Journey to a Woman, Julie Ellis, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Katherine V. Forrest, Lambda Literary Foundation, Lesbian Herstory Archives, Lesbian pulp fiction, ... Expand index (59 more) »
Alcoholism
Alcoholism is the continued drinking of alcohol despite it causing problems.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (also known as Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 English children's novel by Lewis Carroll, a mathematics don at the University of Oxford.
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Allen Ginsberg
Irwin Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet and writer.
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Archetype
The concept of an archetype appears in areas relating to behavior, historical psychology, and literary analysis.
Autobiography
An autobiography, sometimes informally called an autobio, is a self-written biography of one's own life.
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Barbara Grier
Barbara Grier (November 4, 1933 – November 10, 2011) was an American writer and publisher. Ann Bannon and Barbara Grier are American lesbian writers.
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Barbizon 63
Barbizon 63 (formerly the Barbizon Hotel for Women and the Melrose Hotel) is a mostly residential condominium building at 140 East 63rd Street, at the southeast corner with Lexington Avenue, on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City.
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Beebo Brinker
Beebo Brinker is a lesbian pulp fiction novel written in 1962 by Ann Bannon (pseudonym of Ann Weldy).
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Before Stonewall
Before Stonewall: The Making of a Gay and Lesbian Community is a 1984 American documentary film about the LGBT community prior to the 1969 Stonewall riots.
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Book of the Month
Book of the Month (founded 1926) is a United States subscription-based e-commerce service that offers a selection of five to seven new hardcover books each month to its members.
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Brigadoon
Brigadoon is a musical with a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, and music by Frederick Loewe.
BroadwayWorld
BroadwayWorld is a theatre news website based in New York City covering Broadway, Off-Broadway, regional, and international theatre productions.
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Butch and femme
Butch and femme are masculine (butch) or feminine (femme) identities in the lesbian subculture that have associated traits, behaviors, styles, self-perception, and so on.
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California
California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.
California State University, Sacramento
California State University, Sacramento (CSUS, Sacramento State, or informally Sac State) is a public university in Sacramento, California.
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Camp (style)
Camp is an aesthetic style and sensibility that regards something as appealing because of perceived bad taste and ironic value.
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Censorship
Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication, or other information.
Cleis Press
Cleis Press is an American independent publisher of books in the areas of sexuality, erotica, feminism, gay and lesbian studies, gender studies, fiction, and human rights.
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Curve (magazine)
Curve is a global lesbian media project.
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Elaine Williams
Elaine Williams (December 28, 1932 - December 23, 1963) was an American lesbian pulp fiction author and editor of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Ann Bannon and Elaine Williams are American LGBT novelists and American lesbian writers.
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Emerald City
The Emerald City (sometimes called the City of Emeralds) is the capital city of the fictional Land of Oz in L. Frank Baum's Oz books, first described in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900).
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Fawcett Publications
Fawcett Publications was an American publishing company founded in 1919 in Robbinsdale, Minnesota by Wilford Hamilton "Captain Billy" Fawcett (1885–1940).
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Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives
Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives is a 1992 Canadian hybrid drama-documentary film about Canadian lesbians navigating their sexuality while homosexuality was still criminalized.
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Fraternities and sororities
In North America, fraternities and sororities (fraternitas and sororitas|lit.
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French Liberation Army
The French Liberation Army (Armée française de la Libération or AFL) was the reunified French Army that arose from the merging of the Armée d'Afrique with the prior Free French Forces (label or FFL) during World War II.
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Fresh Air
Fresh Air is an American radio talk show broadcast on National Public Radio stations across the United States since 1985.
GLAAD
GLAAD is an American non-governmental media monitoring organization.
Gold Medal Books
Gold Medal Books, launched by Fawcett Publications in 1950, was an American book publisher known for introducing paperback originals, a publishing innovation at the time.
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Greenwich Village
Greenwich Village, or simply the Village, is a neighborhood on the west side of Lower Manhattan in New York City, bounded by 14th Street to the north, Broadway to the east, Houston Street to the south, and the Hudson River to the west.
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HBO
Home Box Office (HBO) is an American pay television network, which is the flagship property of namesake parent-subsidiary Home Box Office, Inc., itself a unit owned by Warner Bros. Discovery.
Heterosexuality
Heterosexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction or sexual behavior between people of the opposite sex or gender.
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Hinsdale, Illinois
Hinsdale is a village in Cook and DuPage counties in the U.S. state of Illinois and one of the wealthiest communities of Illinois.
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Homophile movement
The homophile movement is a collective term for the main organisations and publications supporting and representing sexual minorities in the 1950s to 1960s around the world.
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Howl (poem)
"Howl", also known as "Howl for Carl Solomon", is a poem written by Allen Ginsberg in 1954–1955 and published in his 1956 collection Howl and Other Poems.
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I Am a Woman
I Am a Woman is a lesbian pulp fiction novel written in 1959 by Ann Bannon (pseudonym of Ann Weldy).
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Identity is the set of qualities, beliefs, personality traits, appearance, and/or expressions that characterize a person or a group.
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Ingrid Bergman
Ingrid Bergman (29 August 191529 August 1982) was a Swedish actress.
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Interracial marriage
Interracial marriage is a marriage involving spouses who belong to different races or racialized ethnicities.
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Jane Wagner
Jane Wagner (born February 26, 1935) is an American writer, director and producer. Ann Bannon and Jane Wagner are American lesbian writers.
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Jenifer Levin
Jenifer Levin (born October 31, 1955) is an American fiction writer, noted for her contributions to lesbian fiction. Ann Bannon and Jenifer Levin are American lesbian writers.
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Joan Nestle
Joan Nestle (born May 12, 1940) is a Lambda Award winning writer and editor and a founder of the Lesbian Herstory Archives, which holds, among other things, everything she has ever written. Ann Bannon and Joan Nestle are American lesbian writers.
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Johnny Weissmuller
Johnny Weissmuller (born Johann Peter Weißmüller; June 2, 1904 – January 20, 1984) was a Austro-Hungarian-born - American Olympic swimmer, water polo player and actor.
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Joliet, Illinois
Joliet is a city in Will and Kendall counties in the U.S. state of Illinois, southwest of Chicago.
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Journey to a Woman
Journey to a Woman is a lesbian pulp fiction novel written in 1960 by Ann Bannon (pseudonym of Ann Weldy).
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Julie Ellis
Julie Ellis (February 21, 1919 – February 15, 2006) was an early lesbian pulp fiction author of the 1960s, writing pro-lesbian romance and erotica under varied pseudonyms for Midwood-Tower Publications. Ann Bannon and Julie Ellis are American LGBT novelists.
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Kappa Kappa Gamma
Kappa Kappa Gamma (ΚΚΓ), also known simply as Kappa or KKG, is a collegiate sorority founded at Monmouth College in Monmouth, Illinois, United States.
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Katherine V. Forrest
Katherine V. Forrest (born 1939) is a Canadian-born American writer, best known for her novels about lesbian police detective Kate Delafield. Ann Bannon and Katherine V. Forrest are American lesbian writers.
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Lambda Literary Foundation
The Lambda Literary Foundation (also known as Lambda Literary) is an American LGBTQ literary organization whose mission is to nurture and advocate for LGBTQ writers, elevating the impact of their words to create community, preserve their legacies, and affirm the value of LGBTQ stories and lives.
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Lesbian Herstory Archives
The Lesbian Herstory Archives (LHA) is a New York City-based archive, community center, and museum dedicated to preserving lesbian history, located in Park Slope, Brooklyn.
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Lesbian pulp fiction
Lesbian pulp fiction is a genre of lesbian literature that refers to any mid-20th century paperback novel or pulp magazine with overtly lesbian themes and content.
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LGBT history
LGBT history dates back to the first recorded instances of same-sex love and sexuality of ancient civilizations, involving the history of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) peoples and cultures around the world.
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LGBT History Month
LGBT History Month is an annual month-long observance of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender history, and the history of the gay rights and related civil rights movements.
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LGBT movements
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) movements are social movements that advocate for LGBT people in society.
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Lily Tomlin
Mary Jean "Lily" Tomlin (born September 1, 1939) is an American actress, comedian, writer, singer, and producer.
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Linguistics
Linguistics is the scientific study of language.
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Malcolm L. Lazin
Malcolm L. Lazin (born December 5, 1943) is an American social activist, prosecutor, entrepreneur and educator.
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Marijane Meaker
Marijane Agnes Meaker (May 27, 1927 – November 21, 2022) was an American writer who, along with Tereska Torres, was credited with launching the lesbian pulp fiction genre, the only accessible novels on that theme in the 1950s. Ann Bannon and Marijane Meaker are 20th-century pseudonymous writers, American LGBT novelists, American lesbian writers and Pseudonymous women writers.
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Mattachine Society
The Mattachine Society, founded in 1950, was an early national gay rights organization in the United States, preceded by several covert and open organizations, such as Chicago's Society for Human Rights.
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Mental disorder
A mental disorder, also referred to as a mental illness, a mental health condition, or a psychiatric disability, is a behavioral or mental pattern that causes significant distress or impairment of personal functioning.
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Mills & Boon
Mills & Boon is a romance imprint of British publisher Harlequin UK Ltd.
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Mortimer Rare Book Collection
The Mortimer Rare Book Collection (MRBC) is the rare books collection of Smith College.
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Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome
Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) is a disabling chronic illness.
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Naiad Press
Naiad Press (1973–2003) was an American publishing company, one of the first dedicated to lesbian literature.
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NPR
National Public Radio (NPR, stylized as npr) is an American public broadcasting organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California.
Odd Girl Out (novel)
Odd Girl Out is a lesbian pulp fiction novel written in 1957 by Ann Bannon (pseudonym of Ann Weldy), the first in a series of pulp fiction novels that eventually came to be known as The Beebo Brinker Chronicles.
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Off-Broadway
An off-Broadway theatre is any professional theatre venue in New York City with a seating capacity between 100 and 499, inclusive.
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Off-off-Broadway
Off-off-Broadway theaters are smaller New York City theaters than Broadway and off-Broadway theaters, and usually have fewer than 100 seats.
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OmniScriptum
Omniscriptum Publishing Group, formerly known as VDM Verlag Dr.
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One Institute
Founded in 1952, One Institute (formerly One, Inc., and One Archives Foundation), is the oldest active LGBTQ+ organization in the United States, dedicated to telling LGBTQ+ history and stories through education, arts, and social justice programs.
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Passing (sociology)
Passing is the ability of a person to be regarded as a member of an identity group or category, such as racial identity, ethnicity, caste, social class, sexual orientation, gender, religion, age and/or disability status, that is often different from their own.
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Patricia Highsmith
Patricia Highsmith (born Mary Patricia Plangman; January 19, 1921 – February 4, 1995) was an American novelist and short story writer widely known for her psychological thrillers, including her series of five novels featuring the character Tom Ripley. Ann Bannon and Patricia Highsmith are 20th-century pseudonymous writers, American LGBT novelists, American lesbian writers and Pseudonymous women writers.
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Peabody Awards
The George Foster Peabody Awards (or simply Peabody Awards or the Peabodys) program, named for the American businessman and philanthropist George Peabody, honor what are described as the most powerful, enlightening, and invigorating stories in all of television, radio, and online media.
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia, colloquially referred to as Philly, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the sixth-most populous city in the nation, with a population of 1,603,797 in the 2020 census.
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Physical education
Physical education, often abbreviated to Phys.
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Pocket Books
Pocket Books is a division of Simon & Schuster that primarily publishes paperback books.
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Prequel
A prequel is a literary, dramatic or cinematic work whose story precedes that of a previous work, by focusing on events that occur before the original narrative.
Prison
A prison, also known as a jail, gaol, penitentiary, detention center, correction center, correctional facility, remand center, hoosegow, or slammer is a facility where people are imprisoned against their will and denied their liberty under the authority of the state, generally as punishment for various crimes.
Professor
Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an academic rank at universities and other post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries.
Psychoanalysis
PsychoanalysisFrom Greek: +. is a set of theories and therapeutic techniques"What is psychoanalysis? Of course, one is supposed to answer that it is many things — a theory, a research method, a therapy, a body of knowledge.
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Pulp magazine
Pulp magazines (also referred to as "the pulps") were inexpensive fiction magazines that were published from 1896 until around 1955.
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Queer studies
Queer studies, sexual diversity studies, or LGBT studies is the study of topics relating to sexual orientation and gender identity usually focusing on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, gender dysphoric, asexual, queer, questioning, and intersex people and cultures.
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Radclyffe Hall
Marguerite Antonia Radclyffe Hall (12 August 1880 – 7 October 1943) was an English poet and author, best known for the novel The Well of Loneliness, a groundbreaking work in lesbian literature. Ann Bannon and Radclyffe Hall are 20th-century pseudonymous writers and Pseudonymous women writers.
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Roth v. United States
Roth v. United States, 354 U.S. 476 (1957), along with its companion case Alberts v. California, was a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States which redefined the constitutional test for determining what constitutes obscene material unprotected by the First Amendment.
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Saints & Sinners LGBTQ+ Literary Festival
Saints and Sinners LGBTQ+ Literary Festival is an alternative literary festival specializing in LGBTQ+ literature.
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Sally Singer
Sally M. Singer (born December 23, 1930) is an American writer who penned lesbian pulp fiction from the late 1950s through the mid-1970s.
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San Francisco Board of Supervisors
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors is the legislative body within the government of the City and County of San Francisco in the U.S. state of California.
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Self-hatred
Self-hatred is personal self-loathing (hatred of oneself) or low self-esteem which may lead to self-harm.
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Spring Fire
Spring Fire, is a 1952 paperback novel written by Marijane Meaker, under the pseudonym "Vin Packer".
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Stanford University
Stanford University (officially Leland Stanford Junior University) is a private research university in Stanford, California.
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Stereotype
In social psychology, a stereotype is a generalized belief about a particular category of people.
Stonewall riots
The Stonewall riots, also known as the Stonewall uprising, Stonewall rebellion, or simply Stonewall, were a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn, in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City.
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Subplot
In fiction, a subplot or side story is a secondary strand of the plot that is a supporting side story for any story or for the main plot.
Suicide
Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death.
Susan Stryker
Susan O'Neal Stryker (born 1961) is an American professor, historian, author, filmmaker, and theorist whose work focuses on gender and human sexuality. Ann Bannon and Susan Stryker are American lesbian writers.
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Tee Corinne
Tee A. Corinne (November 3, 1943 – August 27, 2006) was an American photographer, author, and editor notable for the portrayal of sexuality in her artwork. Ann Bannon and Tee Corinne are American lesbian writers.
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Tereska Torrès
Tereska Torrès (born Tereska Szwarc; 3 September 192020 September 2012) was a French writer known for the 1950 book Women's Barracks, the first "original paperback bestseller." In 2008 historians credited the republished book as the first pulp fiction book published in America to candidly address lesbian relationships, although Torrès did not agree with this analysis.
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Terry Gross
Terry Gross (born February 14, 1951) is an American journalist who is the host and co-executive producer of Fresh Air, an interview-based radio show produced by WHYY-FM in Philadelphia and distributed nationally by NPR.
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The Daily Beast
The Daily Beast is an American news website focused on politics, media, and pop culture.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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The Well of Loneliness
The Well of Loneliness is a lesbian novel by British author Radclyffe Hall that was first published in 1928 by Jonathan Cape.
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United States Postal Inspection Service
The United States Postal Inspection Service (USPIS), or the Postal Inspectors, is the federal law enforcement arm of the United States Postal Service.
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University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC, U of I, Illinois, or University of Illinois) is a public land-grant research university in the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area, Illinois, United States.
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Valerie Taylor (novelist)
Valerie Taylor (September 7, 1913 – October 22, 1997) was an American author of books published in the lesbian pulp fiction genre, as well as poetry and novels after the "golden age" of lesbian pulp fiction.
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Victorian morality
Victorian morality is a distillation of the moral views of the middle class in 19th-century Britain, the Victorian era.
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Washington (state)
Washington, officially the State of Washington, is the westernmost state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.
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Women in the Shadows
Women in the Shadows is a lesbian pulp fiction novel written in 1959 by Ann Bannon (pseudonym of Ann Weldy).
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Women's Barracks
Women's Barracks: The Frank Autobiography of a French Girl Soldier is a classic work of lesbian pulp fiction by French writer Tereska Torrès published in 1950.
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Women's studies
Women's studies is an academic field that draws on feminist and interdisciplinary methods to place women's lives and experiences at the center of study, while examining social and cultural constructs of gender; systems of privilege and oppression; and the relationships between power and gender as they intersect with other identities and social locations such as race, sexual orientation, socio-economic class, and disability.
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Yvonne MacManus
Yvonne Christine MacManus (March 18, 1931 - March 26, 2002) was an American novelist specializing in lesbian fiction and science fiction. Ann Bannon and Yvonne MacManus are American lesbian writers.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Bannon
Also known as Ann Weldy, Beebo Brinker Chronicles, The Beebo Brinker Chronicles.
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