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Twilight Girl

by Della Martin
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The swaggering butches and dolled-up femmes of this 1961 lesbian pulp novel experience the guilt, thrills, and wonder of forbidden love.

"She knew why they danced with such gay desperation."

A budding butch in the Brylcreem era, Lorraine "Lon" Harris fantasizes about a South Pacific island full of women, where everyone will be free and accepting, and she'll never have to wear an eyelet blouse again. Spurned by her high school English teacher, Lon turns to a new friend, the brash, purple-haired Violet, who draws Lon into the lesbian underworld of suburban Los Angeles, to the sordid 28 Percent Club, a private bar where those with "contaminated passions" cling to each other. Here, among the swaggering butches and dolled-up femmes, Lon will discover herself. And here she will first lay eyes on brilliant, lovely Mavis, a black jazz pianist and the girlfriend of wealthy Sassy Gregg, whose heavy bracelets may as well be brass knuckles where Lon is concerned.
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Publisher: Cleis Press

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  • Release date: May 1, 2006

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  • ISBN: 9781573446358
  • File size: 2082 KB
  • Release date: May 1, 2006

EPUB ebook

  • ISBN: 9781573446358
  • File size: 2082 KB
  • Release date: May 1, 2006

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subjects

Fiction Literature Romance LGBTQIA+ (Fiction)

Languages

English

The swaggering butches and dolled-up femmes of this 1961 lesbian pulp novel experience the guilt, thrills, and wonder of forbidden love.

"She knew why they danced with such gay desperation."

A budding butch in the Brylcreem era, Lorraine "Lon" Harris fantasizes about a South Pacific island full of women, where everyone will be free and accepting, and she'll never have to wear an eyelet blouse again. Spurned by her high school English teacher, Lon turns to a new friend, the brash, purple-haired Violet, who draws Lon into the lesbian underworld of suburban Los Angeles, to the sordid 28 Percent Club, a private bar where those with "contaminated passions" cling to each other. Here, among the swaggering butches and dolled-up femmes, Lon will discover herself. And here she will first lay eyes on brilliant, lovely Mavis, a black jazz pianist and the girlfriend of wealthy Sassy Gregg, whose heavy bracelets may as well be brass knuckles where Lon is concerned.
Expand title description text
Fiction Literature Romance LGBTQIA+ (Fiction)
  • Details

    Publisher:
    Cleis Press

    Kindle Book
    Release date: May 1, 2006

    OverDrive Read
    ISBN: 9781573446358
    File size: 2082 KB
    Release date: May 1, 2006

    EPUB ebook
    ISBN: 9781573446358
    File size: 2082 KB
    Release date: May 1, 2006

  • Creators
  • Formats
    Kindle Book
    OverDrive Read
    EPUB ebook
  • Languages
    English
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