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Lesbian love story : a memoir in archives / Amelia Possanza.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Catapult, 2023Edition: First Catapult editionDescription: 276 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781646221059
  • 1646221052
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
The names for love: Mary Casal and Juno (1892-1928) -- In the life: Mabel Hampton and Lillian Foster (1932-1978) -- A golf league of her own: Babe Didrikson Zaharias and Betty Dodd (1950-1956) -- On the island of lesbians: Sappho and Anactoria (floruit 595 BC) -- Who wears the pants? Rusty Brown and Jerry (1951-1979) -- The lesbian-ruled world: Gloria Anzaldúa, Cherrie Moraga, and lesbian community (1977-1981) -- A lesbian's best friend: Amy Hoffman and Mike Riegle (1980-1992).
Summary: "When Amelia Possanza moved to Brooklyn to build a life of her own, she found herself surrounded by queer stories: she read them on landmark placards, overheard them on the pool deck when she joined the world's largest LGBTQ swim team, and even watched them on TV in her cockroach-infested apartment. These stories inspired her to seek out lesbians throughout history who could become her role models, in romance and in life. Centered around seven love stories for the ages, this is Possanza's journey into the archives to recover the personal histories of lesbians in the twentieth century: who they were, how they loved, why their stories were destroyed, and where their memories echo and live on"-- Provided by publisher
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Biography POSSANZA A. P856 Available 33111011301005
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

When Amelia Possanza moved to Brooklyn to build a life of her own, she found herself surrounded by queer stories: she read them on landmark placards, overheard them on the pool deck when she joined the world's largest LGBTQ swim team, and even watched them on TV in her cockroach-infested apartment. These stories inspired her to seek out lesbians throughout history who could become her role models, in romance and in life. Centered around seven love stories for the ages, this is Possanza's journey into the archives to recover the personal histories of lesbians in the twentieth century: who they were, how they loved, why their stories were destroyed, and where their memories echo and live on. Possanza's hunt takes readers from a drag king show in Bushwick to the home of activists in Harlem and then across the ocean to Hadrian's Library, where she searches for traces of Sappho in the ruins. Along the way, she discovers her own love - for swimming, for community, for New York City - and adds her record to the archive. At the heart of this riveting, inventive history, Possanza asks: How could lesbian love help us reimagine care and community? What would our world look like if we replaced its foundation of misogyny with something new, with something distinctly lesbian?

"When Amelia Possanza moved to Brooklyn to build a life of her own, she found herself surrounded by queer stories: she read them on landmark placards, overheard them on the pool deck when she joined the world's largest LGBTQ swim team, and even watched them on TV in her cockroach-infested apartment. These stories inspired her to seek out lesbians throughout history who could become her role models, in romance and in life. Centered around seven love stories for the ages, this is Possanza's journey into the archives to recover the personal histories of lesbians in the twentieth century: who they were, how they loved, why their stories were destroyed, and where their memories echo and live on"-- Provided by publisher

The names for love: Mary Casal and Juno (1892-1928) -- In the life: Mabel Hampton and Lillian Foster (1932-1978) -- A golf league of her own: Babe Didrikson Zaharias and Betty Dodd (1950-1956) -- On the island of lesbians: Sappho and Anactoria (floruit 595 BC) -- Who wears the pants? Rusty Brown and Jerry (1951-1979) -- The lesbian-ruled world: Gloria Anzaldúa, Cherrie Moraga, and lesbian community (1977-1981) -- A lesbian's best friend: Amy Hoffman and Mike Riegle (1980-1992).

Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-276).

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