Vintage Lesbian Photos from the 20's 30's 40's 50's & 60's

Hitched! Wedding Vows 1968

circa 1932

I'm Home

Love is in the air.

Chicago Bois

1940's lesbian San Francisco (1945)

Women who wear monocles...1920s lesbian fashion

Mabel Hampton 1902-1989

Lesbian Pulp and Media Mail

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These are some of the great lesbian pulp books I got from a lovely woman in Florida a couple of weeks ago. We never met but I feel like we are almost friends now.

We did a lot of emailing, discussing books, prices, Post Offices and Media Mail, and about creating collections and then wanting to thin out your possessions in later years.

Well right now thanks to 'M', our new website (in the works) will have a few of these lesbian pulp fiction novels for sale. www.lavenderpulp.com

When M mailed the books, she thought this local post office would be closed since it was Christmas Eve, so she mailed me the books from another nearby branch. How cute is this?

It's a gay gay world

serious and sexy gay girls

There were a lot of gay girls in the 1950s!

campy and crazy gay girls

gay girls on lesbian mugs and framed prints
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hot gay girls

really, it's a gay, gay world

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NYC Annual Dyke March 2014

The 22nd Annual Dyke March was June 28th this year in NYC.  It started at 42 Street by the main branch of the New York Public Library and proceeded downtown on 5th Avenue all the way to Washington Square Park. 

March goes to Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village

One of the highlights of the day was running into political activist Maxine Wolfe, one of the founders of the Lesbian Avengers and the Dyke March. 

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Washington Square Park Fountain

What Happens Under the Covers in Lesbian Pulp Fiction

1959 Lesbian Pulpfiction by Valerie Taylor
available at LavenderPulp.com

Best friends Annice, Barby and Pat leave behind Small Town, USA to live in the Windy City of Chicago in this lesbian pulp novel, "The Girls in 3B".

Surprisingly modern for its genre, Valerie Taylor's much-loved coming of age story deals with sexual identity, infidelity, drug experimentation, the glass ceiling and double standards. A friend of mine said the best word to describe the book was "desire".

Author Valerie Taylor was inducted into the Chicago Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame in 1992 for her work as a LGBT and social activist.

Valerie Taylor

Taylor explains "I began writing gay novels around 1957. There was suddenly a plethora of them on sale in drugstores and bookstores... many written by men who had never knowingly spoken to a lesbian. Wish fulfillment stuff, pure erotic daydreaming. I wanted to make some money, of course, but I also thought that we should have some stories about real people."

Other Cover Art by Meese

The delicious cover art for "The Girls in 3B" was painted by James Meese showing his trademark subtlety and transparency in skin tones. He also created a lot of covers for Mickey Spillane and Agatha Christie books.

Notice in the first draft of "The Girls in 3B" there are four women compared to three in the final cover art. Probably typical of the times (and even today) blonde haired Pat seems awfully thin for someone described as big boned in the novel. Nevertheless Meese created one of the most alluring lesbian pulp covers.

Get your hands on a sexy Authentic Vintage copy of "The Girls in 3B" and other 1950s Lesbian Pulp Fiction Novels at LavenderPulp.com

Valerie Taylor 1913-1997

Le Monocle, where lesbians met in 1920s Paris

Le Monocle, a well-know lesbian bar in the Montmartre section of Paris from the 1920s through the early 1940s is credited as being one of the first, and certainly the most famous of lesbian nightclubs that flourished in 1920s Paris. Located on Edgar-Quinet Boulevard, the bar was opened by Lulu de Montparnasse.

Lulu, owner of Le Monocle

Sitting at the bar in Le Monocle

Monocles were a fashion trend for lesbians indicating their sexual preference; worn by such women as Lady Troubridge and Radclyffe Hall, author of the Well of Loneliness.

British Sculptor Lady Troubridge and partner of Radclyffe Hall

Portrait of Lady Troubridge by Romaine Brooks

Troubridge and Radclyffe Hall

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Paris wasn't the only place lesbians wore monocles, in Berlin, Germany another bar named Monokel opened in 1932 but closed in March of 1933 when the Nazi party closed down Berlin's gay and lesbian bars. This great poster reads:

Monokel
The Bar of the the Woman
(Located at) Budapester Strasse 14 
The Dancing Cabaret of the 
Sophisticated Glamourous World
Admission free  Well-kept beers

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LavenderPulp at the Rainbow Book Fair

This year's 6th Annual LGBT Rainbow Book Fair was a blast. It was great to meet new people, see old friends, and talk about Vintage lesbian pulp fiction books. There were more women vendors this year as well as attendees. Bravo to all who came out (!?!) in the rain. Here are snippets of some conversations:

"I've tried to read lesbian pulp fiction as ebooks but it's not the same, I want to be able to hold the actual book in my hand"

"I used to read them in my bathroom"

"We learned about these in women's studies classes but to see the actual vintage books is so different! Which one is the most sexy?"

"When I was young I had a huge collection under my bed"

During the day, there were several special moments, I had a talk with one lesbian pulp fan who was starting her collection over because of a house fire, and then another because her books were thrown out. There was also one avid reader who selected two of the classics and planned to have them read by the end of the weekend (did you?). A gay man remembered his mother having a large collection. The LavenderPulp table was next to the same publisher as last year and we got to have a few laughs before he rushed to get the train back to Washington DC.

There were several new books being announced including 'Manning Up' about transexual men. Besides a great lineup of readings and panels, there was a last minute surprise addition to the schedule: several lgbtqi teenagers from Hetrick Martin read their works. 

Until next year.

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