Available for the first time in years, this revised classic collection of personal essays offers an intimate account of the lesbian, feminist, and civil rights movements.

    Until his wife's death, not even his children -- Diana's nieces and nephews -- have known about Diana and her lifetime companion Constance. But now David seeks to bridge over those years and recapture the closeness of childhood, to become part of Diana's life, to have her be a major part of his.For the independent, irascible Diana, the overtures from her brother are an unwelcome intrusion. Retired from her medical practice, she spends her days fully occupied with Constance, for whom memory is increasingly a sometime thing.David, growing ever more fond of the enchanting Constance, struggles to win her trust... and Diana is inexorably drawn into the events and drama of David's family life.In Memory Board the incomparable Jane Rule gives us her tenderest, most poignant, most humor-filled novel... and brings to us altogether fresh insights into living and loving and the nature of commitment.

    Abandoned and left for dead, she walks to the ocean to kill herself. Instead she is rescued by the Hadra, wild riding-women with strange powers, women who ride their horses by consent, speak mind-to-mind with each other and are all lovers of women. This is Sair's own tale of her life and adventures among the Hadra, a journey that will finally take her to the fabled city of Zelindar.

    Butcher than butch, Hawk leaves her lovers indelibly marked and begging for more even while she herself moves on in search of tomorrows conquest. Street-smart and unsentimental, OakGroves Nighthawk is a figure of unforgettable power and sensuality.

    She goes back home to her little factory town and there starts the saga of the diner. Dusty and Elly, both characters from Lynch's novel Toothpick House, along with their blind friend Grace, the fiery old lesbians Gussie and Nan, lively gay Jake and their non-gay co-workers wage the battle of their lives to keep the dream of Dusty's Queen of Hearts Diner thriving in the face of powerful bigotry. Erotic, dramatic and very real, this is the celebrated first book of The Morton River Valley Trilogy.

    Essays discuss feminism, reform, lesbianism, education, the media, and the status of women around the world.

    The author contends that the gay affirmative model is fundamentally incompatible with radical feminist theory in which lesbianism is a political statement representing the bonding of women against male supremacy.This volume was awarded a 1989 Distinguished Publication Award by the Association for Women in Psychology.

    The photographs disclose the vital work of lesbians as we invent our lives, and the passionate, committed work of lesbians within many political movements.... These pictures urge us to see our selves, our fire of life, to imagine and create a future where we see each other, distinctly, in all our differences, and honor each other there.

    First in a series featuring this lesbian private eye.