Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Southern California has a rich history, but there is little known about the beginnings of the LGBTQ+ community in Southern ...

While Faderman (To Believe in Women) is well known as the foremother of gay and lesbian studies, few would suspect she was the illegitimate child of a guilt-obsessed single mother, that she tried to ...

Have you ever been bullied, fired, harassed, beaten up or threatened with violence because you are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender? Has someone ever tried to “cure” you of your homosexuality?

Lillian Faderman has lived an extraordinary life. From her birth in the 1940's to an unmarried Jewish immigrant working in New York's garment industry, Faderman traveled a strange road, that took her ...

Lillian Faderman’s exhaustive survey of American history comes up to the present but stops short of engaging with today’s charged gender debates. By Alexandra Jacobs When you purchase an independently ...

If Lillian Faderman has a particular genius it’s for being first, or at least early; she was one of the first historians of lesbianism, launched pioneering classes in women’s studies before the ...

For the past 20 years, California State University literature Professor Lillian Faderman has been moonlighting as a social historian, rescuing lesbians from obscurity with chronicles of their ...

For more than three decades, Lillian Faderman has been a professor and historian. But in the late-'50s when she was in school, she needed to support herself. She worked in the university library, but ...

To say that La Jollan Lillian Faderman’s new book was a huge undertaking is, to put it mildly, an understatement. The title of the book alone is indicative of that. “Woman: The American History of an ...

Harvey Milk, pictured in 1977 in San Francisco, was a crusader for gay rights whose Jewish background informed his advoacy for outsiders. (AP) Review by Karen Iris Tucker Karen Iris Tucker is a ...