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The act of 'coming out' has the power to transform every aspect of a woman's life: family, friendships, career, sexuality, spirituality. These accounts, sometimes heart-wrenching, often exhilarating, encompass a wide breadth of backgrounds and experiences. From a teenager institutionalized for her passion for women to the mother who must come out to her young sons at the risk of losing them, each woman represented here tells of forging a unique path toward the difficult but emancipating recognition of herself. Together they form an ornate tapestry of lesbian and bisexual experience in the United States over the past half-century.
First publish date: October 5, 1999
Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction/Lesbian Fiction
Authors: Joan Larkin
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