Useful websites, local and overseas

From the Auckland Writers Festival 2015 - 2017:

• Canadian Ivan Coyote on their book ‘Tomboy Survival Guide’ video and podcast
• Roxanne Gay on ‘Difficult women’ (podcast)
• The Book of Forgiving: Mpho Tutu van Furth (podcast)
• Susie Orbach and Jeanette Winterson on ‘Creativity and Craziness’ - podcast and video
• Susie Orbach on ‘Feminist Days’ (podcast)
  
• and from the 2015 Festival: UK Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy,
  and our own Renée

Book lists, book reviews, bibliographies, blogs

• 100 must-read lesbian and bisexual women books - from bookriot.com
• The 10 best lesbian books where no one dies! - from author Anna Pulley
• 38 lesbian magazines that burned brightly, died hard, left a mark - article about the histories of American lesbian magazines
  Six Lesbian Magazines From The Then Before Now - article on Autostraddle about American lesbian magazines from the 1970s
• Describing Jools and Linda - a post on the National Library's blog about Topp treasures archived in the Alexander Turnbull Library
• Lesbians in the Twentieth Century, 1900-1999 - annotated bibliography on OutHistory.org
• Good Lesbian Books - a book review website, with links to other lesbian book blogs
• List of LGBT writers - on Wikipedia [a bit short of current Kiwi writers but we know who they are]
• Lambda Literary Foundation - LGBT book reviews, author interviews, opinion and news. Includes the annual Lambda Literary Awards, blog, tweets.
• Rainbow List - annual lists of quality books with significant and authentic GLBTQ content, which are recommended for young people
• Queer YA - reviews of fiction of interest to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, queer, and questioning teenagers
• The Lesbrary - a lesbian book blog.
• Casey the Canadian Lesbrarian - another blog.
• Lesbian literature on the Wikipedia LGBT portal, which also has information on some Lesbian authors
• UK lesbian fiction - a blog with info about new titles, authors, awards, etc.
• Bibliography of Australian lesbian history
• Bibliography on Homosexuality in New Zealand, 1770-2012 - Tony Millett's labour of love
• Natalie Clifford Barney: An Annotated Bibliography - includes an introduction with biographical details and information about Barney's relationships with other writers. The citations include works written by and about her, and there is also a listing of works in which she appears as a fictional character. (pdf, plain text and other formats)

Online magazines

• Lesbian News Aotearoa - formerly in print as the Tamaki Makaurau Lesbian Newsletter

Digitisation projects

• Dyke, a quarterly, published in New York City 1975-1979 - an annotated archive of issues, letters, ephemera and some side trips
• Broadsheet - New Zealand's feminist magazine published 1972 - 1997. Plenty of lesbian content and lesbian authors
• Sinister Wisdom, a multicultural lesbian literary & arts journal. Published since July 1976; digitisation project completed to no. 73 Sept 2008 [Feb 2019]
• Spare Rib, feminist magazine with significant lesbian content, published in the UK 1972-1993
• Strange Sisters - (an archive) of lesbian paperback artwork from the 50s and 60s. LILAC has the book Strange sisters : the art of lesbian pulp fiction 1949-1969 by Jayne Zimet, shelved at 700 in the nonfiction section.
• Trouble & Strife, radical feminist magazine with significant lesbian content, published in the UK 1983-2002 [issues scanned but not digitised]

Lesbian history

• New Zealand: Lesbian lives on Te Ara, the online Encyclopaedia of New Zealand
• lesbian history by British gay historian Rictor Norton; he has found some gems. See our Full text page for links to some of them.
• Queer History research guide from the National Library of New Zealand

... and some New Zealand women's history

• Spiral Collectives - celebrating women’s art & writing from Aotearoa New Zealand

Interviews with (and about) authors

• Patricia Highsmith was the subject for LILAC's book group in February 2018. There is lots of great Highsmith material on You Tube. This includes a recording of the BBC Desert Island Discs interview from 1979, comments by lesbian authors Alison Bechdel and Terry Castle and a discussion with her biographer Joan Schenkar. There are also lots of recordings related to the 2015 movie "Carol"
• Interview with Renée on the occasion of publication of her memoir These Two Hands; broadcast on RNZ Saturday Morning programme on 18 Nov 2017; the interviewer was Kim Hill. Naturally LILAC has the book!
• Black Scottish author Jackie Kay interviewed by Nicola Sturgeon ... and there are a few other videos of her on youtube.
• Rita Mae Brown talking about her background, getting the women's movement to accept lesbians and writing Rubyfruit Jungle.
• A 1962 TV interview with Natalie Clifford Barney (1876-1972). Filmed at her home in the Latin Quarter of Paris, she talks about her life and the great writers and personalities she met and entertained in her salon. There is more information about her on wikipedia.
• 1975 TV movie The Writer in America: Janet Flanner - Janet Flanner (1892-1978) wrote a weekly column for The New Yorker for 50 years, under the pen name "Genêt". As well as being one of the "women about Paris". (running time 29:16)
• An interview with Jane Rule (1931-2007) in which she talks about her work as a writer, the effects of that work on a larger audience, the film adaptation of 'Desert of the Heart', motherhood (which often appears as a theme in her work), her move from the US to Canada, teaching, art, loneliness, and much more.

Same Same But Different

• Same Same But Different audio - from the Same Same But Different LGBTQI writers festival, held in Auckland 12-14 February 2016

Queer libraries, archives & museums

• LAGANZ - Lesbian and Gay Archives of New Zealand
• Charlotte Museum Trust, a lesbian museum for New Zealand
• Lesbian Archive and Information Centre (LAIC) - set up in London in 1984, the LAIC is now housed in the Women's Library in Glasgow. It contains the largest and most significant collection about lesbian lives and organisations in the UK.
• GLBTQ archive of an Encyclopedia of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Culture; no new material added since 2015
• Gerber Hart Library and Archives (Chicago)
• HOMODOK LGBT archive (Netherlands)
• June Mazor Lesbian Archives (Los Angeles)
• Lesbian Herstory Archives (New York)
• Pat Parker/Vito Russo Library, New York
• Historic gay & lesbian photos from the digital collections of the New York Public Libraries

Local queer websites

• Lesbian New Zealand - links to N.Z. lesbian websites
• Lesbian Wellington
• Armstrong & Arthur Charitable Trust for Lesbians
• Rainbow Wellington
• Rainbow Team Wellington - an umbrella organisation for Wellington queer sports and recreation groups
• Express magazine

Book shops!!

• Unity Books where we buy most of our books; has an online shop as well
• The Women's Bookshop in Auckland; they have a mail-order service.