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)
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
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.
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
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