![]() ![]() They had begun to form when I happened into a "gay girls" bar as a teenager with a phony ID in 1956-when I realized, first of all, that I was seeing a hidden world to which I wanted and needed to belong and, secondly, that if I joined that world I would be claiming an identity that was universally despised. ![]() The feelings that went into my words had been fermenting for the two decades that preceded my setting them down. ![]() As I recall their writing now, it seems to me that in those pre-monitor-and-cursor days each word was jabbed onto the page with a pen as pointed and passionate as a weapon. Those articles-on 19th-century literary and epistolary expressions of female same-sex love, the rise of sexological theory that pathologized love between women, and the ways in which conscious lesbian identity was formed and deformed-were all written between 19. IT has been over twenty years since I published the five articles on love between women that eventually became the basis of my 1981 book, Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present. Lillian Faderman's books include Surpassing the Love of Men (1981) and Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers (1992). ![]()
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