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 ...

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?

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Editor’s Note: Lillian Faderman is a historian and author of “The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle.” The views expressed are those of the author. View more opinion at CNN. To lesbian, gay, ...

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

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 ...

Southern California has a rich history, but there is little known about the beginnings of the LGBTQ+ community in Southern California. We spoke to American historian, activist, and multiple Stonewall ...