The famous lady lovers: Black women and queer desire before Stonewall

List of illustrations

Have we a new sex problem here?

Women slain in queer love brawl : the violent emergence of lady lovers in the 1920s northern Black press

The famous lady lovers in the early twentieth-century Black popular entertainment industry

A freakish party Black lady lovers, vice, and space in the prohibition era urban north

Intimate friends and bosom companions : middle-class Black lady lovers crafting queer kinship networks

Conclusion

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index.