... same issue, a couple from Mississippi named Wanda and Brenda described feeling “blessed” to host traveling lesbians from New York and Nashville: “The isolation here in Gulfport is tremendous but being CD’s helps.” 62 Beyond its dispersed geography, the Contact Dyke Directory had several other...

...Janet Fireman Over a dozen years, frequent driving trips between Los Angeles and San Francisco cultivated and seasoned the historian's esteem for California's Great Central Valley and ripened her curiosity about how authentic travelers—witnesses of the land—understood the Valley's topographic...