Top 10 Sapphic love stories

Uitgereikt door The Guardian

10 Werken 11,357 boeken 479 Besprekingen 4.1
Are fictional lesbians always miserable?

When I first came out and started anxiously reading the “Sapphic canon”, I feared that was the case. Classics such as The Well of Loneliness, The Color toon meer Purple, Stone Butch Blues, or indeed Sappho’s poetry, told me that falling in love with a woman could be profound and beautiful, but it would not be fun. Sapphic love stories were defined by longing, yearning and angst. Often, women died.

Don’t get me wrong, I love a good yearn. But not all the time. Happily, the more LGBTQ+ love stories are told and encouraged, the more variety of representation can flourish. The way sapphists are portrayed is increasingly permitted to be as multifaceted and unique as real life.

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In narrowing down my recommendations of Sapphic love stories, I want to provide an alternative for my worried younger self: so here are 10 books that affirm that Sapphic love can be one of life’s greatest pleasures.

Lily Lindon – LT author page toon minder
Year Awarded:
2023

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