Sarah Aldridge

(2016) "Queer Romance in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century America: Snapshots of a Revolution " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 389-404

Topic

Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors

lesbian romance

Katherine V. Forrest

Wallace Hamilton

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Radclyffe/Len Barot

(1992) Sexuality in Lesbian Romance Fiction Feminist Review 42.1:49-66 DOI: 10.1057/fr.1992.48

Topic

LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors

Katherine V. Forrest

Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

Michelle Martin

Juhasz, Suzanne

(1998) Lesbian Romance Fiction and the Plotting of Desire: Narrative Theory, Lesbian Identity, and Reading Practice Tulsa Studies In Women's Literature 17.1:65-82 DOI: 10.2307/464325

Topic

lesbian romance

LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors