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In the fifties and sixties a thriving genre of trashy, sensationalistic pulp novels purporting to expose the sordid twilight world of lesbians sprang up. While most these dime store novels were written by and for straight men and traded mostly in ugly stereotypes about lesbians (and their eventual defeat and/or rescue by a male hero), a rare few were actually written by lesbian authors who attempted to treat their heroines with
Among the most famous of these were the five novels that make up ''The Beebo Brinker Chronicles'', by Ann Bannon. The books follow the [[Coming Out Story|coming out]] and search for love and happiness by pretty, feminine, [[Break the Cutie|very damaged]] Laura, and her [[Bifauxnen]] lover Beebo in 1950's Greenwich Village. Melodrama, angst, and sex ensue.
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* [[Cast Full of Gay]]: The only straight people are there to be [[All Love Is Unrequited|pined over]] [[Incompatible Orientation|unrequitedly]].
* [[Contemptible Cover]]: Done in the 50s with images that look very tame compared to today. The recent reprints take it [[Up to Eleven]] with incredibly over-the-top and sleazy images in order to replicate the effect.
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