1960s 'pulp fiction' spurred LGBTQ rights

Published: Feb. 10, 2023, 6:13 p.m.

While a young housewife and mom in the 1950s and \u201960s, Ann Bannon wrote lusty lesbian love stories. Scorned by the literary elite then, her and other authors\u2019 \u201cpulp fiction\u201d paperbacks helped advance queer rights and now offer a glimpse of gay and lesbian life in those times.