Published in 2022
155 pages
4 hours and 1 minute
Kirsty Loehr is a writer and English teacher. She loves women, football, history and comedy – but not necessarily in that order. She lives in Brighton.
What is this book about?
Queer women have always existed—let’s put them back in the history books
No, they weren’t “just friends!”
Queer women have been written out of history since, well, forever. “But historians famously care about women!,” said no one. From Anne Bonny and Mary Read who sailed the seas together disguised as pirates, to US football captain Megan Rapinoe declaring “You can’t win a championship without gays on your team,” via countless literary salons and tuxedos, A Short History of Queer Women sets the record straight on women who have loved other women through the ages.
Who says lesbians can’t be funny?
