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  <name><![CDATA[Joan Nestle]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Joan Nestle writes and edits essays, erotic fiction, poetry, and short stories.  She is an activist, and among many actions has co-founded the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lesbianherstoryarchives.org/&quot;&gt;Lesbian Herstory Archives&lt;/a&gt; to preserve records of lesbian lives and communities and currently coordinates the &lt;a href=&quot;http://womeninblack.org.au/&quot;&gt;Women in Black&lt;/a&gt; protests against Israel's occupation of Palestinian lands.]]></about>      <hometown>New York City</hometown>      
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[GenderQueer: Voices From Beyond the Sexual Binary]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[A Restricted Country]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[A Fragile Union: New &amp; Selected Writings]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Sister and Brother: Lesbians and Gay Men Write About Their Lives Together]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Women on Women: An Anthology of American Lesbian Short Fiction]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Vintage Book of International Lesbian Fiction]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[NYC Sex: How New York Transformed Sex in America]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Martin B. Duberman]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Women on Women 2: An Anthology of American Lesbian Short Fiction]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Best Lesbian Erotica 2000]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Women on Women 3: A New Anthology of American Lesbian Fiction]]></title>
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