Trish Bendix

“The remaining living legend of lesbian pulp is Ann Bannon, whose famed Beebo Brinker series brought Dorothy Allison back to her college dorm in Florida, where she read her copy locked in the dorm bathroom and harbored a crush on a girl down the hall who shared Beebo’s 'close-cropped hair and an eternal sneer.' 'When that girl disappeared from the dorm one myste-
rious night full of shouting and confusion, I ripped Beebo cover to cover and spread the pages over eight garbage cans and one
dumpster,' Allison recalled. 'Suddenly, I wasn’t reading porn, I was paging my own history.”
― Trish Bendix