1960s 'pulp fiction' spurred LGBTQ rights

Out in the Bay by KALW

Feb 10, 202335:53Government & Organizations

While a young housewife and mom in the 1950s and ’60s, Ann Bannon wrote lusty lesbian love stories. Scorned by the literary elite then, her and other authors’ “pulp fiction” paperbacks helped advance queer rights and now...

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