This anthology brings together texts written between 1969 and 1974—the five years following the Stonewall uprising—at a time when the LGBTQ+ rights movement was beginning to take shape. The authors were writing at the dawn of the queer movement, when "queer" was no longer just an insult or a reclaimed umbrella term, but was starting to appear in political journals and magazines as a rallying point. These writings reveal the political vitality of the era and the work undertaken by activists to claim a place at the intersection of feminist and homosexual movements. Most of these texts have never been translated into French. Yet they are crucial to deepening our understanding of this pivotal decade in the United States. Some are now considered classics in the history of feminist thought.

Directors of publication: Hélène Giannecchini, Félixe Kazi-Tani, and Louise Toth, with Sasha Candé and Joséphine Givodan