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The
Official Website of the Writer
Lee Lynch
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Lee Lynch has been writing
for and about lesbian and gay people her whole career. Her
goal has always been to enhance lives in ways that help everyone
find fulfillment, strength, pride, and happiness.
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DEFIANT
HEARTS
The Classic Short Stories
Winner of a 2023 Goldie!
Gathered for the first time in one collection, these
short stories from Lee Lynch represent a quarter century of passionate
portrayals of lesbian women. Lynch chronicles the lives of old
women who fall in love, a Black firefighter seeking her place
in the feminist community, bar dykes unwilling to back down, the
denizens of lesbian-owned Café Femmes, and Henny—who runs an urban
fruit stand while regaling her baby butch assistants with tales
from her life.
Iconic characters from Lynch's novels also make
an appearance: Frenchy Tonneau from The Swashbuckler and
Annie Heaphy from Toothpick House.
Lee Lynch’s work is considered among the classics
and a cornerstone in the large and permanent foundation of lesbian
literature.
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“From the beginning of my writing career,
I just wanted to write about lesbian/gay life as I experienced
it. Like so many, I came from a place of great isolation. At the
same time, being gay filled me with great pride and joy. Writers
Jane Rule, Isabel Miller, Radclyffe Hall, Valerie Taylor, Ann
Bannon, and Vin Packer gave me inspiration and even the lesbian
companionship I needed as a baby dyke. More than anything, I want
to give to gay people what those writers gave me. And I want to
do it well enough that my words might someday be considered literature
and, as such, might endure because, as open as some societies
have become, there are always haters, and cycles of oppression.
Our writers strengthen us, offer a sense of solidarity and validation
that we are both more than our sexualities and are among the best
that humanity offers.”
Lee Lynch [1945 - ], American author, winner
of an Alice B Award in 2007 and named a 2010 Trailblazer by the
Golden Crown Literary Society, quoted from the book, An American
Queer: The Amazon Trail
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