In 1939 Pocket Books invented a way of selling massive quantities of books in America: print them on cheap paper, give them flashy covers and alluring cover lines and deliver them in bundles to drugstores, cigar stores, lunch counters, airports and railway stations as if they were magazines.
In fact, from 1950 until the mid-’60s it was a vibrantly colorful space, thanks to a revolution in the publishing industry. The lesbian literary landscape between 1928, when Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness was published (with its famous “sex scene” : “…and that night, they were not divided”), and the 1970s when lesbian feminist publishing exploded is often viewed as a blank space.
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