Lillian Faderman

Lillian Faderman is an American author and historian of LGBTQ history and culture. Born in 1940 in the Bronx, New York, she studied at UCLA and the University of California, Berkeley. She is a Distinguished Professor Emerita of English at California State University, Fresno, and is widely regarded as one of the foremost historians of lesbian and gay American history. Faderman's major works include Surpassing the Love of Men (1981), Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers (1991), To Believe in Women (1999), Naked in the Promised Land (2003), and The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle (2015). The Gay Revolution is a comprehensive narrative history of the American gay rights movement from the 1950s to the Supreme Court's Obergefell v. Hodges decision in 2015. The book won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Nonfiction in 2016 and the Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Nonfiction. Faderman's work has received numerous awards and honours and has been foundational to the scholarly and popular understanding of LGBTQ history in the United States. She lives in California.