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This week, our woman you should know is one who helped create the groundbreaking book Lesbian Nuns: Breaking Silence.

We go back into history for this week's entry on a woman you should know — the late, great author Carson McCullers.

This week we look at one of the most acclaimed authors working today, Emma Donoghue.

This week, in our series on women you should know, we feature the author of the groundbreaking lesbian romance The Price of Salt.

This week's installment in our series on women you should know: a novelist who writes both 'lesbo Victorian romps' and great spooky stories, and who's glad her work got her mother to use the word 'dildo.'

The award-winning author of the beloved lesbian young adult classic Annie on My Mind passed away at age 76 in her home in Carlisle, Mass.

Lesbian author Candace Walsh opens up about politics, sexy chefs, and culinary birthrights.

Tom MacMaster, an American man from Georgia, has confessed to writing the blog 'A Gay Girl in Damascus,' after a week-long hunt following the alleged kidnapping of its fictitious author, Amina Arraf.

Sara Marcus -- pictured above--author of the new book Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution, says the punk ladies of the ’90s changed not only music and style but also sexual boundaries. 'Although none of Riot Grrrl’s original progenitors identified as lesbians, the movement had taken much of its inspiration from the gay punk networks of the late ’80s and early ’90s. And by 1996, when all the bands originally associated with Riot Grrrl had broken up or were headed that way, the torch was passed to a new wave of specifically queer musicians: all-lesbian supergroup Team Dresch (who frequently toured with Bikini Kill in their early years), power-poppers the Butchies, avant-metal duos the Haggard and the Need.'

She produced numerous books as either author or editor, including Lesbians Only: A Separatist Anthology; The Original Coming Out Stories; Finding the Lesbians; International Feminist Fiction; Sexual Practice/Textual Theory: Lesbian Cultural Criticism; Lesbian Culture: An Anthology; Out of the Class Closet: Lesbian Speak; Call Me Lesbian: Lesbian Lives, Lesbian Theory; and Crossword Puzzles for Women.

A discussion in Amsterdam on Islam featuring activist Irshad Manji was interrupted halfway through when about 20 boys and young men burst in, spit at people, threw eggs, and threatened to break Manji's neck.

Bella Books, which publishes and distributes lesbian romance, mystery, fiction and erotica, has found a way to reach out and touch readers – the Bella Y Tour. The format is simple… authors come to town and have a social event, do a community service project and wrap up with book readings and a Q&A session.