Faderman

Butler and Ponsonby eloped in 1778, to the relief of Ponsonby's family (concerned about their reputation had she run away with a man) Faderman, p. 75. to live together in Wales for 51 years and be thought of as eccentrics.

Clendinen, p. 12. Historian Lillian Faderman calls the riots the "shot heard round the world", explaining, "The Stonewall Rebellion was crucial because it sounded the rally for that movement.

Faderman (1981), p. 139. Wollstonecraft and Blood set up a girls' boarding school so they could live and work together, and Wollstonecraft named her first child after Blood.

Faderman (1981), p. 241. Krafft-Ebing, who considered lesbianism (what he termed " Uranism ") a neurological disease, and Ellis, who was influenced by Krafft-Ebing's writings, disagreed about whether sexual inversion was generally a lifelong condition.

Faderman (1981), p. 242. However, Ellis conceded that there were "true inverts" who would spend their lives pursuing erotic relationships with women.

Faderman (1981), p. 254. Gradually, women began to author their own thoughts and literary works about lesbian relationships.

Faderman (1981), p. 320. Hall subscribed to Ellis and Krafft-Ebing's theories and rejected (conservatively understood version of) Freud's theory that same-sex attraction was caused by childhood trauma and was curable.

Faderman (1991), p. 73. Most women, however, were married to men and participated in affairs with women regularly; bisexuality was more widely accepted than lesbianism.

Faderman and Timmons, pp. 1–2 In a larger event in 1966 in San Francisco, drag queens, hustlers, and transvestites were sitting in Compton's Cafeteria when the police arrived to arrest men dressed as women.

Faderman, pp. 210, 266. Author Michael Bronski highlights the "attack on pre-Stonewall culture", particularly gay pulp fiction for men, where the themes often reflected self-hatred or ambivalence about being gay.

Lillian Faderman argues that Western society was threatened by women who rejected their feminine roles.

Specifically, Faderman connects the growth of women's independence and their beginning to reject strictly prescribed roles in the Victorian era to the scientific designation of lesbianism as a type of aberrant sexual behavior.