Lee Lynch is the recipient of the 2009 ForeWord Book of the Year Bronze Award in Gay/Lesbian Fiction for her novel Beggar of Love (Bold Strokes Victory Editions).  ForeWord Reviews’ Book of the Year Awards were established to bring increased attention to librarians and booksellers of the literary and graphic achievements of independent publishers and their authors.
Beggar [...]

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by Lee Lynch

We gay people have it so good these days. I’m thinking of Lee Coats from Waco, Texas. She died last year at age 85 after living a full life, almost 59 years of it with her lover.
Her “lover,” not her wife or partner or any of those respectable words that would [...]

The Amazon Trail
by Lee Lynch
As a gay kid in high school, when I wasn’t in the Village trying to fake my way into bars with my girlfriend, I used to hole up in my tiny room, reading Kerouac and Camus and listening to WBAI, an alternative radio station in New York. I refused to own [...]

The Amazon Trail
by Lee Lynch
I don’t wear leather other than shoes or belts, but I do have my butchwear standards. Butch style, though, is different by generation, ethnicity, geography, personality and income. For example, I wouldn’t know how to dress appropriately for a dinner party on the upper east side of Manhattan. At gatherings that [...]

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by Lee Lynch
I spent way too much of my childhood learning not to be my mother. She was a wife and a housewife; I didn’t want to be either.
Every time I hear one lesbian call another “wife,” it sends shockwaves through my system. I have the same problem when lesbians use the term [...]

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by Lee Lynch
The winter holidays have always been a bit confusing for me. As a little kid, my mother gave me dolls I ignored and my big brother gave me the fun stuff: trucks and guns. We had a little tradition. My father would lug home a Christmas tree and hide it on [...]

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by Lee Lynch 
I don’t feel like an elder. I’m only 64. I still work a full time job. I’m a lot heavier than I used to be, but otherwise I’m still the bashful white middle class dyke in boy clothes I always was. Heck, I’m even getting married for the first time next [...]

Also check out Lee’s NEW BOOK at the end of the article.
The Amazon Trail
by Lee Lynch
In a nation of rebels, I guess it’s not surprising that rebellion can take so many forms, but is it just me, or is it typical for lesbians and gay men to live in the midst of our rebel-opposites?
When I [...]