A Scottish newspaper editor describes his travels in the United States and Canada during the American centennial and offers observations on American life and culture

Product Description: Frances, a 1950s housewife, becomes bored with her suburban life and enrolls in a class at the local community college. When she meets Bake, a butch lesbian, her life completely changes. In thrall to a forbidden world of martini lunches, late nights at queer bars, and a sexual passion she never knew was possible, Frances must chose between the safety of heterosexual marriage, or the dangers of life on the edge of society...read more

Traces the story of the world's first organization committed to lesbian civil rights and empowerment, describing how it was launched alongside its gay male counterpart, the Mattachine Society, in response to the oppressive anti-homosexual climate of the McCarthy era, in an account that surveys its contributions and evolution over the course of two decades.