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À cette époque, très peu d'ouvrages de littérature traitaient du lesbianisme. publiaient également des romans lesbiens. ![]() Le Lesbian pulp fiction est lui-même un des thèmes abordés par les pulps, ce qui apporte une confusion de nom dans le langage populaire.ĭe nombreux éditeurs des années 1950 et 1960 publiant des romances, des Western, des récits fantastiques, des histoires de détectives, etc. La notion de Lesbian pulp fiction est fréquemment confondue avec le pulp, abréviation de pulp magazine dont les thèmes abordés allaient de la romance au récit fantastique, en passant par les histoires de détective et la science-fiction. ![]() Couverture de I Prefer Girls par Jessie Dumont, illustration de Robert Maguire, 1963 ![]() |