A Place of Our Own : Six Spaces That Shaped Queer Women’s Culture – ‘A cracking read’ (Val McDermid)

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by Thomas, June | Of specific Lesbian interest
Published 05/06/2025 by Little, Brown Book Group (Virago Press Ltd) in the United Kingdom
Paperback | 304 pages, integrated black and white photos, approximately 12.

For as long as queer women have existed, they’ve created gathering grounds where they can be themselves. In A Place of Our Own, journalist June Thomas invites readers into six iconic lesbian spaces over the course of the last sixty years, including the rural commune, the sex toy boutique and the feminist bookstore. She also illuminates what is gained and lost in the shift from the exclusive, tight-knit women’s spaces of the ’70s toward today’s more inclusive yet more diffuse LGBTQ+ communities.