Love, Bulldaggers, and the Birth of Lesbian Research, 1920s-1930s

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In this episode of Our Dyke Histories, we continue to follow the astonishing life of Eve Adams into exile — the butch, Jewish, immigrant anarchist who opened Eve’s Hangout, a tea room in 1920s Greenwich Village that became one of the earliest proto–lesbian bars in the United States. Drawing on Jonathan Ned Katz’s groundbreaking research, Jack Jen Gieseking, Katz, and Julie Enszer trace Eve’s friendships with Anias Nin and Henry Miller; her bold self-published book Lesbian Love (about many of her exes, so delightfully gay); and the policewoman who entrapped her, triggering a sensational raid, trial, and her deportation.

We track Eve from New York to Chicago, LA, and back, and finally Paris, ...