The Lexington Six: Lesbian and Gay Resistance in 1970s America
- Author
- Josephine Donovan
- Content
- xiii + 255 pp., ill., bibl., index
- Publication date
- 2020
- Publisher
- Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press
- Description
- Based on interviews, FBI files, newspaper stories, and transcripts of the hearings for five lesbians and one gay man who refused to help authorities investigate a robbery and killing by antiwar protesters who took refuge in their Lexington, Kentucky, community in 1974.
- Main subject
- Feminism and Women's Rights
Law
Lesbian Studies
Politics
Sociology and Social Issues - ISBN
- 9781625345431 (cloth); 9781625345448 (pap.); 9781613767900 (ebook)
- Citation
- Donovan, Josephine. The Lexington Six: Lesbian and Gay Resistance in 1970s America. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2020. Sylvia. Accessed March 31, 2026. https://sylvia.library.wisc.edu/catalog/SYL2248.
- Updated
- 03-24-2026