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2026 RBMS Virtual Showcase

June 23-26, 2026

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Lesbian Hoboes: Their Lives and Times

JR Roberts

$250
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  • Binding: Corner-stapled packet, 8 ½ x 11 in. 16, [1] pp. Minor oxidation at spine, light age toning to cover sheet, and small closed tea
  • Publisher: self-published
  • Location: np
  • Date: 1980
  • Seller SKU: 10312

np: self-published, 1980. Corner-stapled packet, 8 ½ x 11 in. 16, [1] pp. Minor oxidation at spine, light age toning to cover sheet, and small closed tear at center of first leaf. Historical essay on lesbian hoboes of the early 20th century by JR Roberts, the compiler of Black Lesbians: An Annotated Bibliography, published a year later by Naiad Press.

Originally published in a 1977 issue of Dyke: A Quarterly, this revised version was printed and sold by Roberts in this packet format. An compelling record of queer life on the fringes, the essay also includes a detailed bibliography.

"Meanwhile, back on the American highways, working class lesbians - 'lady lovers' as they were called then - were struggling to survive in a society which not only hated 'queers' but also despised the working class and denied and abused the right of independent working women to job, home, and food."

Not located in OCLC as of October 2024. A remarkable study of queer itinerant labor in the early-20th century.

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Specializing in Archives & Collections, Black Liberation, Central & Latin America, Feminism, Lgbtq+, Middle East, Radicalism, Social Movements and Underground Art.

Fugitive Materials is committed to the preservation of radical, lesser-known, and alternative histories, and to the disruption of informational privilege through archiving, publishing, and bookselling. We specialize in global material cultures of resistance: the detritus of radical social movements, queer histories, counterculture, pedagogy, urbanism, uprisings, and art. We organize, catalog, and place archives, ephemera, and primary-source documents with universities and museums around the world. As members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (ABAA), we buy and sell books, periodicals and ephemera and locate rare and out-of-print publications. Fugitive Materials also publishes books, zines, and catalogs, oftentimes prompted by archival materials we handle

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