Traces the evolution of the lesbian community in Buffalo, New York from the mid-1930s up to the early 1960s. This 20th anniversary edition includes a new preface in which the authors reflect on where the last 20 years have taken them, and reminisce about the process of creating the original book. For anyone interested in lesbian life during the 1950s, or in the dynamics of butch-fem culture, this study remains the one that set the highest standard for all oral histories and ethnographies of lesbian communities anywhere..