Queer books of the 1980s

Available for over a year

Novelist and comedian VG Lee on a decade in which queer novels began to celebrate and normalise lesbian identity. Books selected: The Colour Purple by Alice Walker Oranges are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café by Fannie Flagg Outlander, a collection of short stories by Jane Rule