France, 1760. Marianne is commissioned to paint the wedding portrait of Haeloeise, a young woman who has just left the convent. Because she is a reluctant bride-to-be, Marianne arrives under the guise of companionship, observing Haeloeise by day and secretly painting her by firelight at night. As the two women orbit one another, intimacy and attraction grow as they share Haeloeise first moments of freedom. Haeloeise portrait soon becomes a collaborative...

The story takes place in Kotzebue, a small town in northwest Alaska. A 20-year old pipeline worker, whose name is also Kotzebue, is in search of parents and self when she meets Roswitha, a German middle-aged librarian whose husband was killed twenty years ago as they escaped from East Berlin. A friendship develops between Kotz and Roswitha as they search for the truth about their respective pasts

Marcia, a frumpy lingerie sales girl from Buenos Aires, lives a solitary life of dreary routine after having been dumped by her boyfriend. But soon her dreams of romance are unexpectedly answered when a pair of feisty leather-jacketed, crop-haired lesbian punks, Lenine and Mao, accost her on the street

The complications of love and friendship among three New Jersey comic book artists; Holden, his partner Banky, and Alyssa, the woman Holden falls in love with only to be thwarted by her sexuality

Set in the 1890's, the story of a lesbian love affair between a music hall male impersonator and a young woman smitten by the music hall life

Naama is seventeen and bored. Living in a sleepy suburb outside Tel Aviv, she spends most of her time drinking and partying in order to escape from her bickering parents at home. Everything changes when Dana, a free-spirited new girl shows up at school. Naama can't help but fall madly in love, but while the relationship gives her life new meaning, it also inspires a sexual and personal awakening that she can hardly control.

Wilhelmina is a Chinese-American lesbian and a young surgeon who has kept her sexual orientation secret from her conservative Chinese community in New York. But when her widowed mother becomes pregnant and is kicked out by her own parents, Wil suddenly has to juggle her mother's secrets with her own. Wil has a new romance with Vivian who is a ballet dancer and the daughter of Wil's boss

When Jenny decides to marry a woman, her conventional family is forced to accept who she is or risk losing their daughter and their self respect.

In a barren, arranged marriage to an amateur swami who seeks enlightenment through celibacy, Radha's life takes an irresistible turn when her beautiful young sister-in-law seeks to free herself from the confines of her own loveless marriage and [falls] into the supple embrace of Radha."--Container

Somewhere along the mid-nineteenth century American East Coast frontier, two neighboring couples battle hardship and isolation, witnessed by a splendid yet testing landscape, challenging them both physically and psychologically.