Mary Wings
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In 1973 Mary Wings made history by releasing Come Out Comix, the first lesbian underground comic book
Underground comix
Underground comix are small press or self-published comic books which are often socially relevant or satirical in nature. They differ from mainstream comics in depicting content forbidden to mainstream publications by the Comics Code Authority, including explicit drug use, sexuality and violence...
. She may be best known for her series of detective novels featuring lesbian heroine Emma Victor. Divine Victim, Wings' only Gothic
Gothic fiction
Gothic fiction, sometimes referred to as Gothic horror, is a genre or mode of literature that combines elements of both horror and romance. Gothicism's origin is attributed to English author Horace Walpole, with his 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto, subtitled "A Gothic Story"...
novel, won the Lambda Literary Award
Lambda Literary Award
Lambda Literary Awards are awarded yearly by the US-based Lambda Literary Foundation to published works which celebrate or explore LGBT themes. Categories include Humor, Romance and Biography. To qualify, a book must have been published in the United States in the year current to the award...
for Lesbian Mystery in 1993.
Wings, an open
Coming out
Coming out is a figure of speech for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people's disclosure of their sexual orientation and/or gender identity....
lesbian
Lesbian
Lesbian is a term most widely used in the English language to describe sexual and romantic desire between females. The word may be used as a noun, to refer to women who identify themselves or who are characterized by others as having the primary attribute of female homosexuality, or as an...
, resides in San Francisco.
Comix
- Come Out Comix (1974)
- Dyke Shorts (1978)
- Are Your Highs Getting You Down? (1980)
Novels
Divine Victim (1993) - Lambda Literary Awards 1993 — Lesbian Mystery WinnerEmma Victor Series
- She Came Too Late (1986)
- She Came in a Flash (1988)
- She Came by the Book (1995)
- She Came to the Castro (1997)
- She Came in Drag (1999)
Lectures
- A Woman of Affairs with historian Eric Garber (1993) — The Life of Greta Garbo