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Maya Angelou did not speak for almost five years
After a childhood trauma she went mute, and spent those silent years reading everything she could. She emerged to become a poet who read at a presidential inauguration.
Lesbian History
Sappho: The Tenth Muse
Around 600 BCE, the poet Sappho of Lesbos wrote verses of love between women; Plato called her the Tenth Muse.
Lesbian History
The Well Of Loneliness, 1928
Radclyffe Hall's 1928 novel spoke openly of love between women and survived an obscenity trial to become a landmark book.