impact that they had on the creation of the lesbian community. Sexologist begin to study the relationships that developed between working-class women who moved away from home, and "frequently shared rooms [with each other], sometimes on a long-term basis" (38). The sexologists were "primarily medical men with middle-class backgrounds"(39) and they were prone to be able to see these lower-class women as deviant, rather then those of their own class (39-40). In order to make more money these lower class women "cut their hair, and wore men's clothes"(42) in order to be able to take on men's jobs and to make men's wages. When the sexologists found about these types of women they "assumed that a masculine-looking creature must also have a masculine sex instinct"(43).Unlike Faderman, Epstein's article does not trace the details of the formation of homosexual communities, but rather the movement of homosexuals for equality and justice. He approaches the topic with a linear history of the homosexual movement beginning with the 1950's, when the "United States...witness[ed] its first social movement organizations concerned with the status of homosexuals"(Epstein 34). Epstein shows the rise and fall of each of the organizations that attempted to make some political and social change in the lives of the homosexual, such as; the Gay Liberation Front(38), the Gay Activists Alliance(41), the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force(44), and many other groups. One thing that Epstein takes notice of in the organizations is that they "were narrow in their social composition - largely white and, with the increasing gentrification of property within them, largely middle class"(43). This is a major issue for Epstein as he sees that "the formation of quasi-ethnic communities proved central to the rise of the lesbian and gay rights movement"(43). Epstein does cover the topic of lesbianism as a sole entity briefly when he writes that the "mainstream lesbi...
