Overlooked No More: Eve Adams, Writer Who Gave Lesbians a Voice Her 1925 book, “Lesbian Love,” is one of the earliest examples of American lesbian literature. She also ran Eve’s Hangout, a literary haunt in Manhattan. Eve Adams in 1941. A group of people — none of whom knew Adams during her lifetime — have jointly helped resurrect the story of her life.Credit...University of Illinois Library July 2, 2021 This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times. In her lifetime and for many years after, Eve Adams was variously called a “novelty girl,” “a bit of an anarchist,” “the queen of the third sex,” “a self-professed ‘man-hater,’” the author of an indecent book and, finally, Passenger 847 on Transport 63 to Auschwitz.