 She read Donald Webster Cory's book "The Homosexual in America", which was a nonfiction book about gay men.Noticing there was nothing similar for lesbians, Meaker used her own observations of lesbians and the lives of lesbians that included "We Walk Alone" in 1955, "We, Too, Must Love" in 1958, "Carol in a Thousand Cities" in 1960, "We Two Won't Last" in 1963, and "Take A Lesbian To Lunch" in 1972.The Feminist Press re-released "We Walk Alone" and "We, Too, Must Love" in 2007.