Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community is a 1993 book by Madeline Davis and Elizabeth L. Kennedy on the history of lesbian women in Buffalo and western New York state from the 1930s to the 1960s.

[6][7][8] Published by Routledge, Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold was reprinted for its 20th anniversary.

[9] Davis and Kennedy developed the book over the course of 14 years of research in the lesbian community in Buffalo, New York.

Boots of Leather includes description of this process while not taking all of their subjects' comments at face value; in a review for The New York Times Jeannine Delombard wrote, “The subjects' most telling anecdotes are tempered by the authors' references to their inconsistencies.

Butch lesbians Davis and Kennedy studied physically fought back, developing an identity in the course of their defense of their community and their right to occupy public space.