Unnamed Desires: A Sydney Lesbian History is a 2015 non-fiction book by Rebecca Jennings.

She argues that, contrary to the "myth of acceptance", there was a powerful silencing of lesbianism in Australia until the late 1970s.

While gay men were openly prosecuted, lesbianism was nonetheless widely constituted as unacceptable through methods of silencing.

Jennings begins by describing the emergence of lesbian social networks and subcultures in the post-war decades.

[9] Reviewers praised Jennings for bringing light to an understudied part of Australian history, and for her use of "silence" as a theoretical framework.