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Lesbian Identity
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Accomplished : The Lesbian Nation Years, 1970-75 (High
Risk Books) by Jill
Johnston As a contributor to the Village
Voice in the 1970's, Jill Johnston was the first writer to
come out as a lesbian in the mass media. Her 1973 book, Lesbian
Nation, was a bible for militant feminists. This collection
gathers more than seventy of the wildly inventive rants, reviews
and diatribes Johnston wrote during that explosive era. What comes
through in these writings is Johnston's fierce and iconoclastic
intelligence. Her signature style of long, run-on, rarely indented
paragraphs and the uncapitalized "i" suggest the frenzy
of change that took place during the 1970's Women's Movement.
Johnston was working to find an appropriate shape to express the
ideas inherent in radical lesbianism. These essays play with
notions of pop iconography in "Lois Lane is a Lesbian",
new family structures in "Lesbian Mothers Ltd.," and
undoing male artistic privilege in "Zelda, Zelda,
Zelda." "The Wedding" includes a description of the
lesbian marriage of contemporary classical composer Pauline
Oliveros. In all of these essays, Johnston claims Gertrude Stein
as her intellectual and stylistic forerunner. Hopefully, this
collection will spark a reevaluation and appreciation of an
important lesbian theorist and writer. --Rebecca Brown
 Contemporary
Lesbian Writers of the United States by Sandra Pollack
(Editor), Denise D. Knight (Editor) The
first comprehensive biographical, critical, and bibliographical
source on lesbian writers, this reference book features essays on
100 contemporary writers of poetry, fiction, and drama in the
United States. All had written as self-identified lesbians at some
point during the 1970-1992 period. Each essay comprises a
biography, with personal history often derived from interviews, an
analysis of major works and themes, an overview of the critical
reception, and bibliographies of primary works and of critical
studies. The volume introduction situates contemporary lesbian
literature in its historical and political contexts. Appendices
list publishers of lesbian writers and periodicals featuring
lesbian writers. An extensive bibliography provides nonfiction
resources focusing on lesbian issues. For
this list of writers covered, click HERE.
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Cyber cafe for African-American and lesbian women of color.
This is a comfortable site with chat rooms and message
boards. This site is obviously a labor of love.
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A site dedicated to celebrate lesbian visibility without any boundaries or borders than those of your mind. It
focuses on everything related to lesbians and things of interest for dykes, lesbians and women-loving women. Art, music, erotica, personal ads, message boards,
chat rooms, an interactive cartoonstory, the eurosappho picture gallery and lots of links of interest for women.
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Begun in 1985 to end isolation and loneliness
among midlife and old Lesbians, now GOLDEN THREADS is a
worldwide network. Although created for the ageful Lesbian, no
woman is excluded because of her age.
Also, GOLDEN THREADS is a contact
publication for Lesbian women over fifty, and their younger
Lesbian friends. Issue dates are March, June, September, December.
Subscription is free to members. A Golden Threader receives the
publication for the term of her membership. Golden Threaders
become friends with one another, no matter where we are: around
the world or across town. We come together in correspondence, by
exchanging talk tapes and by telephone. Eventually, most Golden
Threaders meet.
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Womyn For Womyn is a non-profit regional
organization working for human rights of womyn who suffer from
prejudice and discrimination against their sexual preference as
well as gender, through doing research and disseminating
information through the use of information and communication
technologies. It is designed to provide comprehensive and up
to date information on sexuality, gender and human rights issue in
Asia.
We believe that the information would be utilized as a means of
empowerment and as a tool of raising awareness.
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Imagine yourself in a room surrounded by almost
a century of lesbian artwork, manuscripts, books, records,
newspapers, magazines, photographs, games, organizational papers,
tapes, letters, scrapbooks, clothing, and flyers; sharing with
other lesbians the excitement of rediscovering the lives and
struggles of the women who have come before us; perhaps even
catching glimpses of pieces of your own past. You have just
imagined yourself at the June L. Mazer Lesbian Collection.
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The Lesbian Health Resource Center works to
visibly and actively promote the health and well- being of the
diverse community of lesbians and women who partner with women and
improve our health care through education, advocacy, resources and
referrals in the North Carolina Triangle area.
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The Lesbian Herstory Archives exist to gather
and preserve records of Lesbian lives and activities so that
future generations will have ready access to materials relevant to
their lives. The process of gathering this material will also
serve to uncover and collect our herstory denied to us previously
by patriarchal historians in the interests of the culture which
they serve. The existence of these Archives will enable us to
analyze and reevaluate the Lesbian experience; we also anticipate
that the existence of these archives will encourage lesbians to
record their experiences in order to formulate our living Herstory.
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Links to lesbian history on the Internet. Lesbian history in
any location and time period. Special Projects: The Lesbians of Color Web page;
The Southern California Lesbian History Web page.
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The
goal is to locate, gather, organize, preserve and make
accessible materials in any medium, from any time place and
location, that are specific to or related to lesbian
history. The Lesbian Legacy Collection has a special
commitment to gather lesbians of color materials and images of
lesbian history, and to place their holdings and to help other
collections place their holdings on the Internet as a way of
promoting accessibility.
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Lesbian.org is a web site dedicated to promoting lesbian visibility on the internet by providing resources, information, publications and mailing lists for lesbians. The site contains no pornographic material and is suitable for viewers of all ages. |
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Founded in 1990, The Mautner Project is the only
national organization dedicated to lesbians with cancer, their
partners and caregivers.
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NOW's half a million contributing members and
hundreds of chapters
make a difference.
 | We organize record-breaking crowds for
protests on issues such as violence
against women and abortion
rights. |
| We help elect
record numbers of feminist women to Congress and to state
legislatures from Maine to California. |
| We're using our U.S. Supreme Court victory to
sue
anti-abortion terrorists who conspire to murder doctors
and bomb clinics. |
| We champion important new laws--like those
requiring employers to provide family and medical leave and
ensuring stronger enforcement of child support awards.
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| We advocate for survivors of rape, sexual
harassment and sex discrimination. |
| We organize, organize, organize to fight
the right wing--whether it's over attempts to scuttle
affirmative action, cut the safety net out from under poor
women and their children or outlaw basic civil rights for
lesbians and gay men. |
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NCLR is the nation's legal center with a primary
commitment to advancing the rights and safety of lesbians and
their families through a program of litigation, public policy
advocacy, free legal advice and counseling, and public education.
In addition, NCLR provides representation and resources to gay
men, and bisexual and transgendered individuals on key issues that
also significantly advance lesbian rights.
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SmartWomen promotes the empowerment, education
and inspiration of women who love women through digital dialogue,
socializing, networking and activism. We are an intersection of
dialogue and information exchange, a virtual e-community.
SmartWomen provides women who love women-focused dialogue, events,
information, and much more.
We recognize that our goal is to be inclusive
and open to all women and to challenge racism, classism,
ablism, sexism, ageism and sizism. The mission of SmartWomen.Org
is to promote and facilitate, uplift, inspire and educate the
integration of women who genuinely love women into all aspects of
society, in order that we may lead our society to a
better place.
SmartWomen is for women who love women, no
matter what form that may take. Therefore, the group is
inclusive and welcomes bisexuals, transgendered people and
straight women. SmartWomen’s aim is to bring together in one
place, and through one means of communication, the positive power
of women and to do something entertaining, useful and productive
with that talent.
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