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Allenswood Boarding Academy (also known as Allenswood Academy or Allenswood School) was an exclusive girls' boarding school founded in Wimbledon, London, by Marie Souvestre in 1883 and operated until the early 1950s, when it was demolished and replaced with a housing development.
In 2014 Laura Davis Danforth became the first openly LGBTQ person to be appointed Head of School at a boarding school in North America. She and her wife, Paula Chu, will be the first same-sex couple living in a head's house at a boarding school when they officially join the Masters School (NY) community in 2015.
Olivia Records, named after the heroine of a 1949 pulp novel by Dorothy Bussy who fell in love with her headmistress at French boarding school (the heroine and the novel both being named Olivia), was the brainchild of ten lesbian feminists (the Furies and Radicalesbians) living in Washington, D.C., who wanted to create a feminist organization ...
On a Saturday in 1994, a 68-year-old woman called a special phone line set up to support British lesbians – and not for the first time. We don’t know her name but can safely assume that she ...
She was born in Brest, France, the daughter of French novelist Émile Souvestre.She founded the girls' boarding schools Les Ruches ("the beehives") in Fontainebleau, France, where writer Natalie Clifford Barney and her sister Laura Clifford Barney were later educated, and Allenswood Boarding Academy, in Wimbledon, outside London, where her most famous pupil was Eleanor Roosevelt. [2]
Greenbrier Academy for Girls (GBA) is a therapeutic, college preparatory boarding school in Pence Springs, West Virginia for grades 8-12. Surrounded by a 140-acre (57 ha) campus, the Academy’s main building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. GBA is located in rural southeastern West Virginia.
The majority of American Catholics, 61%, favor legalized same-sex marriage, while 31% are opposed, according to a 2019 poll from the Pew Research Center. However, the poll did not survey ...
The Walt Whitman Community School (WWCS) was a private alternative school in Oak Lawn, Dallas, Texas that catered to youth who identified as LGBT. [1] It opened in 1997 and closed in 2004. It was the United States's first LGBT-oriented private school, [ 2 ] and by 2003 it remained the country's only LGBT-oriented private school not in Manhattan ...