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Beth Elliott (born 1950) is an American trans lesbian folk singer, activist, and writer. [1] In the early 1970s, Elliot was involved with the Daughters of Bilitis and the West Coast Lesbian Conference in California. She became the centre of a controversy when a minority of attendees in the 1973 Conference, including a keynote speaker, called ...
Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth Century America. Penguin Books; 1991 ISBN 0-14-017122-3; Gallo, Marcia. Different Daughters: A History of the Daughters of Bilitis and the Rise of the Lesbian Rights Movement. Carrol & Graf Publishers, 2006. ISBN 0-7867-1634-7; Katz, Jonathan. Gay American History. Crowell ...
The first lesbian publication in the United States was a newsletter called Vice Versa, subtitled "America's Gayest Magazine". It was created and edited by a secretary named Edith Eyde (using the pseudonym Lisa Ben , an anagram of "lesbian") in Los Angeles , and distributed privately in that area from 1947 to 1948.
Barbara Gittings (July 31, 1932 – February 18, 2007) was an American activist for LGBT equality.She organized the New York chapter of the Daughters of Bilitis [2] (DOB) from 1958 to 1963, edited the national DOB magazine The Ladder [2] [3] from 1963 to 1966, and worked closely with Frank Kameny in the 1960s on the first picket lines that brought attention to the ban on employment of gay ...
Pat Walker (February 18, 1939 - 1999) was a lesbian activist, poet, and businesswoman, best known for her involvement in the Daughters of Bilitis.She served as the president of the San Francisco chapter of the Daughters of Bilitis and helped create the Council on Religion and the Homosexual.
Many of his life’s most headline-making moments — his industry-defining success at Microsoft, his marriage to Melinda French Gates, the launch of their international charity and his personal ...
Although country music pushed back against The Chicks, they sold almost 900,000 tickets in the first weekend of their 2003 tour. Months later, they were declared Billboard’s top-selling country ...
Ernestine Eckstein (April 23, 1941 – July 15, 1992) was an African-American woman who helped steer the United States Lesbian and Gay rights movement during the 1960s. She was a leader in the New York chapter of Daughters of Bilitis (DOB). Her influence helped the DOB move away from negotiating with medical professionals and towards tactics of ...