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Book reviews of current paperbacks were regular features, including a heated exchange in print between contributors to The Ladder and author Marijane Meaker as Ann Aldrich from 1957 to 1963. Meaker had written the immensely successful Spring Fire in 1952 under the name Vin Packer and was known to the Daughters of Bilitis.
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 ...
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 ...
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 was born on February 18, 1939, in Los Angeles, California. [1] [2] She was born partially blind and by her teens, had lost her vision completely.Walker realized she was a lesbian in her teens and had a supportive family; her mother had gay friends and discussed sexuality in The Well of Loneliness with her. [2]
Right in the midst of Banned Books Week, which concluded on Saturday, a children's novel about a Chinese-immigrant experience entered the center of controversy in a small New York school district. ...
Daughters of Bilitis: Monthly/bimonth First widely distributed lesbian periodical in the United States. ISSN 0023-7108 [2] Daughters of Bilitis–Philadelphia Newsletter: 1967 1968 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Philadelphia chapter of Daughters of Bilitis [1] [3] No More Fun and Games [b] 1968 1973 Somerville and Cambridge Massachusetts
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 ...