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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.
Call it a sign of the strange times in which we live, when disinformation and conspiracy theories run rampant on social media, but a decade after TV's true crime renaissance began, the cult ...
Ken Burns, the legendary documentarian has examined nearly every era of American history. We ranked all of his films, from Baseball to The Vietnam War. Every Ken Burns Documentary, Ranked
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 ...
Chilean screenwriter, director, and science fiction author Julio Rojas, best known for his acclaimed audio series “Caso 63” and director Miguel León, whose recent works include the critically ...
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]