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As their second child, and a lesbian, I am one of the two queer sheep in mi familia. An older sister was born a year before me, and ten younger siblings came after. Private time with our parents ...

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TOMBOYS; DYKE DERRING-DO Published by Alyson Publications An extract. The sun baked the cement street plains of West Covina, California in 1958 just as surely as it caked the hills at the battle ...

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from “The Persistent Desire: a Femme-Butch Reader”, Joan Nestle, editor Alyson Publications, 1992 First they came for the Communists, But I didn’t speak because I wasn’t a Communist. Next...

https://jeannecordova.com/2024/02/10/butches-lies-and-feminism/

I believe that lesbians constitute a tribe of our own. Since I was a junior dyke decades ago, I’ve traveled to Rome, Mexico, England, and Africa. Wherever I go I recognize my people, lesbians. ...

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(Speech given at the 40th Anniversary Celebration of Stonewall, West Hollywood, CA, June 2, 2009, panel with Lillian Faderman, Mark Thompson & Don Kilhefner) The Stonewall Riots, which took place...

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"One of the best reads of the year comes from Jeanne Cordova.  Her memoir 'When We Were Outlaws' chronicles a time in the 1970s when she was a young lesbian reporter and activist who was fightin...

https://jeannecordova.com/2024/02/09/news-and-reviews-for-outlaws/

A Letter About Dying, to My Lesbian Communities by Jeanne Córdova (written September 8, 2015) This letter is meant as a notification and thank you to the thousands of members of the national le...

https://jeannecordova.com/2024/02/08/a-letter-about-dying/

In Memoriam & Press THE ADVOCATE: Jeanne Cordova Remembered L.A. TIMES: Jeanne Córdova dies at 67; activist and author chronicled lesbian feminist movement of 1970s AUTOSTRADDLE: Jeanne Córd...

https://jeannecordova.com/2024/02/07/jeanne-cordova-remembered/

WHEN WE WERE OUTLAWS: A Memoir of Love & Revolution LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD winner: Lesbian Memoir/Biography PUBLISHING TRIANGLE : Judy Grahn lesbian non-fiction award GOLDEN CROWN LITERARY AWA...

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