Publisher Barbara Grier dies at 78

Source: wtxl.tv

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Barbara Grier, a founder of the lesbian publishing company Naiad Press, has died. She was 78.

Grier's partner, Donna McBride, says she died of cancer Thursday at a hospital in Tallahassee, Fla. The couple founded Naiad Press
with two other women in 1973.

She says Grier believed that through literature she could make lesbians feel good about themselves and find a happy life.

Tallahassee-based Naiad was best known for publishing "Lesbian Nuns: Breaking Silence" in 1985. Fifty-one former or current nuns contributed to the book. It described relationships in their religious communities that sometimes turned into love affairs.



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