Sex, History And Lesbian Outlaws - Democratic Underground

William769

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Sex, History And Lesbian Outlaws

Many journalists have written from an advocacy angle in the decades since Lesbian Tide stopped publishing in 1980, but few of those women have captured their own stories in book form, which is why Cordova’s hefty new memoir, When We Were Outlaws (Bella Books), is such an important addition to the literary cannon of LGBT non-fiction. The book deserves as much literary acclaim as any memoir this year, both because of the breadth of it and because it manages to be captivating, heartbreaking, and gratifying all at once.

Cordova is still a fixture in L.A.’s lesbian scene; in 2008, she co-founded The Lesbian Exploratorium (LEX), a non-profit cultural guerilla group that explores art, culture, and politics. But giving Cordova’s book a literary once-over seemed somehow inadequate so I asked one of Cordova’s contemporaries, Robin Tyler — a long time lesbian activist and fellow L.A. rabble rouser who has navigated many of the same paths as Cordova — to give us her take on When We Were Outlaws. — Diane Anderson-Minshall]

I started to read Jeanne Cordova’s When We Were Outlaws and was absolutely mesmerized by the book. I knew that Jeanne Cordova was a writer. I had been friends with Jeanne in the early 1970s and knew that she was one of the best investigative reporters who ever worked for L.A.’s alternative newspaper, the radical Free Press. I knew also that she was the founder and publisher of The Lesbian Tide, which soon became the largest national newsmagazine of the lesbian feminist decade. And I’d seen with my own presence that she was a key organizer of the first National Lesbian Conference held at UCLA in 1973.

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1. Rec

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2. wouldn't let me rec - over 24 hour limit - but I kicked it. Now they're both at the top!

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Sun Dec-04-11 10:31 PM
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3. Sorry I missed it earlier....

Sounds like a very good read and an excellent Christmas gift

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