I knew in high school that gay bars existed in Pgh, but I didn’t know the names of any of them. Lesbian identity belong to all women as does lesbian history so Happy National Lesbian Day and enjoy this trip down memory lane – Sue K. You had something to say back then and you still do. Our histories matter and I urge you to write down what you recall. At the same time, the impact of feminism and racial privilege were embedded as well.
As you’ll read in Sue’s essay, the influence of capitalism, the cyclical nature of organizing, and gender parity play huge roles in these histories.
There’s very little first person documentarian specifically of queer women who would most often identified as gay or lesbian in the 70’s era. I begged and pleaded with her to put her recollections of queer women’s history into writing. She and my wife had mutual friends so we began corresponding and dining out together back when we did those thing.
