On the eve of the International AIDS Conference in Washington DC, the history of ACT UP is getting much attention. Some of the activist/organizers from that era acknowledge their debt to the feminist movement of the 1970s. In the vanguard of that movement – challenging inculcated societal opinions about what it means to be a woman – were lesbian feminists. But as award-winning lesbian writers Lillian Faderman and Jeanne Cordova have detailed in their remarkable works – lesbians, too, were struggling with identity and self-definition.
Sunday afternoon, July 22, from 3:00-5:00 at the June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives in West Hollywood, Faderman will introduce Cordova who will discuss her recent Lambda Literary Award-winning book When We Were Outlaws: A Memoir of Love & Revolution. Cordova, a recent winner of the prestigious Publishing Triangle Judy Grahn Lesbian Nonfiction award for lesbian and women’s rights, will also present video clips from “Outlaws on Stage,” slides of that turbulent era of the 1970s, as well as do a reading, answer questions and sign books.
The event is being held downstairs at the Mazer archives, at 626 N. Robertson Blvd. West Hollywood – between Melrose and Santa Monica Blvd; street parking is free on Sundays. (310) 659-2478. www.mazerlesbianarchives.org
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