Bernice Abbott brought to her photography a background in design, painting, and sculpture, as well as her apprenticeship experience. She brought out the image created by her subjects themselves.

Abbott's photographs were on permanent exhibition on the bookshop Shakespeare & Co. in Paris (Sylvia Beach's Salon), but as a photographer and poet, she was represented in the little magazine sold in the shop and her work was sold in there as well.

Abbott was one of the few Americans who left Paris at the time of the German occupation; returning to New York City, she documented it's decline during  the Great  Depression thru her photography.

More on Bernice Abbott
 

• Aritst Profile / Berenice Abbott

• THE LEFT BANK/ Pairs in the 1920's

• Artcyclopedia: Bernice Abbott

• University of Montana Photography Collection

Paula Gunn Allen was born in 1939 and grew up on Cubero Land Grant in New Mexico. She received Her Ph. D. for the University of New Mexico, in 1975. Allen is well known feminist writer who is highly praised for her creative scholarly works, which promote Native American literature as a viable and rich source of study. Allen has also edited a number of books.  She is currently teaches at the University of California, Los Angeles in the English department.  A few of her books tittle list as follows; A cannon between my knees, Grandmother of the light: a Medicine woman source book, The scared hoop: recovering the feminine in american indian, Shadow country, Skin and bones: poems 1979 - 1987, Song of the turtle: American Indian Literature,( 1974 - 1994), and Spider Woman's granddaughters: traditional tales and contemporary writing by Native American women.
 
 
 

Alice Austin (1866- 1991)  a photographer  documented her work in the early stage of photography when cameras were large and cumbersome and the film was a glass plate. Attention was not made to her work till 1951. It was a fleeting moment of national recognition. She was soon to be forgot as a photographer.

 

Josephine Baker  world famous performer, an  American who live her life out in  France were she was adored. She was believed to be bisexual or atleast to give the bisexual image in her cross dressing.

More on Jophine Baker
 

• THE LEFT BANK / Pairs in the 1920's

• THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE

• Josephine Baker / biography

As a reporter and illustrator for magazines, under pseudonyms such as Lydia Steptoe, she wrote feminist satire on women's conventional roles. She wrote three experimental plays Three from the Earth, An Irish Triangle, and Kurzy and the Sea which were produced in 1919-20 by the avant-garde  Provincetown Players.  Her acting name was Gunga Duhl.

From 1912 to 1920 detail of her life are scant and conflicting. She was in love with both men and wowyn. Barnes had a brief arranged marriage to Court Lennon. Her lovers from this time was gay painter, Marden Hartley, the poet Mary Pyreand, briefly Jane Hemp, co-editor with Margaret Anderson of the Little Review. Barnes was widely published in the Little Review in the United States. This gave Barnes a reputation both as a writer and a visual artist, to Paris before her arrival in 1919.

Barnes had a brief affair with Natalie Baraney and was a regular at Barney's Lesbian soiree. Barnes drew from the circle of womyn to write Ladies Almanac a curios and comic book featuring her drawings of herself and Barney's salon crew.  It became a classic. It featured a lesbian code language and lesbian theme. It was published in 1928 and was privately under the pseudonym 'A Lady of Fashion'. Barnes had wrote it for her lover amusement, Thelma Woods while in a hospital stay. Wood was an American silver point artists and sculpture who Barnes meet in 1920. The first few years with Wood were happy living together.  Later Barnes would write the highly praised novel published in 1936, Nightwood, the stormy relationship with Wood. Next to James Joyce, Barnes was considered by her peers to be the most important writer of expatriate Paris community.

It was, before . . She lived in Paris and England from 1920 to 1940.  Bertha Harris regarded Djuna Barnes's work as "practically the only available expression of lesbian culture we have in the modern western world" since Sappho. Her Nightwood was number 12 of the list of the top 100 gay books compiled in the USA in 1999.

More on  Djuna Barnes
 

• THE LEFT BANK / Paris in 1920'S

• THE LEFT BANK OF PARIS ... The womyn

Barney who never quite recreate a Sapphic circle earlier in Greece with her lover Renee Vivien,  none the less in Paris at her garden in Nevilly, Sappho's plays were performed.  Her guest ranged from a former lover Colette to Mata Hari.

In 1909, Barney established a salon in her home in the leftbank that continue for 60 years. It would become one of the two important salons on the 1920's era in Paris.

Barney's life began to change in 1915, she met the painter, Romaine Brooks. Brooks became her lover inspite Barney's infidelities. The two remained together until both were well into their nineties. Romaine broke it off after Barney fell for another womyn. After all the years  Brooks camel had finally broke it's back.  Her portrait above by Romaine Brooks, Tittled L'Amazone, Natalie Barney.

More on Natalie Barney
 

• THE LEFT BANK /  Paris in the 1920's

• THE LEFT BANK ...The wowyn

  Gladys Bentley (1907 - 1960) was singer and preformer in the 1920s' Harlem Rennaissance. Starting in 1928 ( at age 21) she began a recording career that spanned 2 decades. Glady  would transform popular tunes of the day with raunchy naughty playfull lyrics.  Dressed in signature tux and top hat , she openly and riotously flirted with women in the audience. Although on her recordings she did not dare have lesbian lyrics , she certainly played up this image in the clubs and in public.

She claimed to have married a newspaper columnist named J. T. Gibson ( a man who soon after publicly denied that the two had ever wed). In 1952 she does seem to have married a man named Charles Roberts. He was a cook and 16 years younger than Bentley , who lied on the marriage certificate , stating her age as 36 rather than 45. The two eventually divorced.  Lois Sobel ,a popular columnist of the era , recalled Bentleys announcement of her marriage ceremony with her white female lover in New Jersey.

More on Gladys Bentley
 

• Gladys Bentley Biography

• THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE The wave of black artisans to Harlem in the 1920's

Ruth Bernard born 1906 is a photograher. Her first show was in 1986 at the age of 80, at the San Fransico Museum of Modern Art, a collection of 50 nudes entittled
'The eternal Body' , it was also show in Denver, Newport Beach, New Orleans, New York and Japan. When asked how shed'd like to be remembered, she said not just for her nudes " I'd like to be remembered for the fact that I admired the universe, that I respected life, that I thought it was great privelege to have an awarness of waht the universe might be all about, and that I was aware that I really didn't know anything, but htat I reached out all the time."
 

Tessa Boffin Born 1960; died October, 1993. British photographer. Her series of photographs Angels Rebels: Lesbians and Safer Sex, 1989, addressed the issue of how lesbians are influenced by AIDS and how they could continue to enjoy sexual expression in the face of sensational press stories. In a series of portraits, The Knight's Move, 1990, she looked at lesbian history and stereotyping. In 1992 Tessa Boffin began working with her lover, Nerina Ferguson, on the "Crucifixion Cabaret" at the Purgatory nightclub. Tessa Boffin played a centurian in full costume with red and gold cloak, and Nerina Ferguson took the role of a gold-painted naked slave. Tessa Boffin took her own life in October, 1993.

Rosa Bonheur (1822- 1899) French animal painter and sculptor.

About  Rosa Bonheur

• Biography

• paintings

• Bounheur Artist Profile

• Bonheur and her lover Natalie Micas  (image)

Links on the net

Rosa Bonheur's web page http://www.geocities.com/WestHollywood/Village/5855/rosa.hmtl
 

  Romaine Brooks (1822 - 1899)She was a painter of intense portraits in muted colors and in the muse of Paris artists in the early 1900's. She was a life time friend of Natalie Barney.

More on Romaine Brooks

• Romaine Brooks Biography

• Paintings

• Barney and  Brooks image

• Romaine Brooks: paintings and photographs

Rita Mae Brown contemporary writer, feminist and lesbian activist. Brown is the author of Rubyfruit Jungel. Learn more about Rita Mae Brown on herWeb site.

Louise Bourgeois developed a logic of instincts and it is important to link her art to the greater themes of knowledge or literature, rather than to the systems of art. It is better to speak about materials extracted from repression, the life struggles as abandonment and anger, desire and aggression, communication and the inaccessibility of the Other. In the constant confrontation between the instincts of death, anguish, fear and the instincts of life, the work of Louise Bourgeois is a painful and triumphant affirmation of existence illuminated by the libido. In this biographical and erotic work, to transform materials into art is a physical conversion, not in the religious sense, but like the conversion of electricity into power, she affirmed.

In Louise Bourgeois' work, we are often faced with the presence of subjects who desire, and who desire sexually . They are not immediate figures of desire but they position themselves clearly as operations of desire. Bourgeois' vengeance on the constraints of the "wish to know" is to create the disorder of the forbidden. Some of Bourgeois' sculptures seem to exhale the sweat of erotic work. Others have extremely tactile forms, like the sensuality found in Degas' sculptures. Mamelles, a colony of rubber breasts, speaks of a calculated symbolic reference.
 

Bourgeois links on the net
 

• Louise Bourgeois Art Minimal & Conceptual Only

• Louise Bourgeois exhibition at Berkeley University http://www.uampfa.berkeley.edu/exhibits/bourgeois.html

She has also written several essays and columns for newspapers and magazines across the country on various topics such as the murder of Tejano singer, Selena; gender roles in the Farmworkers movement (Los Angeles Times, 4/20/97); and being a mother (Salon, 4/12/99).  She has been profiled and interviewed on National Public Radio and the History Channel. In addition, she has also been featured along with Sandra Cisneros and Denise Chavez in Vanity Fair (9/94) and Hispanic (3/95).

She received an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation for her first novel, The Mixquiahuala Letters.  Her other awards include a Carl Sandburg Award, a Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts in fiction and poetry. Castillo is constantly in demand for speaking and reading engagements. In 1999, her engagements included readings for  the National Hispanic Medical Association's Annual Conference, the American Library Association Conference, Loyola University/Chicago, and several other colleges and universities.

Castillo Novels include:
My Daughter, My Son, theEagle, the Dove, March 2000 (young adult novel)
Peel My Love Like an Onion, 1999
Loverboys, 1996 (short stories)
MY FAVORITE:So Far From God, 1993 (novel)
The Sexuality of Latinas, edited with Norma Alarcón & Sapogonia 1990
The Mixquiahuala Letters, 1986

Anna Castillo links on the net

Cahun moved to Paris with her lover, Suzanne Malherbe who was herself a noteable designer and artist under the pseudonym Marcel Moore. In 1914 Claude Cahun studied at the Sorbonne. In 1914 Cahun produced her first photographic self-portraits under the pseudonym of Claude Courlis. She wrote for a number of publications including Mercure de France for which she reported on the trials of Oscar Wilde. She also wrote for L'Amité,(1925) a homosexual review magazine.
 

"My opinion about homosexuality and homosexuals is exactly the same as my opinion about heterosexuality and heterosexuals. All depends on individuals and circumstances. I claim a general freedom of behaviour." - Claude Cahun

In 1929 Mercure de France published Caher translation into French of Havelock Ellis's Study of Social Psychology.  In 1932 Claude Cahun joined the group of communist artists and writers, the "Association des Ecrivains et Artistes Révolutionnaires", in which she meets André Breton and other Surrealists. However the group expels André Breton and the Surrealists in 1933 for their non-orthodox views.  Cahun also quits.

 Cahun and Suzanne Malherbe returned to La Rocquaise in Jersey in 1937. In 1940 the German army invaded Jersey. Cahun and Suzanne Malherbe became active in the Resistance, but in 1944 they were arrested by the Nazis and sentenced to death for inciting Nazi troops to mutiny. They were imprisoned until February 1945 but spared death by the liberation of the island. Claude Cahun died from complications that developed while she was in prison in 1954.

Further details about Claude Cahun can be found at the Jersey Museum.

Bio from The Knitting Circle http://www.sbu.ac.uk/~stafflag

Link

• Claude Cahun Web Site

Images of Wilma Cather
 

• Young Cather

• Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial

•  Willa Cather / Harvard University

• Cather site

• Young and Bright Medusa by Willa Cather / University Of Virginnia Libirary

Meg Christian a native Southerner,  was a leading performer and song writer during the emerging lesbian-feminist movement. In addition to groundbreaking albums I Know You Know, Face the Music and Turning it Over, she was one of the organizers for Olivia Records.

Known for her "down home" stage presence and evocative lyrics, songs like "Ode to a Gym Teacher" and"Leaping Lesbians" were lesbian anthems.

At the 6^th Annual Michigan Wimin’s Music Festival in 1981, Christian reflecting on more than a decade of work, said:

"I started thinking about all the wimin that I know and that I love so much who have been doing very hard and intense and important political work for a long, long time Somehow in the process of saving all those other wimin’s lives they have forgotten to take care or their on and have started burning out in one way or another. It’s hard to remember that we’re one of those wimin that we’re making the revolution for."

-Meg Christian

More on the net

• Lavender Jane Loves Womens Music

www.geocities.com/WestHollywood/Village/1410/toc.html

Colette (1873- 1954) French novelist and journalist. Her original name was Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette. She has sometimes been known as Colette Willy. Her mother was Adele-Eugenie-Sidonie, but called Sido. Her father, Jules Colette, was an army captain who fought in the Crimea and lost a leg in the Italian campaign. He then became a tax collector.

In 1893, aged 20, Colette went to Paris to marry Henri Gauthier-Villars. Colette's early novels, in the Claudine series, were published by, Henri Gauthier-Villars, under his pen name 'Willy'. In Claudine à l'École, (1900), (Claudine At School), Claudine, a tomboyish girl of 15, develops an intense crush on a pretty assistant mistress, Aimée. This is the first time in modern literature in which a girl looks at another woman and describes her as an object of pleasure. Colette's collaboration with Henri Gauthier-Villars ended in 1904, and from then until 1916 she wrote under the name Colette Willy. They divorced in 1906.

She then began to work in music halls, performing in dance and mime. She liked to shock by baring her breasts. Her music hall experiences provided material for L'Envers du music-hall (1913) and Music Hall Sidelights (1957).

She had numerous affairs with women. One of them was the youngest daughter of the Duc de Morny, Mathilde, known as Missy, with whom Colette lived in a château. After a brief marriage Missy had become the Marquise de Belboeuf, but she became well known in Paris lesbian circles as Monsieur Belboeuf. Colette and Missy caused a scandal with a mime piece at the Moulin Rouge in which Colette was an Egyptian mummy who unwrapped her bandages and kissed Missy as the cross-dressed archaeologist. The 15 minute item was banned by the Paris police commissioner.

Colette also became a great love of the US-born writer Natalie Barney (1876-1972) who appears as 'Flossie' in the Claudine series of novels.  In The Pure and The Impure (1941), Colette includes sketches of Parisian lesbians including Missy as 'La Chevaliere'.  Colette wrote to Una Troubridge, the lover of Radclyffe Hall, to explain that she disagreed with the view expressed in The Well of Loneliness of lesbian love as abnormal.

Colette had a column as drama critic in the newspaper Le Matin, and there was a further scandal when she eloped with Henry de Jouvenal, the editor-in-chief of the paper. With Henry de Jouvenal she accidentally conceived her only child, a daughter, Colette Renée de Jouvenal, out of wedlock. Her mother gave her the provencal nickname, Bel-Gazou, that her own father had given her. Colette and Henry de Jouvenal then married in 1912.

In World War I Colette was sent as a reporter to the Italian front.  In 1920 Claire Boas, the previous wife of Henry de Jouvenal, introduced their 16-year-old son, Bertrand de Jouvenel, to Collete. During the holidays on the Breton coast that summer Bertrand lost his virginity to the 47-year-old Colette. The events paralleled Colette's novel Chéri, which was being serialised at the time in La Vie Parisienne, and is about an older woman's affair with a younger man. Colette's second marriage came to an end when her husband heard of the affair, and they divorced in 1923.

Colette's third husband was the pearl dealer Maurice Goudeket, who was 16 years younger, and whom she married in 1935 at the age of 63. They settled permanently at the Palais-Royal in Paris.

Among her literary friends were Jean Cocteau and Jean Marais. In 1928 Colette became a member of the Legion of Honour, and 1936 she was made a commander. She later became a grand officer. In 1936 she was elected to the Royal Academy of Language and Literature of Belgium.  In 1945 she was the first woman to be elected to the Académie Goncourt, and in 1949 she was made its president. The National Institute of Arts and Letters in the USA awarded her its diploma. In 1951 her novel Gigi, (1944), was produced as a Broadway show starring Audrey Hepburn. A US film was made in 1958. When she died Colette became the first woman to be honoured with a French state funeral.

Bio from The Knitting Circle http://www.sbu.ac.uk/~stafflag

For More on Colette
 

• Another Colette biography on site

•  SAPPHO COMES TO PARIS

• 1920's Paris/ THE LEFT BANK

• List of Colette work

Cushman, Charlotte (Saunders) (1816 - 1876)  Stage actress; born in Boston, Mass. One of the first major native-born American actresses, she began as an opera singer but turned to acting after she overstrained her voice; the vocal damage left her with a husky, veiled quality that she used to great advantage, often playing male roles. Her earliest triumph was as Lady Macbeth in 1836. By 1842 she was managing as well as starring at the Walnut Street Theater in Philadelphia. Earnest and ambitious, she went off to England on her own and in 1845 instantly became the toast of the London stage, although some found her style exaggerated. She acquired a large range of classic roles including Romeo and Hamlet but her most popular role was as Meg Merrilies in an adaptation of Scott's Guy Mannering. Until 1870, she lived in England or Rome, only appearing in America on tour; returning to the U.S.A., she performed occasionally, climaxing with a triumphal farewell tour in 1874--75.

Cusham made a second career out of sponsoring young women art students who, like herself earlier, now hungered for expression and recognition, in her Rome apartment. Some of Cushman's many protegées were sculptors, Emma Stebbins and Edmonia Lewis. Julia Ward Howe said it first. In Charlotte Cushman's triumph as a woman, she declared, "I feel much better about womankind."

When asked why--on three different occasions--she had rejected   proposals of marriage, she was explicit: God had indicated her purpose by   endowing her with a talent. Otherwise, she explained, "I should have been   casting about for the 'counter-part' and not given my entire self to my  work." If most women looked to marriage as their one end in life, so be it,  but it "would not have been wisest and best for my work, and so for  God's."

Links to Charlotte Cushman on the net
 

• A feminist ahead of her time (Charlotte Cushman)

• Charlotte Cushman 1816 - 1876 (biography)

• The life and times of Charlotte Cushman

• Link to Charlotte Cushman,

William Page Oil on canvas, 1853 28 1/2 x 22 inches
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

• Bright Particular Star The Life & Times of Charlotte Cushman A Full Text Book Online and Free, about the Life of Charlotte Cushman!

• Page from New York Daily Graphic Charlotte Cushman

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) was a strange woman, to say the least She was born in Amherst to a prominent family. She was educated at Amerherst Academy, the institution her grandfather helped found. She spent a year at the Mt. Holyoke Female Seminary,(now Mount Holyoke College) but left because she didn't like the religious environment and because her parents asked her home.

In her 20's she led a busy social life, but started to become more and more reclusive with each passing year. By the time Emily was in her 30's, she was completely reclusive, never leaving her home and withdrawing when visitors came. People who did happen to catch a glimpse of her said that she was always wearing white clothing. Still hungry for communication with other people, she wrote letters to a great number of family and friends. She often included poetry in her letter to friends, who encouraged her to publish her works. Emily did try to publish once in 1860, but did not try again after she was told by the editor that she should wait a while and then try again.

There were 8 poems which were published in her lifetime, however, they were poems which had been submitted by her friends without her permission. Some people have suggested that she was in love with Samuel Bowles, an editor of a prominent local newspaper. Others have suggested that she had a relationship with Judge Otis Lorde. It is known, however, that Emily wrote hundreds of poems about Susan Gilbert. Susan was Emily's friend, eventual sister-in-law, and her passionate love. They meet in Amherst. They hit it off from the beginning. Emily wrote romantic letters to Susan until her engagement to Austin Dickinson, Emily's brother. For 2 years they stopped writing all together until Susan and Austin moved into the home next door at which time they began to correspond again and Emily continued her expressions of worshipful love. Upon Emily's death, Susan's letters were destroyed so it is impossible to know if Susan ever returned Emily's feelings in any way.

After Emily died in 188, some of her poems where found on scraps of paper tucked inside of her mattress, most without names. (As a result, many of her poems are known by numbers or by their first line.) Emily's sister persuaded M.L. Todd to edit Emily's poems, and some feminist scholars believe that female pronouns to some of her poems were edited out at this time. Todd published a small portion of the poems in 1890, and his daughter and Emily's niece published more of her poems later on. But because of a fued in the family, the entire collection was not published until 1955. Today, Emily would have probably been diagnosed with some sort of mental illness and could have been treated for the problems she was forced to live through.

• Emily Dickinson biography, another biography

•  Virtual Emily

• Emily Dickenson works online (Biographies and 460 poems online)

• The Emily Dickinson Random Epigram Machine

•  A brief Publishing History by Tim Morris
• The Dickinson Homestead. Another description of it.

• Summary of the Annenberg/CPB Project's program on Dickinson

and comments on her life
 
• Emily Dickinson International Society (EDIS)

• Dickinson Electronic Archives

Alix Dobkin / Folk Singer "Long, long ago, maybe even before you were born, way far back in the late 1950's... Philadelphia was a hotbed of do-it- yourself culture, magnetizing folk music on the East Coast... and I was a teenaged guitar-totin', card-carrying comrade grounding myself in mushrooming crowds of progressive Jews, self-taught musicians and other local subversives.  Immediately after graduating from the Tyler School of Fine Arts I headed east to NYC's world-famous Gaslight Cafe, and from that rich, heady, heart of Greenwich Village in the early '60's, I launched my full-time, professional folk singing career. Focusing during the first decade on an international and contemporary/ protest repertory, I came out as a Lesbian in 1972 and turned to writing and singing for women in general and to building Lesbian Culture in particular.

Over the last 25 years I have traveled to hundreds of women's communities in this country and in many others. It has been my privilege and pleasure to gather elements of our common culture and to create a body of songs and workshops to share with you, honoring and reflecting our unique Lesbian style, substance, issues and values.  I currently have six albums and one songbook to my name, was voted "All Time Favorite Performer" by Hot Wire magazine, and have been called "Head Lesbian"! If you aren't already familiar with my work, I hope you will soon be. "    -Alix Dobin   *bio and image from laddies slippers
 

Links on the net
 

• Lesbian FolkSinger gives voice to Jewish upbring        www.netaxs.com/~elkin/lesbian.html

• Lavender Jane Loves Womens Music

www.geocities.com/WestHollywood/Village/1410/toc.html

Hilda Doolittle (aka H.D.) (1886-1961) was a bisexual poet and novelist. Her loves included Ezra Pound, Frances Josepha Gregg, Richard Aldington, and Bryher (Annie Winifred Ellerman). She was greatly influenced by Sappho. She extensively studied Greek religion and mythology as well as spiritualism, numerology, Tarot, and the Qabbalah. She was a client of Sigmund Freud and as a result also became very knowledgable of dream interpretation. She may have also been gynandrous or transgendered. Her works include the poem "The Master.

H.D. links on the net

• The H.D. Homepage

• H.D., A Brief Biography

• Another Hilda Doolittle Webpage

• Links to 12 poems by H.D.

• Hymen (a 47 page online book of poetry by H.D. for her lover Bryher)

• Links to H.D.’s Poetry online

• Sea Poppies (A Poem by H.D.)

Nicole Eisenman was born in 1963. She is a painter. Eisenman studied at the Rhode School of Design. She had a job for awhile painting commerical murals, at one point doing a mural a month. Later on she painted on walls in ink. Eisenman calls these paintings ' wall drawings' and some have a polictical slant to them.
 
 

Winifred Ellerman ( 1894- 1983)  or  better know as Bryher  was  active in European films, papers of lesbian and feminist.  She was also at one time a lover of Hilda Doolittle (H.D.).was a lifelong friend, companion, and love of H.D.'s. A novelist, active in early European film, papers of hers are at the Beinecke Library at Yale.

 See more Bryher links on the net
 

• Hymen (a 47 page online book of poetry by H.D. for Bryher)

• Bryer (writer) Bryer Biography

• Information on the Bryher papers may be found on the Beinecke Library website.

• There is also correspondence from Bryher, and H.D., in the Oswell Blakeston Papers at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, at UT Austin.

• Close up (1927-1933, v.1-10, Geneva and London), the first magazine devoted to the history, theory, criticism and aethetics of film, edited by Bryher and Kenneth MacPherson, has been reprinted and is offered for sale by Ayer Company Publishers.

• The essay Superior Guinea Pig : Bryher and Psychoanalysis by Maggie Magee, M.S.W., and Diana C. Miller, M.D., is an abbreviated version of chapter 8 of Psychoanalysis and Lesbian Relationships: Narratives Old and New (The Analytic Press, 1997).

Melissa Etheridge is an out lesbian, a popular rock star, a song writer, and the woman who married Julie Cypher. They both wore wedding dresses at their wedding and recently, several years after their wedding, Julie gave birth to their first child. Prior to the child's birth, while Melissa was on tour, she showed a sonagram picture on a screen behind the stage and often referred to it as "the baby tour". Many of the concert-goers threw baby gifts on the stage during the concert. Melissa has said that she and Julie do plan on having more children in the future and that she will consider carrying their next child.
 

More on the net

• Lavender Jane Loves Womens Music

www.geocities.com/WestHollywood/Village/1410/toc.html

 Maxine Feldman is a lesbian song writer and singer. Her song "Angry Atthis" was the first lesbian 45, released on January 26, 1972. Her other works include the album "Closet Sale" and the song "Amazon", which has been sung at Michigan's Wimmin's Music festival since 1976 and has been part of it's opening night for more than 18 years.
 
 
 

Janet Flanner was a lesbian writer and feminist. For many years she wrote for american magazines under the pen name "Genet" of the  explosion of artists in  THE LEFT BANK in Paris in the 1920's.
 

• Flanner photograhy in Paris / 1920's

Jodie Foster born in 1962, Alicia Christian Foster. Jodie Foster is a  actress, director and producer. She is not out publicly as a lesbian, but she is idolized as lesbian in  the queer community. Foster is most known for her work in films, but had been acting since a child in numerous television show. Even thought the film Taxi was not Foster first film (1975-76), it  was a monumental  for  her career.  She has received two Academy Awards. One for her for best actress in  The Accused, in 1988 and best actress for The Silence of the Lambs, in 1991. She directed the film Little Man Tate and produced the film Nell. She has a English Literature degree from Yale University.
 
 

Jeannette Foster was a widely known and respected lesbian/feminist activist and author. Her most notable work is the ground breaking Sex Variant Women in Literature.
 
 

Margaret Fuller was a writer, an educator, a feminist, a transcendentalist, and a rebel. She published several books, including Summer on the Lakes in 1844, Woman in the Nineteenth Century in 1845, and Papers on Literature and Art in 1846. She did have female lovers, but she married and later had a child with Giovanni Angelo.
 
 

Paula Gunn Allen |Alice Austin |Bernice Abbott |Josphine Baker |Djuna Barnes |Natalie Barney

 Gladys Bentley|Ruth Bernard |Tessa Boffin |Rosa Bonheur | Romaine Brooks|Rita Mae Brown

Wilma Cather | Claude Cahun |Meg Christian|Colette | Charolette Cushman | Emily Dicksinson

 Alix Dobkin | H.D. ( Hilda Doolitte)|Elana Nachman Dykewomen | Nicole Eisenman

 Bryher (Winifred Ellerman)|Melissa Etheridge |Maxline Feildman

Janet Flanner | Jennette Foster |J odie Foster