Mary Alice Stout: Teacher, Administrator, Entrepreneur, Landyke
In mid-career, Mary Alice Stout left a successful professional job in Tennessee to follow her heart to rural South Carolina and off-the-grid Alabama.
Author: Barb Parks
Martine Giguère: from Québec, Canada, to the Pagoda in Florida
Martine Giguère looking cool in 1985, at the New England Women’s Musical Retreat.
Photo by Beth Karbe
Martine’s Pagoda memories: the ocean, carpentry, and collaboration with lesbians there, which “got me on my feet and gave a direction to my life.”Â
Mindy Dyke: Leaving New York and Finding the Miami Dykes
Mindy Dyke sought out the dykes when she moved from the Bronx to Miami when she was twenty-two, and did she ever find them!
Mary Sims and the Miami Lesbian Task Force
Mary Sims describes the powerful activism of Miami’s Lesbian Task Force of the National Organization for Women (NOW) during the 1970s when focused on creating positive images of lesbians.