Southern lesbian-feminist activists with lesbian-owned businesses
Faye Williams, founder of Sisterspace and Books in Washington, D.C. has spent her adult life organizing in support of her community and actively resisting
racism, fascism, and other antidemocratic forces.
Mandy Carter, Southern Black lesbian activist and worker for the War Resisters League, marched for peace, helped start SONG, and coproduced Rhythm Fest, a “workers festival.”
Corky Culver has been a leader and a documenter since the early days of modern lesbian feminism, cofounding a women’s land group, organizing cultural and political events (especially peace activism), publishing poetry, and singing with others at every possible opportunity.
Lenny Lasater was a trailblazer for women, first in the Birmingham coal mines, then, in the trade union for electricians, The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, when she was in Nashville, Tennessee, and later, in Atlanta, Georgia. She formed her own business, Lenny Lasater Electrical, in Atlanta, where she also got clean and sober. Also, she started a band that is now called “Just Roxie.” Throughout, she has been out and proud of who she is, “a very butch lesbian.”