The Gazette: Changing Lives One Issue at a Time
âWithout communication there is no community.â â Rand Hall
Southern lesbian-feminist activists with lesbian-owned businesses
âWithout communication there is no community.â â Rand Hall
Gerry Green cofounded a feminist counseling service and established Ameliaâs, a feminist bookstore, both in Gainesville, Florida, in the 1970s.
Motherâs Brew bar, managed by Jade River, was a lesbian-feminist cultural center for the Louisville, Kentucky region, and a safe space for lesbians.
Yer Girlfriend was a Louisville-based, lesbian band active from 1989 to 1996, with reunion concerts as recently as 2015. They recorded three albums: “We Won’t Be Silent!” (1989), “L-word Spoken Here” (1992), and “Not Afraid to Love” (1995), all published by Esther Records. In 2015, Rose Norman interviewed the two founders of the band, Carol Kraemer and Laura Shine. Four songs by Carol Kraemer are posted online at Sinister Wisdom (sinisterwisdom.org/YerGirlfriend), and Sinister Wisdom uses one of them, “The L-Word,” to begin and end Zoom readings from each new issue of this quarterly journal of lesbian arts and literature.