Miami Dyke Stories
Merril Mushroom provides the herstorical context from the 1950s and 1960s out of which Miami lesbian activism grows.
Category: Social and Political Groups
Southern lesbian-feminist activists in social and political groups
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 Miamiâs Lesbian Task Force of the National Organization for Women (NOW) during the 1970s when focused on creating positive images of lesbians.
Falcon River: An Amazing Appalachian
Falcon River being nuzzled by her horse, Flame, in 2005
Thereâs nothing about me thatâs masculine. Every aspect of me, at the cellular level, is female. I was born female; I live female. Butch women like me embody the full spectrum of womanhood.