Lorraine Fontana

• Mobley-izing for Change
• Carolyn Mobley-Bowie: Spiritual Warrior-Singer
• Saralyn Chesnut of the Atlanta Lesbian Feminist Alliance (ALFA)
• ALFA group interview
• Mary Anne Adams: Champion for Change interview
• Sandra Lambert interview
• Jan Gibson interview

Lorraine Fontana is a working-class dyke from Queens, New York. Since early on, she has supported the civil rights movement, Black empowerment, and anti-war activism.

After graduating from Queens College, City University of New York, Lorraine Fontana came to Atlanta in 1968, where she joined VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America), which was part of the war on poverty that led to the Economic Opportunity Act. While attending Emory graduate school there, she came out as a lesbian among other leftist feminist women who founded the Atlanta Lesbian Feminist Alliance (ALFA) in 1972.

Lorraine Fontana later used her legal training from the People’s College of Law (1976-79), and her JD from Atlanta Law School (1981), when working at Georgia Legal Services, at the EEOC, and at Lambda Legal.