Showcase - Southern Lesbian Feminist Activist Herstory Project

Bonnie Netherton: Traveling a Winding Path to Women’s Community

Bonnie Netherton in the rowboat she used to travel back and forth to her Chinese junk, Ming Meng

The very best years of my life were the years that I lived on the water, on the boat. I think of those years as the best, the best I ever lived.

Posted on January 30, 2023 Posted in Lesbian Land Groups Tagged with ALFA, Atlanta, Atlanta Lesbian Feminist Alliance, Barbara Deming, Barbara Deming Money for Women Fund, Barbara Lieu, Blue Lunden, Bonnie Netherton, Chicago, Chinese junk, Coast Guard, consciousness raising groups, feminist lawyer, Florida, Frances Pici, Ft Lauderdale, Gainesville, Georgia, Harriett Green, Hurricane Wilma, Jewish, joint custody, Key West, LaGuardia Airport, Latvia, Lavender Lieu, Lesbian Connection, lesbian hotel, Manhattan, Margie Pitts Hames, Mermaid Inn, Mexico, Mickey Alberts, Ming Meng, Mobile Alabama, Morgana, New Orleans, New York City, New Yorker, Pagoda, Pearls, Pici, pograms, Rainbow Williams, real estate license, Red Dyke Theatre, San Francisco, Sandy Hagan, school bus, scooter, Skyler Maxwell, St Simons Island, Star, storm surge, Sugarloaf Community, Sugarloaf Key, Sugarloaf Womens Village, Wilma, Womens Peace Walk

Flash Silvermoon: Spiritual Renaissance Feminist

Flash Silvermoon rocking with Flash Silvermoon and the Blues Sisters in the 1990s at the University Club, Gainesville, Florida's main gay bar.

Psychic, astrologer, healer, feminist activist; gifted musician and singer, spiritually connected to animals, blazing through life with her red hair bold as her character.

Posted on January 16, 2023 Posted in Culture and the Arts, Publishing, Publications, and Booksellers, Spirituality and Religion Tagged with animal communicator, Ayoka, Bahira Sugarman, Barbara Vogel, battered women’s shelters, Bonnie and Clyde’s Lesbian Bar, Corky Culver, Deborah Kotler, Denise Burnsed, EARS Inc animal sanctuary, Flash Silvermoon, Florida Feminist Festival, Georg Suzuki, Greenwich Village, Janis Joplin, Janis Joplin and Me: Forty Years of Music and Magic, Jungle Friends Primate Sanctuary, Kay Gardner, Lifetime Companions: Love Never Dies, Medusa Muzic, Melrose Florida, Moonhaven Mystery School of Earth Magic for Women, Nancy Littman, Omialadora Ajamu, Pandora Lightmoon, Phases of the Silver Moon, Rainbow Goddess, Red House, Sadie Darnell, SPARC (Sexual and Physical Abuse Resource Center), Take Back the Night, Tara Allen, The Blues Sisters, The Planetary Handbook, vibrational healer, Visions of a New Deck, Wise Woman’s Festival, Wise Woman’s Tarot, Woman Spirit Rising, Z Budapest, Zsuzsanna Budapest

The Gazette: Changing Lives One Issue at a Time

Rand Hall in 1998

“Without communication there is no community.” – Rand Hall

Posted on December 26, 2022 Posted in Lesbian-Owned Enterprises, Publishing, Publications, and Booksellers Tagged with abuse of women, Bible Belt, gay and lesbian chamber of commerce, lesbian organizing, Marietta Georgia, Nancy Valmus, newsletters, newspapers, Rand Hall, Tampa Florida, the Gazette

Corky Culver and the Women’s Peace Walk, 1983-1984

The Women’s Peace Walk celebrates finally arriving in Key West, Florida. From left to right: Lynda Lou Simmons (facing the camera), Pam Smith, Rainbow Williams, Robin Ferguson (holding the Women’s Peace Walk banner), Sandy Cosgrave (looking up), Kate Gallagher (clapping), Gail Mayes, Dixie Biggs, Weed Roy (wearing “stop the bomb racket” poster), Jean Frances (making peace sign), Sandra Lambert, unidentified woman in a rainbow tam, and Sandy Malone.

Corky Culver joins the Gainesville Women’s Peace Walk, an act of courageous defiance, a 41-day journey down the east coast of Florida, from Gainesville to Key West.

Posted on December 8, 2022 Posted in Social and Political Groups, Social Justice, Women’s Health, and Social Services Tagged with antinuclear, Barbara Deming, consensus, disarmament, Florida, Gainesville, Girl Scout Camp, Jane Doe, Key West, meditation, peace activism, peace walk, Savannah River Nuclear Plant Blockade, Savannah River Site, the Jane Does, Women’s Peace Walk