Showcase - Southern Lesbian Feminist Activist Herstory Project

The Pagoda: A Lesbian Community by the Sea–Interview with the Book’s Author, Rose Norman

The Pagoda was a lesbian residential community and cultural center on the beach near St. Augustine, Florida, from 1977 to 1999. Rose Norman interviewed founders, residents, and guests for the story of how it came to be and how it lasted so long.

Posted on December 6, 2023 Posted in Lesbian Land Groups, Lesbian-Owned Enterprises, Publishing, Publications, and Booksellers, Social and Political Groups, Social Justice, Women’s Health, and Social Services, Spirituality and Religion Tagged with Alapine, alcoholism, Changing the Hymns to Hers, controversial issues, cultural center, Deeply Held Beliefs, Dykewriters, Elethia, Emily Greene, Flash Silvermoon, Gaia’s Guide, Gainesville Florida, Goddess church, healing place, Heresies, incorporated feminist church, intentional communities, Landykes of the South, Lavender, Lee Lanning, lesbian battering, lesbian community, Lesbian Connection, lesbian culture and community movements, Lesbian Home Movie Project, Lesbian Land, Lesbianima Rising, Martha Strozier, mental health counselors, Merril Mushroom, Morgana, Nett Hart, no boy children allowed, on the beach, Pagoda cottages, Pagoda story for Landykes of the South, Pagoda supporter, Rainbow Williams, Ree’s Seashore Cottages, Rena Carney, Rose Norman, sadomasochism, Second Sunays, separatism, shared mortgage, Sharon Thompson, Shorty Res, Sinister Wisdom, Southern Lesbian Activist Herstory Project, St Augustine Florida, Sugarloaf, SW104, tax-exempt, temple of Love, The Backstage Bar, The Mother Church in Florida, the Pagoda, The Pagoda: A Lesbian Community By The Sea, theatre at the Pagoda, Toni Head, University of Florida archive, vegetarian, Wiccan feminist spirituality, women’s music circuit, women’s studies, Womonwrites, WordWeavers

Lissa LeGrand and Magnolia Productions: Building Lesbian Community Through Music and the Arts in Birmingham, Alabama

My environmental activist side has never gone away. It’s just that for a number of years, feminist activism took precedence. I feel as if I’m coming home now, coming back these last fifteen years or so, to farming, studying, research, and growing things.

Posted on December 5, 2023 Posted in Culture and the Arts, Social and Political Groups Tagged with 9th Annual Southeastern Conference of Lesbians and Gay Men April 1984, AIDS, Alabama NOW, All Things Considered, Apple Bookstore, ASL Interpreter, Birmingham Alabama, Birmingham-Southern College in Alabama Women’s Studies, Carol Griffin, Casselberry & Dupree, City Editor of the Birmingham Post-Herald, Cris Williams, Dan Gainey, Debbie Diehl, Deidre McCalla, Diane Lindsey, Fabulous Dyketones, Harry Wingfield, Holly Near, Hulsey Hall at University of Alabama in Birmingham, Jan Riley, Janet Snyder, Josie Grable, Joy Godsey, June Holloway, June Millington, Kathy Johnson, Kay and Bootsie, Kay Crutcher, Kay Virago, Lodestar, Louise Kessel, Magnolia Jams, Magnolia Mama, Magnolia Productions, Magnolia Women’s Music Collective/Magnolia Productions, Marathon, March on Washington for Lesbian Gay and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation in 1993, Marty Billingsley, Meg Christian, Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival, Mindy Norton, Minnie Bruce Pratt, Nancy Beatty, Nashville Tennessee, Orchid Productions, Parliament House, Polly Kratt, pure feminist ethic, Regina Cates, Robin Flower, Second Sundays, Sherry Atkinson, Tags: Lissa LeGrand, TD Russell, The Janes, Third Thursday, Tret Fure, Vanderbilt University in Nashville Tennessee, WBHM FM Public Radio, Willie Tyson

Laurel Ferejohn: Building Lesbian Community

Laurel Ferejohn at Table Rock Writers Workshop in 2018

A believer in the power of community-oriented periodicals, Laurel Ferejohn helped create the The Newsletter, a vital, lesbian underground publication.

Posted on October 30, 2023 Posted in Publishing, Publications, and Booksellers, Social and Political Groups Tagged with “Community Connections”, “The Newsletter”, 1986 Durham mayoral antirecall effort, antiracism discussion group, Chapel Hill town council, Duke University LGBT Task Force, Durham Human Relations Commission, Durham Lesbian Feminist Community, Durham Morning Fishwrap, Durham Morning Herald, Durham North Carolina, Ellen Hines, Ferron, first annual gay and lesbian pride march in Durham in 1986, homophobia, Jack Adams, Joe Hertzenberg, Laurel Ferejohn, Lesbian and Gay Health Project, Loli Oates, Louise Kessel, Mandy Carter, NARAL Pro-Choice America, OOP, Our Own Place, Raleigh, Raleigh News and Observer, Reproductive Freedom for All, Rick Kaspar, Roxanne Seagraves, Tracy Drach, Triangle Lesbian Gay Alliance, Trillium, U.S. Senator Jesse Helms, WRAL

Patricia R. Corbett: Girl in a Tie

Patricia R. Corbett with a framed poster for Fall of the House of Snow

It is my goal to fight harder for human rights than individual rights; and to leave a legacy of love and of the value of community service for my family.

Posted on October 3, 2023 Posted in Culture and the Arts, Social Justice, Women’s Health, and Social Services Tagged with Aunt Maggies MoJo and the Devil Angel Brown, Black invisible lesbian, Black protest writers, Brown Girls in the Ring, civil rights activist, dramaturg, Fall of the House of Snow, Gladys Bentley, Goddard College, Harlem Renaissance, Harriet Jacobs, Jacqui Singleton, JustaSISTA, Maryland State Arts Council award, Patricia R Corbett, Perils of a Southern Black Woman: stories tales and nightmares told in the light, Phil Crosby, playwright, Rap Brown, Rev Linwood Corbett Sr, Richmond Triangle Players, Richmond Virginia, Sisters Rising Mentoring Organization, Stokely Carmichael, storytelling, transgender Barbie, Virginia Christian, Warehouse Theatre Washington DC, Why I Hate the Circus