AIDS - Southern Lesbian Feminist Activist Herstory Project

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

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

Saralyn Chesnut of the Atlanta Lesbian Feminist Alliance (ALFA)

Saralyn Chesnut of the Atlanta Lesbian Feminist Alliance (ALFA)

Saralyn Chesnut is second from left in this photo from the 2013 Creating Change conference. Pat Hussain is at far right.

“ALFA’s lasting legacy is in women’s lives. The field of women’s studies was not just created by the feminist movement, but by the lesbian-feminist movement.”

Posted on May 19, 2022 Posted in Culture and the Arts, Publishing, Publications, and Booksellers, Social and Political Groups, Social Justice, Women’s Health, and Social Services Tagged with AIDS, Amanda Gable, Amy Darden (Estelle), Atalanta, butch and femme roles, Charis Books and More, Chris Carroll, communal households, Communist Party, dinner co-ops, drag queens, dyke march, EEOC, Eleanor Smith, Elizabeth Knowlton, Emory Office of LGBT Life, Feminary, Feminist Women’s Health Center, Gay and Lesbian Pride, gay liberation, gender, Georgians for the ERA, Hairy Hobbits, Hobbit Habit, Hummingbird Heights, Julia Penelope (Stanley), Lambda Legal, lesbian feminism, Little Five Points (L5P), Lorraine Fontana, mental illness, Moosewood Cookbook, National Gay Task Force, nonmonogamy, Our Bodies, Our Right to Love, Ourselves, patriarchy, pulp novels, racism, rap/Consciousness-raising groups, Reagan, Red Dyke Theatre, Rita Mae Brown, Rubyfruit Jungle, Sappho’s Quarry, Saralyn Chesnut, Sinister Wisdom, Southern Baptist, Stonewall riots, UGA, Vicki Gabriner, white southerner, woman-identified woman, Womansong Theatre, women in print movement, women’s movement, Women’s Policy Group, women’s softball, WRFG

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