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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

Martine Giguère: from Québec, Canada, to the Pagoda in Florida

Martine Giguère looking cool in 1985, at the New England Women’s Musical Retreat. Photo by Beth Karbe

Martine’s Pagoda memories: the ocean, carpentry, and collaboration with lesbians there, which “got me on my feet and gave a direction to my life.”

Posted on July 17, 2023 Posted in Culture and the Arts, Lesbian Land Groups Tagged with Beth Karbe, Canada, ethnology, festival worker, Lesbian Land, MichFest, Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival, Montreal, NEWMR, peace activist, Quebec, St Augustine, the New England Women’s Musical Retreat, the Pagoda, Watermelon Pond

Dore Rotundo: Architect and Land Dyke

Dore Rotundo

Dore Rotundo, an original, broke barriers in architecture, created community, loved women, and always found ways to spread joy.

Posted on April 17, 2023 Posted in Culture and the Arts, Lesbian Land Groups, Social and Political Groups Tagged with architectural Design, Architecture, Building skills, Community, Corky Culver, discrimination, Dore Rotundo, feminism, Florida, Found Art, Gainesville Florida, gay marriage, John O’Connell Technical High School, lake swan, LEAP, Lesbian Land, Lesbians Empowered for Activism and Politics, life estate, Long Beach Washington, Marcella Benson, Martha Strozier, North Forty, Pagoda, Pat Paul, Rose Norman, San Francisco California, Santa Fe Community College, Sherry Emory, Speedville, St. Augustine, St. Petersburg Florida, University of Florida, Utica New York

Sandra Gail Lambert: Becoming A Writer

Sandra has been involved in many kinds of activism, including anti-racism through the Atlanta Lesbian Feminist Alliance (ALFA); Lesbians for Empowerment, Action, and Politics (LEAP); and anti-nuclear protests and peace activism; and disability rights actions in South Carolina and Florida.

Posted on February 27, 2023 Posted in Publishing, Publications, and Booksellers, Social and Political Groups Tagged with able-bodied, ALFA, anti-nuclear protest, anti-racism, Atlanta, Atlanta Lesbian Feminist Alliance, Atlanta’s Lesbian-Feminist Community, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Augusta, Black Women’s Health Project, Boogie Women Committee, Carolyn Mobley, Changer and the Changed, Charis Books and More, civil disobedience, Common Lives Lesbian Lives, Common Lives/Lesbian Lives, Connie May Fowler, Cris Williamson, Dee Liston, Disability and Intimacy, disability rights, disability rights consciousness, disabled, domestic violence, Emory, feminist bookstore, Feminist Bookstore News, fiction, Florida, Gainesville, Georgia State University, I Know You Know, incest, Jill Marsh, Karate, Kay Hagan, LEAP, Lesbian Land, Lesbian Readers Potluck, Lesbians for Empowerment Action and Politics, Linda Bryant, literary citizenship, Liz Hill, Mariana, Medical College of Georgia, Meg Christian, memoir, Norway, Oslo, peace activism, peace walk, Physician Assistant, polio, post-polio syndrome, Pteradyktil, River Plant, Sandra Gail Lambert, Sandra Lambert, Santa Fe College, Savannah, self-defense courses for women, Sherry Emory, Sinister Wisdom, social inequalities, Southern Voice, Suzanne Carlton, Swainsboro, The River’s Memory, wheelchair, Womonwrites, worker-owner

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

Martine Giguère: from Québec, Canada, to the Pagoda in Florida

Dore Rotundo: Architect and Land Dyke

Sandra Gail Lambert: Becoming A Writer