She said, “Sexuality is a part of life and it’s something that readers are interested in as far as characters… Love scenes are unparalleled opportunities to characterize a major character and bring out aspects of them that you can’t in normal everyday scenes.”Of her personal political sensibilities, Forrest said, “We are the only subculture that incorporates both genders, all races, all colors, all creeds… Being visible can make us free…and give us a power we have never known.” Forrest is credited with bringing open and realistic eroticism to lesbian fiction and to the detective genre. Forrest’s lesbian romance novel Curious Wine is a lesbian classic. Also a longtime editor, Forrest shepherded hundreds of works of lesbian fiction through Naiad Press and Spinster’s Ink. Forrest is the author of nearly 20 novels, including the Kate Delafield mystery series. The multiple Lambda Literary Award winner changed genre writing with her lesbian detective series, considered the first in the crime genre.
Here are 10 lesbians in their 70s and 80s whose work has had a lasting impact on their communities and on LGBTQ culture and society.
Women’s history is also lesbians who have made history in our living present and whose names and achievements you should know about and celebrate and not allow to fade into obscurity. Congresswoman Barbara Jordan, civil rights leader and attorney, first woman and first Black person elected to Congress from Texas and partnered with the same woman for over 30 years.Īnd women’s history is not just about the figures of our past-important and impactful as they might be. Sally Ride, first American woman in space, astrophysicist and life-long lesbian partnered with the same woman for nearly 30 years. Alice Hamilton, founder of industrial medicine and the precursor to OSHA and a pioneering activist in labor legislation, civil liberties, and world peace. Jane Addams, the founder of modern social work, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize and co-founder of the NAACP, who was in two long-term relationships with other women. Anthony, whose erotic letters to her female lovers are steamy even by today’s standards. Like suffragist and abolitionist Susan B. Women’s History Month should also centre the contributions of queer historical women.
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