Judith Schwarz, Joan Nestle & Deborah Edel
Judith Schwarz
Judith Schwarz is a pioneering grassroots lesbian historian. She joined LHA in 1978, and discovered DOB in the mid 1960s.
Joan Nestle
From Joan Nestle's website: "Born in the Bronx, NYC in 1940 to a widowed Jewish mother, came out as a fem in the working class bars of Greenwich Village in the late 1950s, protested the HUAC, the Vietnam War... demonstrated for women's rights including abortion and Gay Liberation. In 1973 became co-founder of the LHA, in 1979 started writing erotic stories and in 1982 ran afoul fo the anti-pornography movement, thus becoming a fervent pro-sex activist. In 1966 I started teaching writing in the SEEK Program at Queens College and did not stop until cancer forced me to retire in 1995."
Deborah Edel
Deborah Edel was Joan Nestle's former partner. She co-founded the LHA and has been a Coordinator there for 40 years. She retired as Director of Admissions at the Mary McDowell Friends School. She was a Historical Consultant for the documentary Before Stonewall.
Judith Schwarz and Joan Nestle, Tape 1 of 1, November 14, 1992
The interview begins with Judith Schwarz and her recollections of the late 1950s and early 1960s, and how she knew of women who were hesitant to join Daughters of Bilitis, as they simply wanted to meet women at the bar, and feared their names appearing with labels publicly.