Browse Items (4 total)

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  Pat Turner, December 31, 1987 (Tape 2)
  

  Tags Catholic Lesbians, Christianity, Daughters of Bilitis, Identity, Mailing Lists, Pat Turner
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  Stella Rush & Helen Sandoz, May 15, 1987 (Tape 3)

  Stella Rush and Helen Sandoz are interviewed in 1987. The interview mostly concerns Stella Rush, who talks about her childhood; specifically her encounters with incest and molestation. She also talks about her experiences with police discrimination in the 1950s and 1960s in L.A. Helen and Stella both talk about being editors of the Ladder and being a part of the DOB. Stella talks about workplace harassment, and fear of loser her job. They show photographs from the 1960s, including some of their cat. The video closes with the two discussing their wedding rings.

  Tags Bars, Christianity, Discrimination, Families, Gay Liberation Movement, Hate Crimes, Helen Sandoz, Homosexuality, Incest, Intergenerational Relationships, Job Discrimination, Lesbian and Gay Civil Rights, Mailing Lists, Mental Health, Mothers, Older Lesbians, Parents of Lesbians and Gays, Police Harassment, Radical Lesbians, Rape, Religion, Sexual Assault, Stella Rush, The Ladder, Violence, Women
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  Karen Ryer Anderson

  Karen Anderson Ryer discusses her coming out process, and the acceptance of her parents. She talks about butch vs. fem, and changing generational attitudes. Discusses importance of feminism to lesbianism specifically, and differences from gay men’s movement. She details the split of “The Ladder” from the San Francisco chapter from DOB, and how she left to start a new magazine. Also mentions the integration of different lesbian communities – Oakland vs. San Francisco, and the impact of AIDS on the lesbian community.

  Tags Activism, Coming Out, Dating, Daughters of Bilitis, Film, Gay Men, Karen Anderson Ryer, Lesbian Writer, Mailing Lists, Separatism, The Ladder
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  LHA Daughters of Bilitis Video Project: Judith Schwarz and Joan Nestle, November 14, 1992 (Tape 1)

  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. She also discusses how women were hesitant to receive mail from Daughters of Bilitis for the same reason. She also talks about her first woman lover, and the circumstances that led to that.

  Tags Abortion, Bars, Joan Nestle, Judith Schwarz, Lesbian Studies, Mailing Lists, Manuela Soares