Lesbian Herstory Archives AudioVisual Collections

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  • Shear_A_Lesbian_Portrait_Side_1_Case.JPG

    A Lesbian Portrait consists of songs written by Linda Shear from 1972-1975. Shear, who requested that audiences for her performances be exclusively lesbian beginning in 1976, aimed to distribute A Lesbian Portrait through Lesbian-only networks. To support this goal, Shear and her then-partner Tryna Hope formed the distribution company Old Lady Blue Jeans. The album was released in 1977.

    Read the liner notes.

    1-1: Mama / Womanchild
    1-2: Goddesses And Other Truths
    1-3: Woman Let Go Now
    1-4: For Tryna
    1-5: Ninety
    1-6: Remember
  • Shear_A_Lesbian_Portrait_Side_2_Case.JPG

    A Lesbian Portrait consists of songs written by Linda Shear from 1972-1975. Shear, who requested that audiences for her performances be exclusively lesbian beginning in 1976, aimed to distribute A Lesbian Portrait through Lesbian-only networks. To support this goal, Shear and her then-partner Tryna Hope formed the distribution company Old Lady Blue Jeans. The album was released in 1977.

    Read the liner notes.

    2-1: Well Story – Spoken and Written by Tryna
    2-2: Well Song
    2-3: Old Woman
    2-4: Song to Myself/Portrait
    2-5: Family of Women
    2-6: Lesbian Wombmoon-Chant
  • LC036.jpeg

    The Furies was a group of twelve lesbian separatists in Washington, D.C. who saw heterosexual women as an obstacle in their feminism. Heterosexuality was as cyclical, and women in heterosexual relationships reinforced their oppression by absorbing the name and values of their male partners and moving them forward. The Furies published a newspaper, The Furies, that ran from 1972-1973.
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