This Lesbian World

“Sex, History & Lesbian Outlaws in the Bay Area” author Jeanne Cordova interviewed by songwriter Margie Adam.  Montclair Club, Oakland CA. Sunday, 4/29/12. SF / Bay Area launch of book, “When We Were Outlaws.”MARGIE:  Jeanne Córdova's memoir "When We Were Outlaws" takes place at a moment of great tr

Time to tear up your HRC cardFor the first time in 40 years, I’m ashamed to be gay.Last week the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), our country’s most well-funded national LGBT organization, named Goldman Sachs’ CEO, Lloyd Blankfein to be its “national corporate spokesman for same-sex marriage.” No, you d

For a 25 year old lesbian doin’ and sufferin’ through non-monogamous (polyamorous) relationships in 1974, Dory Previn’s hit album, “Dory Previn Live at Carnegie Hall” was a comfort and a relief to me. Here was another woman writing startling genius lyrics about some of my own traumas—my first Holy C

Malinda Lo just recently posted this quote from Jack Halberstam on her tumblrI’ve watched Dr. Jack Halberstam’s successive definitions of herself over recent years and wondered at how similar she and I are in terms of our butch identity. Yet when I posted a month ago that I also thought of myself as

Check out some of these Reviews for 'When We Were Outlaws: a Memoir of Love & Revolution'"A riveting unique first hand telling of a dangerous, fractious, creative lesbian time, the lesbian feminist 70s with their messy, sexy, bold social and personal visions live again on Cordova's pages; she was th