Terry Joan Baum (born 1946) is an American feminist playwright, known for her treatment of lesbian experience. [1]
Terry Joan Baum (born 1946) is an American feminist playwright, known for her treatment of lesbian experience. [1]
In 1970, Baum worked as a personal aide to Bella Abzug in her Congressional campaign. In 1972, at the University of California, Santa Barbara graduate school, Baum founded the Isla Vista Community Theater. She founded Lilith, a San Francisco women's theater collective, in 1974. [1]
Her comedy revue Dos Lesbos, written with Carolyn Myers, opened in Ollie's bar in Oakland, California in 1981. It ran for two years in the San Francisco Bay Area and Santa Cruz, California, and was anthologised in the Places, Please (1985), the pioneering anthology of lesbian plays, edited by Kate McDermott. [2]
From 1985 to 1994, she lived some of the time in Amsterdam. [3] In 2004 Baum ran for Congress against Nancy Pelosi as a write-in candidate, after losing a legal battle to be listed on the ballot. [4] She subsequently wrote a play about the experience, Baum for Peace. In 2011 she stood for the Green Party in the San Francisco mayoral election, coming 11th with under 1% of the vote. [5]
In July, 2014 in San Francisco, Baum opened a solo show, HICK: A Love Story, The Romance of Lorena Hickok and Eleanor Roosevelt. Co-written by Baum and Pat Bond, HICK was about the love affair between first lady Eleanor Roosevelt and the journalist Lorena Hickok. It was based on the 2336 letters Roosevelt had written to Hickok, her friend and confidante. After a much-lauded San Francisco run, HICK played in the New York International Fringe Festival where it earned "Fringe Fave" and was selected by the Fringe Encore Series to have a run in an off-Broadway theatre. [6]
Lorena Alice "Hick" Hickok was an American journalist and long-term friend and possibly romantic partner of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt.
Blanche Wiesen Cook is a historian and professor of history. She is a recipient of the Bill Whitehead Award.
First Lady Suite is a chamber musical by Michael John LaChiusa. The musical contains four separate segments about four of the First Ladies of the United States of America and the people surrounding them. They are: Eleanor Roosevelt, Mamie Eisenhower, Bess Truman, and Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy. It premiered Off-Broadway in 1993.
The Bay Area Reporter is a free weekly LGBT newspaper serving the LGBT communities in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is one of the largest-circulation LGBT newspapers in the United States, and the country's oldest continuously published newspaper of its kind.
Valerie Taylor was an American author of books published in the lesbian pulp fiction genre, as well as poetry and novels after the "golden age" of lesbian pulp fiction. She also published as Nacella Young, Francine Davenport, and Velma Tate. Her publishers included Naiad Press, Banned Books, Universal, Gold Medal Books, Womanpress, Ace and Midwood-Tower.
OutNow Newsmagazine, also known as ON and ON Magazine was a monthly lifestyle magazine that targeted lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) members of the gay community in the San Francisco Bay Area. OutNow had been published since 1992 from its headquarters in San Jose, California, in the Silicon Valley.
Lesbian literature is a subgenre of literature addressing lesbian themes. It includes poetry, plays, fiction addressing lesbian characters, and non-fiction about lesbian-interest topics. A similar term is sapphic literature, encompassing works that feature love between women that are not necessarily lesbian.
Nellie Wong is an American poet and activist for feminist and socialist causes. Wong is also an active member of the Freedom Socialist Party and Radical Women.
Pat Bond was an American actress who starred on stage, television and movies. She was openly lesbian and in many cases she was the first gay woman people saw on stage. Her career spanned some 40 years.
Jewelle Lydia Gomez is an American author, poet, critic and playwright. She lived in New York City for 22 years, working in public television, theater, as well as philanthropy, before relocating to the West Coast. Her writing—fiction, poetry, essays and cultural criticism—has appeared in a wide variety of outlets, both feminist and mainstream. Her work centers on women's experiences, particularly those of LGBTQ women of color. She has been interviewed for several documentaries focused on LGBT rights and culture.
Elana Dykewomon was an American lesbian activist, author, editor, and teacher. She was a recipient of the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction.
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Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was an American political figure, diplomat, and activist. She was the first lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945, during her husband Franklin D. Roosevelt's four terms as president, making her the longest-serving first lady of the United States. Through her travels, public engagement, and advocacy, she largely redefined the role of first lady. Roosevelt then served as a United States Delegate to the United Nations General Assembly from 1945 to 1952, and took a leading role in designing the text and gaining international support for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In 1948, she was given a standing ovation by the assembly upon their adoption of the declaration. President Harry S. Truman later called her the "First Lady of the World" in tribute to her human rights achievements.
Kris Kovick was an American writer, cartoonist, and printer based in California.
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The San Francisco Fringe Festival, or SF Fringe, is a fringe theater festival produced by the EXIT Theatre in San Francisco. It is one of the oldest fringe festivals in the United States. It takes place over the course of two weeks every September.
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Angela Bocage is a bisexual comics creator who published mainly in the 1980s and 1990s. Bocage was active in the queer comics community during these decades, publishing in collections like Gay Comix,Strip AIDS USA, and Wimmen's Comix. Bocage also created, edited, and contributed comics to Real Girl, a comics anthology published by Fantagraphics.
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