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]
Patrick Califia is an American writer of non-fiction essays about sexuality and of erotic fiction and poetry. Califia is a bisexual trans man. Prior to transitioning, Califia identified as a lesbian and wrote for many years a sex advice column for the gay men's leather magazine Drummer. His writings explore sexuality and gender identity, and have included lesbian erotica and works about BDSM subculture. Califia is a member of the third-wave feminism movement.
Lorena Alice "Hick" Hickok was a pioneering American journalist and long-term romantic interest of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt.
Blanche Wiesen Cook is a historian and professor of history. She is a recipient of the Bill Whitehead Award.
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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 President Franklin D. Roosevelt's four terms in office, making her the longest-serving first lady of the United States. Roosevelt then served as a United States Delegate to the United Nations General Assembly from 1945 to 1952, and in 1948 she was given a standing ovation by the assembly upon their adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. President Harry S. Truman later called her the "First Lady of the World" in tribute to her human rights achievements.
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