When we were outlaws : a memoir of love & revolution / Jeanne Córdova.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Midway, FL : Spinsters Ink, 2011.Edition: 1st Spinsters Ink edDescription: xix, 436 p. : ill. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9781935226512
  • 1935226517
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 813/.54 B 23
LOC classification:
  • PS3553.O64554 Z46 2011
Awards:
  • American Library Association Stonewall Book Awards, 2013 - Honor.
  • Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Non-fiction (Triangle Award)
  • Lambda Literary Award, 2011: Lesbian Memoir/Biography.
Summary: A sweeping memoir, a raw and intimate chronicle of a young activist torn between conflicting personal longings and political goals. Offers a rare view of the life of a radical lesbian during the early cultural struggle for gay rights, Women's Liberation, and the New Left of the 1970s. Brash and ambitious, activist Jeanne Córdova is living with one woman and falling in love with another, but her passionate beliefs tell her that her first duty is "to the revolution"--to change the world and end discrimination against gays and lesbians. Trying to compartmentalize her sexual life, she becomes an investigative reporter for the famous, underground L.A. Free Press and finds herself involved with covering the Weather Underground and Angela Davis; exposing neo-Nazi bomber Captain Joe Tomassi, and befriending Emily Harris of the Symbionese Liberation Army. At the same time she is creating what will be the center of her revolutionary lesbian world: her own newsmagazine, The Lesbian Tide, destined to become the voice of the national lesbian feminist movement. By turns provocative and daringly honest, Córdova renders emblematic scenes of the era--from strike protests to utopian music festivals, to underground meetings with radical fugitives--with period detail and evocative characters. For those who came of age in the '70s, and for those who weren't around but still ask 'What was it like?'--this book takes you back to re-live it. It also offers insights about ethics, decision making and strategy, still relevant today. With an introduction by renowned lesbian historian Lillian Faderman, this book paints a vivid portrait of activism and the search for self-identity, set against the turbulent landscape of multiple struggles for social change that swept hundreds of thousands of Americans into the streets.
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A sweeping memoir, a raw and intimate chronicle of a young activist torn between conflicting personal longings and political goals. Offers a rare view of the life of a radical lesbian during the early cultural struggle for gay rights, Women's Liberation, and the New Left of the 1970s. Brash and ambitious, activist Jeanne Córdova is living with one woman and falling in love with another, but her passionate beliefs tell her that her first duty is "to the revolution"--to change the world and end discrimination against gays and lesbians. Trying to compartmentalize her sexual life, she becomes an investigative reporter for the famous, underground L.A. Free Press and finds herself involved with covering the Weather Underground and Angela Davis; exposing neo-Nazi bomber Captain Joe Tomassi, and befriending Emily Harris of the Symbionese Liberation Army. At the same time she is creating what will be the center of her revolutionary lesbian world: her own newsmagazine, The Lesbian Tide, destined to become the voice of the national lesbian feminist movement. By turns provocative and daringly honest, Córdova renders emblematic scenes of the era--from strike protests to utopian music festivals, to underground meetings with radical fugitives--with period detail and evocative characters. For those who came of age in the '70s, and for those who weren't around but still ask 'What was it like?'--this book takes you back to re-live it. It also offers insights about ethics, decision making and strategy, still relevant today. With an introduction by renowned lesbian historian Lillian Faderman, this book paints a vivid portrait of activism and the search for self-identity, set against the turbulent landscape of multiple struggles for social change that swept hundreds of thousands of Americans into the streets.

American Library Association Stonewall Book Awards, 2013 - Honor.

Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Non-fiction (Triangle Award)

Lambda Literary Award, 2011: Lesbian Memoir/Biography.

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