Phyllis Lyon, Lesbian author and activist, died of natural causes at the age of 95, on April 9, 2020. Lyon was born on November 10, 1924, in Tulsa, Oklahoma and grew up in Sacramento, California. She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, where she had been editor of the Daily Californian newspaper. Lyon continued … Read more
On February 21, 2020, author and publisher Lilian Mohin passed away. Lilian was a co-founder of Onlywomen Press in 1974. Independent lesbian feminist presses in the 1970s and 1980s were very important. In 1970, feminists tried to reject lesbians from their political and social action. Lesbians were a menace. We were distracting feminists from … Read more
Poet, academic and activist Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz was born in 1945 in Brooklyn, New York. Her parent adopted the surname Kaye prior to her birth; she later appended the family name Kantrowitz to Kaye, linking the two together with a slash to recognize the multigenerational and ethnic histories within her family and within the larger experiences … Read more