

“It was time to tell the women’s movement we would not be ignored any longer,” Jay wrote. Lesbian identity was not incorporated into its programming women of color and differing class would also take issue with the Congress’ homogeneous focus. The Congress, which featured an abundance of straight, white, middle and upper middle class women, had excluded any out lesbians as speakers that weekend. Together, they would decide to both craft a lesbian feminist manifesto called “The Woman-Identified Woman” and take on the Second Congress to Unite Women.

GLF women had begun to meet separately, and were also joined by members of the Women’s Liberation Movement at some meetings, which fought against patriarchal, social, and sexual norms they felt stifled women’s equality. So much of the group’s actions, they felt, had focused on the interests and rights of gay men.

Some had been active in the Gay Liberation Front (GLF), but in working with gay men had found themselves adrift, Lavender Menace member Ellen Shumsky wrote for Come Out! magazine in 19. OL4987808W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 95.00 Pages 422 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.20 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20230223111408 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 4571 Scandate 20230210130421 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 0515035459 Sent_to_scribe Tts_version 5.The “herring” remark, Jay wrote, inspired lesbian feminist activists toward action. Urn:lcp:outofclosetsvoic0000karl:lcpdf:e7d4a6e4-b842-46f5-979c-0135a0d2ccee Foldoutcount 0 Identifier outofclosetsvoic0000karl Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s2wrn8zxf6w Invoice 1652 Isbn 9780515035452 Metasource_catalog openlibrary Ocr tesseract 5.3.0-1-gd3a4 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9800 Ocr_module_version 0.0.18 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-NS-2000853 Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 00:11:13 Autocrop_version 0.0.14_books-20220331-0.2 Boxid IA40860006 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier
