Doug Ireland, an award-winning political journalist and media critic, has died. Ireland died in his New York City apartment on...
John Mitzel, owner of one of the country's last LGBT bookstores, Boston's Calamus Bookstore, has died. Read More
While many of Mead’s contemporaries from the Warhol days either died young or moved on to different things, Mead continued to live his eccentric and artistic life in lower Manhattan, painting, and writing poetry... Read More
It was compelling for the young lesbian-feminist reporter that I was, being in a country run by a woman. As a feminist, I wanted to experience that difference–having a woman in charge. That constancy of presence of Thatcher’s was part of the difference, the intensity with which she seized power was another. Read More
Award-winning novelist and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala died April 3 in New York from complications of pulmonary disease. She was...
American ex-pat, writer, and critic Donald Richie, author of the memoir The Japan Journals, 1947-2004, died on February 19th, 2013 in Toyko. He was 88. Read More
Julia Penelope was from another era, an era that is truly bygone. Unlike those other theorists, her work was so controversial, so revolutionary, so for lesbians only that what she said often created outrage, even among other lesbians and feminists. Read More
In an interview with the Chicago Tribune 20 years ago, Gerda Lerner said, "When I started working on women’s history about 30 years ago, the field did not exist. People didn’t think women had a history worth knowing." Read More
Poet, writer, and activist William Brandon Lacy Campos, author of the poetry collection It Ain’t Truth If It Doesn’t Hurt and contributor...
The French writer Tereska Torrès, who was best known for her controversial pulp novel Women’s Barracks, died on Thursday in her...