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Alma Routsong, Author of "Patience and Sarah" (1967): A 1975 Interview by Jonathan Ned Katz

For Women's History Month in 2016, OutHistory republished an interview by Jonathan Ned Katz with Alma Routsong. On January 20, 1975, the author of Patience and Sarah spoke to Katz about discovering her lesbianism and her development as a novelist. The interview was originally published in Katz's Gay American History (1976).

Alma Routsong, Daughters of Bilitis, homophile movement, Isabel Miller, Jonathan Ned Katz, Kay Lahusen, lesbian, literature, Michigan, New York, oral history, Poughkeepsie

Angela Calomiris (1916-1995): A Spy in the Lesbian Herstory Archives, by Lisa E. Davis

An introduction to and overview of the story of Angela Calomiris, a working-class lesbian who was a key informant for the FBI in the 1940s against the Communist Party.

Angela Calomiris, Communist Party, court cases, FBI, Harry Hay, law, lesbian, Lesbian Herstory Archives, New York City, oral history, Provincetown

Carroll Smith-Rosenberg and "The Female World of Love and Ritual," A 2021 Interview by Matthew Hauptman

An interview with the author of a groundbreaking 1975 essay on lesbian history.

Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, colleges and universities, Columbia University, Connecticut College, feminism, lesbian, New York, New York City, oral history, University of Michigan, University of Pennsylvania

Browse Exhibits (3 total)

Alma Routsong, Author of "Patience and Sarah" (1967): A 1975 Interview by Jonathan Ned Katz

Angela Calomiris (1916-1995): A Spy in the Lesbian Herstory Archives, by Lisa E. Davis

Carroll Smith-Rosenberg and "The Female World of Love and Ritual," A 2021 Interview by Matthew Hauptman