References
- Karla Jay, Tales of a Lavender Menace (New York: Basic Books, 1999), 82; Martin Duberman,Stonewall (New York: Plume Books, 1993), 247; Toby Marotta, The Politics of Homosexuality (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1981), 238-9.
- Ellen Shumsky, “The Radicalesbian Story: An Evolution of Consciousness,” in Smash the Church, Smash the State, ed. Tommi Avicolli Mecca (San Francisco: City Lights Books, 2009), 190. See also: Suzanne Bevier, “GLF Women Hold First All-Women’s Dance,” Gay Power, Vol. 1, No. 15 (n.d.): 10.
- Bob Kohler, “Gay Liberation Front-New York,” Gay Power, Vol. 1, No. 15, (n.d.): 10.
- Jay, Lavender Menace, 126.
- ”pigmafiapigmafiapigmafia,” Rat, April 17, 1970, unnumbered page. Reprinted in Marotta, Politics, 240.
- Marotta, Politics, 240.
- Ibid., 246; Shumsky, "The Radicalesbian Story," 192.
- Jay, Lavender Menace, 137.
- Ibid., 138.
- Ibid., 139.
- Ibid., 140.
- Radicalesbians, "The Woman-Identified Woman," in Dear Sisters: Dispatches from the Women's Liberation Movement, eds. Rosalyn Baxandall and Linda Gordon (New York: Basic Books, 2000), 107-8; Marotta, Politics, 241-44.
- Donn Teal, The Gay Militants (New York: Stein and Day Publishers, 1971), 179.
- Pat Maxwell, “Lavender Menaces Confront The Congress to United Women,” Gay Power, No. 17, (n.d.). Reprinted in Teal, Gay Militants, 180.
- Ibid.
- Ibid.
- Shumsky, “The Radicalesbian Story,” 192.
- Ibid.
- Ibid., 193.
- ”Minutes,” August 26, 1970, Radicalesbians Organizational File, Lesbian Herstory Archives, Brooklyn, NY.
- Ellen Shumsky, personal interview, February 2, 2010; “Meeting Minutes – Radical Lesbians,” September 2, 1970, Radicalesbians Organizational File, Lesbian Herstory Archives.
- Marotta, Politics, 248-54.
- Ellen Shumsky wrote that "[t]here was a new realization that Radicalesbians was not a thing but a process, a flow, a way of looking at life from our own centers and trying to live in accordance with that self-knowledge." Shumsky, "The Radicalesbian Story," 195.