References

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Bob Kohler, “Gay Liberation Front-New York,” Gay Power, Vol. 1, No. 15, (n.d.): 10.
  4. Jay, Lavender Menace, 126.
  5. ”pigmafiapigmafiapigmafia,” Rat, April 17, 1970, unnumbered page. Reprinted in Marotta, Politics, 240.
  6. Marotta, Politics, 240.
  7. Ibid., 246; Shumsky, "The Radicalesbian Story," 192.
  8. Jay, Lavender Menace, 137.
  9. Ibid., 138.
  10. Ibid., 139.
  11. Ibid., 140.
  12. 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.
  13. Donn Teal, The Gay Militants (New York: Stein and Day Publishers, 1971), 179.
  14. Pat Maxwell, “Lavender Menaces Confront The Congress to United Women,” Gay Power, No. 17, (n.d.). Reprinted in Teal, Gay Militants, 180.
  15. Ibid.
  16. Ibid.
  17. Shumsky, “The Radicalesbian Story,” 192.
  18. Ibid.
  19. Ibid., 193.
  20. ”Minutes,” August 26, 1970, Radicalesbians Organizational File, Lesbian Herstory Archives, Brooklyn, NY.
  21. Ellen Shumsky, personal interview, February 2, 2010; “Meeting Minutes – Radical Lesbians,” September 2, 1970, Radicalesbians Organizational File, Lesbian Herstory Archives.
  22. Marotta, Politics, 248-54.
  23. 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.