Jeanne Cordova

When We Were Outlaws by Jeanne Cordova (Spinspters Ink)

Dr. Chris Freeman riffs off the style of hard-hitting PBS interview host Charlie Rose, and tosses the tough questions to Jeanne Cordova, author of When We Were Outlaws: a memoir of Love and Revolution Delve back in time to the early 1970s birth of activism in the lesbian & gay movement.   Get the nuts and bolts on... Lesbian separatism, Advocacy journalist (ala the infamous L.A. Free Press), Lesbians in the Symbionese Liberation Army, Butch daughters and their seriously confused fathers, The politics of non-monogamy (polyamory) as a multi-generational lifestyle & more... Special guest: Art Kunkin, Founder of the Los Angeles Free Press Dr. Chris Freeman teaches Gender Studies at USC, including, "Queer L.A." Freeman is the co-editor of the Lambda Award-winning THE ISHERWOOD CENTURY and the Lambda finalist LOVE, WEST HOLLYWOOD. Jeanne Cordova, pioneer dyke activist, queer organizer, lesbian journalist/publisher.  Author of SEXISM IT'S A NASTY AFFAIR, KICKING THE HABIT, and a contributor to LESBIAN NUNS BREAKING THE SILENCE & THE PERSISTENT DESIRE: A FEMME BUTCH READER THIS EVENT WAS RECORDED LIVE AT SKYLIGHT BOOKS FEBRUARY 4, 2012.