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CHRONOLOGY • xxiii the Heart, a landmark lesbian romance in which the characters have an uncomplicated happy ending. 1966 Maureen Duffy first publishes the novel Microcosm, which fictionalizes London lesbian subculture. 1969 Gay Women’s Liberation Group founded in California. Isabel Miller publishes A Place for Us (later Patience and Sarah). Monique Wittig publishes Les Guérillières, an epic about a war between amazon and patriarchal warriors. 1968 Bisexual writer Kate Millet publishes the groundbreaking literary study Sexual Politics, which gives a feminist reading of canonical male authors. 1970 A Woman’s Place, the first Women’s Book Store in the United States, is founded in Oakland, California. Radicalesbians publish “The Woman-Identified-Woman Manifesto.” Feminist lesbian Shulamith Firestone publishes the radical feminist classic The Dialectic of Sex. The Gay Liberation Front begins organizing in New York and London. 1971 Isabel Miller wins the first American Library Association Award for Gay and Lesbian Literature for Patience and Sarah (first published in 1969). The Lesbian Tide, possibly the first U.S. magazine to use the word lesbian in its title, begins private publication. Judy Grahn first publishes Edward the Dyke and Other Poems. 1973 The Boston Women’s Health Book Collective begins publishing the self-help book Our Bodies, Ourselves, which revolutionizes American women’s relationship to health care. Barbara Grier and Donna MacBride found Naiad Press, which gradually becomes the largest and most successful lesbian press in the world. 1974 “Combahee River Collective Statement” first published. The statement articulates a lesbian-centered, antiracist black feminism. Valerie Taylor and others organize the Lesbian Writer’s Conference in Chicago. 1975 Joanna Russ’ novel The Female Man popularizes lesbian science fiction. 1981 Philosopher and activist Angela Y. Davis publishes Women, Race and Class. Gloria Anzaldúa and Cherrie Moraga publish the edited collection This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color.
xxiv • CHRONOLOGY 1984 Barbara Wilson first publishes Murder in the Collective, which inaugurates the lesbian crime fiction genre. 1987 Barbara Smith, Patricia Bell Scott and Gloria T. Hull publish the influential black feminist anthology All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave. Gloria Anzaldúa publishes Borderlands/La Frontera, positing a new model of identity based on blending and liminality. 1988 The American organization Lambda Literary Foundation institutes awards for Lesbian and Gay Writing. Helena Whitbread edits and publishes the sexually explicit diaries of the early 19th-century English lesbian landowner Ann Lister, thus demonstrating that a conscious lesbian identity is older than had been previously assumed. 1989 Lesléa Newman publishes the children’s book Heather Has Two Mommies, about a child who has two lesbian parents. 1990 Sakhi, India’s first openly lesbian collective, makes a public statement in the Bombay-based Gay magazine Bombay Dost. Sakhi founds the Jami Project lesbian archives in Delhi. Publication of Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity marks a new set of questions about womanhood, feminism, gender and sexuality and heralds the height of the Lesbian Studies movement in academia. 1992 Novelist Sarah Schulman and others form the Lesbian Avengers and publish “The Dyke Manifesto.” Dorothy Allison publishes Bastard Out of Carolina. Death of the poet and essayist Audre Lorde. 1993 Leslie Feinberg first publishes the influential novel Stone Butch Blues, articulating a transgender lesbian identity. 1994 Anchee Min first publishes Red Azalea: Life and Love in China. 1998 Pat Califia first publishes Macho Sluts, which vastly influences lesbian pornography. The English novelist Sarah Waters achieves largescale publishing success for her first novel Tipping the Velvet. Lesbian fiction becomes a globally marketable commodity. 2003 Death of the writer and theorist Monique Wittig. 2004 May: Death of the writer and theorist Gloria Anzaldúa.
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