Lesbian authors

  • Noretta Koertge: Who was that masked woman?

    Viv Sutherland interviews Noretta Koertge, author of “Who Was that Masked Woman?” recently published by St. Martin’s Press (1981). Koertge, who is also a professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at Indiana University, talks about her process writing and publishing her novel, how her lesbianism has impacted her life and work,…

  • Rita Mae Brown at the Woman’s Building

    Writer and activist Rita Mae Brown (1944 – ) delivers a speech at the Woman’s Building in Los Angeles on July 4, 1976. Brown talks about the way both men and women suffer under the patriarchy through pornographic violence and nostalgia in the mass media. She tells the audience that “you’ve got to become an…