American Women — Lesbians

  • Gayjavu / produced by Helene Rosenbluth and Greg Gordon.

    The past ten years in gay history are reviewed through popular music and news: consenting adults laws begin to be passed, gay themes in cinema, “Emily,” “Sappho was a right-on woman,” Olivia Records, Proposition 6 in California, “Rubyfruit jungle,” gay rights bills, “Lola,” “Secret lover,” homosexuality declared no longer a mental illness, Dan White verdict…

  • Who we are / by Kate Millett ; produced by Helene Rosenbluth.

    Kate Millett, lesbian-feminist, sculptor and author of Sexual Politics, gives a brief history of the gay movement during this address at the Gay Academic Union national conference in November 1978. Millett was the keynote speaker at the conference. In her talk she describes gays and lesbians of the present moment as being “second-wave,” and elaborates…

  • Gay poetry / read by Alma Routsong and Ronald Gold.

    Alma Routsong, author of “Patience and Sarah” under the pen name Isabel Miller, and host Ronald Gold read poems by gay and lesbian poets. Poems read: Gertrude Stein – Love song of Alice B.; Walt Whitman – Calamus 24 and 25; Fran Winant – Penny; Alta – The art of enforced deprivation; Ian Young –…

  • The meaning (if any) of Intro 554 (Episode 12)

    A “special” Gay Alternatives discussion of New York City’s gay civil-rights bill, and its relevance (if any) to the lives of gays. Guests are Kitty Cotter, media coordinator for Lesbian Feminist Liberation; Frances Doughty, board chairperson of the National Gay Task Force; and Arnie Kantrowitz, writer and former vice president of Gay Activists Alliance. Host…

  • Women and men together / produced by Ronald Gold.

    A discussion about the relationship between women and men in the gay movement, how the gay movement has opened up a new set of relations of women and men working together compared to other movements, and what the opportunity to work closely with the opposite sex inside the movement has meant for the panelists. The…

  • The Relationship of the Lesbian Feminist Movement and the Gay Movement : a National Gay Task Force Panel / produced by Ronald Gold.

    A tape of the National Gay Task Force (NGTF)’s December 1975 panel on the relationship between the lesbian feminist movement and the gay movement. The panel was held at NYU Medical Center’s Schwartz Auditorium and was chaired by Jean O’Leary, legislative director of the NGTF . The panelists are Betty Powell, instructor of foreign language…

  • Lesbian separation / hosted and produced by Ron Gold.

    Three women who believe that lesbians can find their own identities by relating exclusively with other women discuss this view. The panelists discuss where on the spectrum of “lesbian separation” they currently find themselves and whether men and women can relate to each other in a patriarchal society. The guests are Jan Crawford, convener of…

  • Women in the Metropolitan Community Church / moderated by Ronald Gold.

    Assistant Pastor Ann Montague of the Manhattan Metropolitan Community Church and three other women church members – Judy Miller, Charlene Taylor and Gail Zudeikis[sp?] — discuss the Church, which professes a special ministry to the gay and lesbian community. Montague discusses the Church’s attempts to build a community in which “people take each other seriously”…

  • Lesbian sisters: August 6, 1974

    This episode of the series Lesbian sisters includes 1.–Conversation between women artists: writer Alice Bloch, painter Joy Franklin, filmmaker Jan Oxenberg, poet [L.J.]? Tessier, weaver and sculptor Jackie Weller. 2.–Evan Paxton reads a short story. Features songs by Judy Collins, Cris Williamson, Meg Christian and Laura Nyro. Produced by Evan Paxton. Women artists segment engineered…