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Black lesbian literature emerged from the Black Feminist movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Dissatisfied with the inability of both the feminist movement of the 1960s and the Civil Rights Movement to address the specific forms of oppression experienced by black women, [1] these writers produced critical essays and fictional works which gave voice to their experiences, using Black ...
Writer and author Audre Lorde [35] Author and feminist Alice Walker [36] Author and poet Tracy Chapman [37] Singer RuPaul [38] Actor, drag queen, and television personality Tarell Alvin McCraney [39] Playwright and actor James Baldwin [40] Author Janet Mock [41] Writer, TV host, and transgender rights activist Isis King [42] Model and designer ...
Kylie Kendall, the lesbian manager of a pub in tiny Wollegudgerie, Australia who inherits 51% of her father's private detective agency in Los Angeles, California, in mysteries by Claire McNab; Lane Thompson, a charming lesbian patient at the Wonderdrug Psychiatric Center in The Woman Who Made Me Feel Strange (Those Strange Women #1) by Anna Ferrara
This category lists notable writers who identify, or who have been identified, as lesbians. Many of them have written about the nature of same-sex love and desire using fictional, autobiographical, or journalistic forms.
Mouths of Rain is a compilation of writings spanning 1909 to 2019 from Black lesbian women and others who have had intimate relationships with other Black women. [2] [3] It was intended as a companion to the 1995 anthology Words of Fire by Beverly Guy-Sheftall, and contains writings by: Alice Walker, Cheryl Clarke, Audre Lorde, Pauli Murray, Barbara Smith, and Bettina Love.
Simone Bell becomes the first African-American lesbian to serve in a U.S. state legislature (Georgia House of Representatives). [36] Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, which adds gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and disability to existing hate crime laws, is signed into law by President Barack Obama.
LGBT Detroit is a Michigan nonprofit organization serving the African American lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender population of Detroit, and nearby communities Detroit, MI: Lighthouse Foundation: 2019–present The Foundation advocates for the Black LGBTQ community in Chicago.
Tomi Adeyemi (born 1993), author and creative writing coach; Ai, aka Ai Ogawa, birth name Florence Anthony (1947–2010), poet, NBA for poetry, 1999; Rochelle Alers (born 1943), author and artist; Elizabeth Alexander (born 1962), poet, essayist and playwright; Kwame Alexander (born 1968), writer of poetry and children's fiction