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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 ...
This is a list of Black American authors and writers, ... Terri L. Jewell (1954–1995), poet, writer and Black lesbian activist; Alaya Dawn Johnson (born 1982)
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 ...
One of the foundational texts of black lesbian literature is Ann Allen Shockley’s novel, Loving Her. Published in 1974, Loving Her is widely considered to be one of the first, if not the first, published pieces of black lesbian literature. [70] Joanna Russ's 1975 novel The Female Man contains an alternative universe inhabited solely by lesbians.
This list of LGBTQ writers includes writers who are lesbian, ... writer, author, memoirist Orange is the New Black [294] Jack Kerouac: 1922–1969: American: novelist:
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.
The Lesbian in Literature by Gene Damon (Barbara Grier) – bibliography of any title with lesbian content through 1969; Chloe plus Olivia – An Anthology of Lesbian Literature from the Seventeenth Century to the Present, ed. Lillian Faderman, Penguin Books 1995
Cheryl L. Clarke (born Washington D.C., May 16, 1947) [1] is an American lesbian poet, essayist, educator, and Black feminist community activist. Her scholarship focuses on African-American women's literature, black lesbian feminism, and the Black Arts Movement in the United States.