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Ruth Charlotte Ellis (July 23, 1899 – October 5, 2000) was an African-American woman known for being an LGBT rights activist and the oldest surviving open lesbian at the age of 101.
Connexxus Women's Center/Centro de Mujeres was a non-profit community organization established in January 1985 in West Hollywood, California. The organization was co-founded by Adel Martinez and Lauren Jardine [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] in 1984 as a women-run center in Los Angeles, and provided services that catered to women, particularly lesbians and a ...
[23] [24] She was the first woman sentenced to death in a period of several decades, and at one period, she was the only person in the unit. [25] Initially a set of nine cells in the 504 building, a two-story building for difficult to manage and maximum security prisoners, served as the women's death row.
Women's Media Center (WMC) is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit women's organization in the United States founded in 2005 by writers and activists Jane Fonda, Robin Morgan, and Gloria Steinem. [1] Led by President Julie Burton, [ 2 ] WMC's work includes advocacy campaigns, giving out awards, media and leadership training, and the creation of ...
Though the facility housed the death row for Virginia's female inmates prior to its abolition in 2021, executions by lethal injection were conducted at Greensville Correctional Center near Jarratt, Virginia, located to the south of Richmond. [4] Teresa Lewis, the only woman held in Fluvanna's death row, [11] was executed on September 23, 2010. [12]
A women's facility at Carson City, Warm Springs Correctional Center, was converted to house male inmates. The 145,000-square-foot (13,500 m 2) Southern Nevada Women's Correctional Center was built to house around 500 inmates. The dedication was held on Saturday, September 13, 1997, with inmates being moved in the following week.
Gloria Cecilia Ramirez (January 11, 1963 – February 19, 1994) [1] was an American woman who was dubbed the Toxic Lady or the Toxic Woman by the media when several hospital workers became ill after airborne exposure to her body and blood.
Amazon Acres, You Beauty: Stories of Women's Lands, Australia (2017) is a collection of women's stories curated by Sand Hall about the Australian womyn's land Amazon Acres. [ 55 ] Wild Mares: My Lesbian Back-to-the-Land Life (2018) by Dianna Hunter documents the author's experiences on a womyn's land in Wisconsin.