On September 23, 1970, a group of antiwar activists staged a
robbery at a bank in Massachusetts, during which a police officer
was killed. While the three men who participated in the robbery
were soon apprehended, two women escaped and became fugitives on
the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list, eventually landing in a lesbian
collective in Lexington, Kentucky, during the summer of 1974. In
pursuit, the FBI launched a massive dragnet. Five lesbian women and
one gay man ended up in jail for refusing to cooperate with federal
officials, whom they saw as invading their lives and community.
Dubbed the Lexington Six, the group's resistance attracted national
attention, inspiring a nationwide movement in other minority
communities. Like the iconic Stonewall demonstrations, this
gripping story of spirited defiance has special resonance in
today's America. Drawing on transcripts of the judicial hearings,
contemporaneous newspaper accounts, hundreds of pages of FBI files
released to the author under the Freedom of Information Act, and
interviews with many of the participants, Josephine Donovan
reconstructs this fascinating, untold story. The Lexington Six is a
vital addition to LGBTQ, feminist, and radical American history.
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