Oh, to be young and a radical lesbian in the late 1960s and early
'70s - here is a sharp and funny account of what it was like. The
author (Women's Studies/Pace Univ.; co-author, Out of the Closet,
not reviewed, etc.) was "a nice, Jewish girl from Brooklyn"
attending Barnard College in the 1960s. Growing up with a mentally
ill mother given to hallucinations, rages, and depression had
driven her from home but not out of the closet. Jolted by the
Columbia University student uprisings in 1968, she marched with
antiwar and civil rights protesters - and began exploring her
lesbian inclinations at Greenwich Village bars. She also began to
be drawn to the fledgling women's liberation movement, joining the
radical feminist Redstockings and a consciousness-raising group.
Also involved in the start-up of the Gay Liberation Front, she
worked by day for Collier's magazine and by night for a radical
publication called Rat. On the feminist front, she was part of
media women's sit-in at the Ladies Home Journal and organized an
"ogle-in" on Wall Street, where a group of women whistled and
commented on men's physical attributes as the bankers and brokers
emerged from the subway. She also helped organize the "Lavender
Menace" action (the term is Betty Friedan's) that set lesbian
interests on the agenda of the feminist movement. Exhausted, ill,
and frightened because her phone was tapped, she took off for
California, for a summer dominated by beaches, bars, sex, and
minimal gay politics. This marked the beginning of a withdrawal
from activism and the start of her trek to tenure. Jay's
action-packed stories are often accompanied by reflective analysis,
including why many feminists resisted, and continue to resist,
lesbians in the movement. Thoughtful, witty and informative, this
memoir captures the fervor and exuberance of those years when young
idealists stenciled T-shirts and marched to change the world - and
perhaps they did. (Kirkus Reviews)
Karla Jay's memoir of an age whose tumultuous social and political
movements fundamentally reshaped American culture takes readers
from her early days in the 1968 Columbia University student riots
to her post-college involvement in New York radical women's groups
and the New York Gay Liberation Front. In Southern California in
the early 70s, she continued in the battle for gay civil rights and
helped to organize the takeover of "The Ladies' Home Journal" and
"ogle-in" - where women staked out Wall Street and whistled at the
men.
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