This is dedicate to the women`s who help us in the past..They make differenc in the "man" world...when most of women rise and though how they purpose in life is to get married,have children,taking care of house,and be there to make life easy to her husband. This women make us see the world through they eye`s....they did`t wanna stay in shadow`s of a man`s..they give us choise.....
Sappho (630 and 612-570.B.C.)
Ancient Greek lyric poet,grew up on island Lesbos,she start her own school for girl,in which they learned the art of writing lyric poetry.
(http://www.velvet-club.com/gallery/lesbian_history_icons_sappho.php)
(link to Sappho poems:http://www.poetry-archive.com/s/sappho.html)
Natalie Clifford Barney (31.10.1876.-02.02.1972.)
Natalie was an American author and poet,who lived as an expatriate in Paris.She had Salon held at her home more then 60 years where she brought together writers and artis from around the world,including many leading figures in Franch literature along with American and British modernist of the lost generation.She was openly lesbian and publish love poem to a women under her own name.She did`t like monogamy,and her life and love affairs served as inspiration for many novels.
(source from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalie_Clifford_Barney)
Radclyffe Hall (12.09.1880.-07.10.1943)
She was an English poet and author best known for the lesbian classic "The well of loneliness",she base one character on Natalie Clifford Barney.
Radclyffe was listed at number sixteen in the "top 500 lesbians and gay heroes" in the Pink Paper.
(source:Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radclyffe_Hall)
Mabel Hampton (02.02.1902.-26.10.1989.)
She was an American lesbian activist,a dancer during the Harlem Renaissance and philanthropist.She was black lasbian pioneer who inspired many during her 87 year of living on this planet.(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mabel_Hampton)
Jane Addams (06.09.1860.-21.05.1935.)
Jane Addams was a founder of the U.S Settlement House movement,and one of the first American women to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize..(source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Addams)
Gladys Bentely (1907-1960)
She was popular Blues singer during The Harlem Renaissance.She lived in Harlem,where in 1920.was an open and accepting place for gay and lesbians.Gladys dressed in her trademark tuxedo and top hat.She had reputation as a butch lesbian.Her marriage to a white women was widely publicized.
(http://lesbianlife.about.com/od/lesbiansinhistory/p/GladysBentley.htm)
(http://www.dailymotion.com/relevance/search/bentley/video/x1jcqi_gladys-bentley-on-you-bet-your-life_music)
Elizabeth Bishop (1911.-1979.)
She was American peot and writer.She was the Poet Laureate of the United States from 1949-1950, and a Pulitzer Prize winner in 1956. She was involved in romantic relationship with womens,but she did not write about her life of her sexual orientation in her poetry and did not see herself as a "lesbian poet" or as a "female poet".She only wanted to be judged based on the quality of her writing and not her gender or sexual preference.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Bishop)
(link to poems:
http://www.poemhunter.com/elizabeth-bishop/)
Anne Lister (1791-1840)
http://rictornorton.co.uk/lister.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzfvBOLQyBs
Virginia Woolf (25.01.1882.-28.03.1941.)
Most of us know`s who was Virginia and what she mean for English and world literature and about her devotion and love for Vita Sackville-West.
"(for more information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Woolf)
Ma Rainey (26.04.1886.-22.12.1939.)
Gertrude Mellisa Nix Pridgett Rainey,she was called as "The Mother of the blues". She help to develop and popularize blues,and had much influence on younger blues singers such as Bessie Smith.Even though she was married,she never hide her love for women.In 1928. she recorded "Prove it on Me Blues" which makes no secret of her relationship with women.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma_Rainey)
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJm3YGAwPUM)
Audre Lorde (18.02.1934.-17.11.1992)
Caribbean- American writer,poet,activist,born in NY.She was a Black Feminist Lesbian poet,who publish 20 books of poetry and prose.She was an inspiration to many lesbians and is widely quited.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audre_Lorde)
Phillis Ann Lyon (10.11.1924.)
Del Martin (05.05.1921.)
Phillis and Del are lesbian feminist and activist.
Del was married for four years and has daughter Kendra.Phillis and Del meet in 1950.in Seattle,and in 1952 become lovers and been together ever since. In 1953. they move in San Francisco where with several other womens formed the first national lesbian organization in US "Daughters of Bilits" in 1955. "Bilits" come from poem about the lesbian lover of Sappho.On 12.02.2004. Phillis and Del become first same-sex couple to be legally marry in USA in ceremony in San Francisco.
(http://lesbianlife.about.com/od/lesbiansinhistory/Famous_Lesbians_and_Bisexual_Women_in_History.htm)
Fannie Flagg (1944.- )
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fannie_Flagg
Rita Mae Brown (1944.- )
Q: ""I don't believe in straight or gay. I really don't. I think we're all degrees of bisexual."
She was in relationship with Martina Navratilova,Fannie Flagg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rita_Mae_Brown
