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Award-winning investigative journo ▪️ 2022 Society of Professional Journalists Award/Newspaper Feature Reporting ▪️2023 NLGJA/Curve Award ▪️ Socialist ▪️Widow

Oct 8, 2017, 10 tweets

October 8 is #InternationalLesbianDay
Have a great gay day!
(This lesbian couple is from 1907.)

October 8 is #InternationalLesbianDay
In South Africa, lesbians are at high risk from #correctiverape & murder, just for being gay.

October 8 is #InternationalLesbianDay
19th c #lesbians lived together in what were called #BostonMarriages. Some have tried to de-gay them.

Oct 8 is #InternationalLesbianDay
#BarbaraJordan was the 1st black member of Congress since Reconstruction, a civil rights icon & #lesbian.

Oct 8 is #InternationalLesbianDay
#AnaBrnabi, 42, is the new Prime Minister of #Serbia.
She is an out lesbian.

Oct 8 is #InternationalLesbianDay
#JohannaSigurdardottir was the world's 1st openly #lesbian elected head of state & PM of #Iceland til2013.

Oct 8 is #InternationalLesbianDay
#JaneAddams founded modern social work, cofounded the #ACLU, won the Nobel Peace Prize & was a lesbian.

Oct 8 is #InternationalLesbianDay
#GloriaAnzaldua was a Chicana scholar, writer, sociologist, activist, lesbian & last week, Google doodle.

Oct 8 is #InternationalLesbianDay
#DrAliceHamilton was a physician, scientist, social reformer & lesbian. Her work created OSHA.

Oct 8 is #InternationalLesbianDay
#AdrienneRich was an award-winning American poet, essayist, feminist theorist, leftist activist & lesbian.

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