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Recorded May 11, 2023 - by OLOC, Inc. (Old Lesbians Organizing for Change: An International Community of Elder Lesbians)
Karla Jay, long-time lesbian activist and author of Tales of the Lavender Menace, describes the contributions of Lesbians to the post-Stonewall movement, in particular, the development of alternative social venues like dances at the risk of their lives and the famous Lavender Menace action.

This action, initiated by Radicalesbians at the Second Congress to Unite Women, was a pivotal moment in women’s herstory. The Lavender Menace women demanded, in front of hundreds of women that the National Organization for Women (NOW) accept lesbianism as an integral part of the women’s liberation movement. Karla, an organizer of the event, will describe what happened and what followed.

At this point in her life, she is active in promoting intergenerational connections and will share how she has gotten involved in this work. She views this as an important arena for Lesbian involvement.

Karla Jay, PhD (1947) is Distinguished Professor Emerita of English, Women’s & Gender Studies, and Queer Studies at Pace University in New York City. She has written, edited, and translated ten award-winning books, the most recent of which is Tales of the Lavender Menace: a Memoir of Liberation. The first woman chair of the Gay Liberation Front and a co-founder of Radicalesbians (the Lavender Menace action), she has been a Grand Marshal of New York’s Pride March twice. She has written for many national and local publications. Her series of 24 books from NYU Press was called “The Cutting Edge.” The first academic series to focus on lesbians, it included the American publication of two diaries of Anne Lister, who had been erased and forgotten up until that moment.