The Audacity of a Kiss : Love, Art, and Liberation / Leslie Cohen.
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TextPublisher: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (265 p.) : 39 b-w imagesContent type: - 9781978825154
- Gay liberation movement -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century
- Lesbian bars -- New York (State) -- New York
- Lesbian businesswomen -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography
- Lesbians -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography
- Public sculpture, American -- New York (State) -- New York
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- audacity, kiss, love, art, liberation, LGBTQ, Gay Liberation, New York City, gender, sexuality, sex, biography, memoir, monument, national monument, gay right moment, Beth Suskin, Leslie Cohen, struggle, discrimination, Scarlet Knights, gay nightclub, Jane Fonda, Gloria Steinem, Betty Friedan, Pat Benatar, Ntozake Shange, Rita Mae Brown, Adrienne Rich, Patti Smith, Bella Abzug, George Segal, gay rights, Sahara, women's rights, 1970s, 1960s, feminism, feminist, social change, LGBT history
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Author’s Note -- Prologue -- Part I. Youth -- 1. Secrets and Dreams -- 2. Confetti on New Year’s Eve -- 3. Touching God -- 4. Awakening -- 5. Crawling out of Darkness -- 6. Acceptance -- Part II. Freedom Calling -- 7. Les Femmes -- 8. Water in the Desert -- 9. Jagged, Dirty Thoughts -- 10. An Antidote to Boredom -- 11. Permission -- 12. Virginia Slims -- 13. Lone Riders -- 14. Style Gets Used Up -- 15. Bashert: Fate, Meant to Be -- 16. After the Desert -- Postscript -- Gay Liberation Timeline -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- About the Author
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Shortlisted for Lesbian Memoir/Biography Lammy Award Rendered in bronze, covered in white lacquer, two women sit together on a park bench in Greenwich Village. One of the women touches the thigh of her partner as they gaze into each other’s eyes. The two women are part of George Segal’s iconic sculpture “Gay Liberation,” but these powerful symbols were modeled on real people: Leslie Cohen and her partner (now wife) Beth Suskin. In this evocative memoir, Cohen tells the story of a love that has lasted for over fifty years. Transporting the reader to the pivotal time when brave gay women and men carved out spaces where they could live and love freely, she recounts both her personal struggles and the accomplishments she achieved as part of New York’s gay and feminist communities. Foremost among these was her 1976 cofounding of the groundbreaking women’s nightclub Sahara, which played host to such luminaries as Betty Friedan, Gloria Steinem, Pat Benatar, Ntozake Shange, Rita Mae Brown, Adrienne Rich, Patti Smith, Bella Abzug, and Jane Fonda. The Audacity of a Kiss is a moving and inspiring tale of how love, art, and solidarity can overcome oppression.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
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