The Audacity of a Kiss
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-2511-6 (ISBN)
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.
LESLIE COHEN has been a museum curator, a nightclub owner and promoter, a limousine driver, and a lawyer, as well as a writer whose work has appeared in such publications as Curve and The New York Times Style Magazine. Now retired, she and her wife Beth live in Miami, Florida with their cat, Birdie.
List of 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
Part III: A Posse of Outsiders
13. Lone Riders
14. Style Gets Used Up
15. Bashert: Fate, Meant to Be
16. After the Desert
Postscript
Gay Liberation Timeline
Acknowledgments
Notes
| Erscheinungsdatum | 01.09.2021 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 39 b-w images |
| Verlagsort | New Brunswick NJ |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 4 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-9788-2511-0 / 1978825110 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-9788-2511-6 / 9781978825116 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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