![]() Through more than 150 interviews and documents from 20 archives, it explores “how we got here.” In vivid prose, Faderman traces court cases and brave individuals, heart-breaking reversals and formidable opponents. The book traces a pinched childhood, a young adulthood as model and habitué of the Los Angeles lesbian underground and long decades as a writer and professor, teaching at San Francisco State University, Fresno.įaderman’s 10th book, The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle chronicles a larger, unfinished story. The writer tells this story in Naked in the Promised Land, her 2003 memoir. “She was the driving force behind everything I became,” Faderman told a reporter for the San Francisco J-Weekly, contrasting her path to a doctorate in English at the University of California while her mother was practically illiterate. ![]() ![]() Instead, Mary and her sister, Rae, took the child to Los Angeles and scraped together a new life. Lillian Faderman, a leading scholar of LGBT history, writes that she exists because her unmarried mother Mary, a Jewish garment worker in lower Manhattan, had the gumption to refuse a third abortion. ![]()
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