Word: lesbian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DIFFICULTIES. For all its obvious gains and growth, the movement has its troubles. In part the problems are caused by the extreme positions that are taken by only a few feminists but which are often used against the movement as a whole. The issue of lesbianism, for example, has hurt the movement. Says one N.O.W. official: "I have heard a woman called Communist, radical, bitchy, everything-and she can take it. But if anyone so much as breathes the word lesbian at her, she goes to pieces." During the 1970 Women's Strike for Equality that marked the 50th...
...lawyer, get my husband to understand what I really feel, get courage? The hostility I get from men, saying that all I need is a good f- or a good beating-always some kind of conquest-or I must be a lesbian. And the lascivious part; the personally devastating things that people will just walk up to you and say. Even male politicians don't get the kind of viciousness that women get as routine. It is like being gang-banged in public. But it has been worth it because of something great out there, not just the pain...
...women's center will also provide a lesbian lounge, a high-school equivalency course, emotional counseling by women from Radical Therapists, and paramedical training on a administering pregnancy, VD, and pap smear tests...
Woman interested in a particular topic will conduct informal classes stressing collective planning and evaluation. Some courses will be on topics directly related to women's liberation--women's history, lesbian liberation, women and their bodies--and others will be on topics of general interest such as economics, nutrition, art, and creative writing...
...demand is new courses in "womanities." On dozens of campuses, "women's studies" programs now include courses on literature written by women, economic studies of the woman's role in the marketplace and seminars on the psychology of women. A few of the pressure groups are openly lesbian in orientation. But, says Bonnie Strote, a member of several groups at the University of Washington, "It's getting difficult to tell who's gay and who's straight. A community is growing up of women who are relating so well together that they love each other...