Word: samantha
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...When Samantha, a consultant to a California nonprofit corporation, is invited to company events in which spouses are welcome, she brings her housemate, Jill, a college professor. The two women are rarely explicit about their relationship. They just assume that co-workers will infer, correctly, that they are lovers. "I never came out and told people at work I was a lesbian," Samantha says. "You don't come out and tell people you're straight. I felt it was up to them to figure...
...standards of the homosexual world, Samantha and Jill are more than usually open, or "out." Their bond is no secret to their families or neighbors -- in fact, they discovered after moving into a suburban-style home that four other lesbian couples live on the same block. Their friends know too: one year the couple sent out a tongue-in-cheek Christmas card depicting them entwined in a romantic cliffside embrace. Yet they are still wary enough, with Jill's tenure on the line, that they refused to have their real names included in this article...
This relative invisibility, and their middle-class life-style, make Samantha and Jill typical of the estimated 6 million to 13 million lesbians in the U.S. If the higher number is right, about as many women are lesbian as are black and many more than are Hispanic. While a small, strident minority reject men altogether and advocate feminist separatism, most lesbians are fully integrated into mainstream American life. They can be found in locales ranging from Chicago and San Francisco to the rural enclaves of Northampton, Mass., and Brattleboro, Vt. In Finding the Lesbians, author Janelle Lavelle claims...
PHOTOGRAPHY: Marie Tobias, Samantha Hoyt...
...HARVARD) d. Shannon Crockett (Dartmouth), 6-1, 6-3; 2. Doris Lee (D) d. Jamie Henikoff (H), 6-4, 6-7, 6-2; 3. Melissa McNabb (H) d. Alexis Boss, 6-2, 3-6, 6-2; 4. Kathy Birkeland (D) d. Jenn Minkus (H), 6-2, 6-3; 5. Samantha Ettus (H) d. Audrey Dibono (D), 2-6, 6-3, 6-2; 6. Melinda Wang (H) d. Jennifer Dirksen...