![]() ![]() Here's a list in no particular order why I dislike this novel:ġ. However, I definitely can't award it anything higher than a two because it was awful in many ways. I really debated whether to give this one or two stars because my intense negative reaction to the book doesn't necessarily mean it wasn't written decently. If you are lesbian, are in favor of gay rights but aren't sure if you are comfortable about actual lesbians-a lot of people have told me this over the years: 'it's a private matter, but I don't want to hear about it'- or if you are not easily offended and just want to laugh, and laugh, and laugh, get this book. Things are different now, and more people are probably open to reading a book like this, even when there are no humming-wire family issues involved. ![]() Our mother turned on the evening news to see a close-up of a very young version of me, clad in a halter top and carrying a sign, chanting "Three, five, seven, nine, lesbians are MIGHTY FINE!" (She was a pediatric nurse, and terrified lest she lose her position she is retired now). Later that year,while Anita Bryant was still trying to "save our children" by getting gays and lesbians banned from any job involving children on the no-facts-involved notion that they would molest them, I went to my first Pride march in my sister's place. Hilariously written, human, sexual, occasionally profane: it's hard to be a homophobe when you're laughing that hard. Her "roommate" of many years was not just a roommate any more. We were very close, and she was much older. My sister had recently come out to me, and my head was spinning. I was a young woman of 21, and it was during a time when it was still considered shocking, by most of mainstream straight America,to be gay. I read this book the year it was published. Because nobody had ever said these things and used their real name, I suddenly became the only lesbian in America." There may be a few people on the extreme if it's a bell curve who really truly are gay or really truly are straight. In the early 1970s, she became a founding member of The Furies Collective, a lesbian feminist newspaper collective in Washington, DC, which held that heterosexuality was the root of all oppression.īrown told Time magazine in 2008, "I don't believe in straight or gay. She claims she played a leading role in the "Lavender Menace" zap of the Second Congress to Unite Women on May 1, 1970, which protested Friedan's remarks and the exclusion of lesbians from the women's movement. Later in the 1960s, she participated in the anti-war movement, the feminist movement and the Gay Liberation movement.īrown took an administrative position with the fledgling National Organization for Women, but resigned in January 1970 over Betty Friedan's anti-gay remarks and NOW's attempts to distance itself from lesbian organizations. In 1982, a screenplay Brown wrote while living in Los Angeles, Sleepless Nights, was retitled The Slumber Party Massacre and given a limited release theatrically.ĭuring Brown's spring 1964 semester at the University of Florida at Gainesville, she became active in the American Civil Rights Movement. In 1977, she bought a farm in Charlottesville, Virginia where she still lives. Starting in 1973, Brown lived in the Hollywood Hills in Los Angeles. in literature from Union Institute & University in 1976 and holds a doctorate in political science from the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C. Later, she received another degree in cinematography from the New York School of Visual Arts. She subsequently enrolled at Broward Community College with the hope of transferring eventually to a more tolerant four-year institution.īetween fall 19, she lived in New York City, sometimes homeless, while attending New York University where she received a degree in Classics and English. In the spring of 1964, the administrators of the racially segregated university expelled her for participating in the civil rights movement. Starting in the fall of 1962, Brown attended the University of Florida at Gainesville on a scholarship. She was raised by her biological mother's female cousin and the cousin's husband in York, Pennsylvania and later in Ft. She is also an Emmy-nominated screenwriter.īrown was born illegitimate in Hanover, Pennsylvania. Rita Mae Brown is a prolific American writer, most known for her mysteries and other novels ( Rubyfruit Jungle). ![]()
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