Elsa Gidlow

thumb|Elsa Gidlow in 1981 Elsa Gidlow (29 December 1898 – 8 June 1986) was an English-born, Canadian-American poet, freelance journalist, and philosopher. She is best known for writing On A Grey Thread (1923), possibly the first volume of openly lesbian love poetry published in North America, and for helping to establish Druid Heights, a bohemian community in Marin County, California. Quotes If there was a problem connected with my being a lesbian, even after I became aware of it, it was the loneliness, the fact that I didn't know anybody else like me. Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives (1977), as cited in Palmer, Chris, October 6, 1978, "'Word is Out' an important film on gays", Bangor Daily News. We consider the artist a special sort of person. It is more likely that each of us is a special sort of artist. As cited in West, Celeste, 1986, "In Memoriam: Elsa Gidlow", Feminist Studies, 12 (3), 614. We are returned to mystery and the power of cooperating with life—rather than, as so often now, working against it. On organic farming, in Belasco, Warren James, 2007, "The Organic Paradigm", Appetite for Change: How the Counterculture Took on the Food Industry, Cornell University Press, ISBN 0801473292, p. 69. Quotes about Elsa Gidlow the memoirs of poet Elsa Gidlow and civil rights and peace activist Barbara Deming evidenced the struggle with which so many have engaged for a lesbian identity rooted in self-esteem and dignity. In publicly affirming who they were, each encouraged the sense of continuity and tradition central to the formation of lesbian archives. Bettina Aptheker Tapestries of Life: Women's Work, Women's Consciousness, and the Meaning of Daily Experience (1989) Superficially, she suggested that she was a very respectable and demure maiden lady, but someone had put raven's blood in her mother's milk. Watts, Alan, 1972, In My Own Way, as cited in her obituary, June 10, 1986, San Francisco Chronicle. External links Author:Elsa Gidlow Category:1898 births Category:1986 deaths Category:20th-century poets from the United States Category:Poets from England Category:Poets from Canada Category:Women authors from Canada Category:Philosophers from the United States Category:Philosophers from England Category:Philosophers from Canada Category:People from Hull Category:Feminists from England Category:Women's rights activists Category:Women activists from England Category:Women activists from the United States Category:Women activists from Canada Category:LGBT people Category:Women authors from the United States Category:Women authors from England Category:Women journalists from Canada Category:Women journalists from the United States Category:Women born in the 19th century Category:Women journalists from England