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Different Daughters: A History of the Daughters of Bilitis and the Rise of the Lesbian Rights Movement

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Different Daughters is an important addition the library of anyone interested in the development of the lesbian and gay rights movement in the United States.

It covers the often neglected early days of the Lesbian Movement in the pre-Stonewall era from its humble birth in San Francisco and Los Angeles through its development into a broad based movement in the 1970s.

Marcia Gallo's look at early lesbian rights pioneers is exceptional and it contains information we need to know and hand down to "our" younger generations. The book is fascinating and important.
Fay Jacobs
Author of For Frying Out Loud - Rehoboth Beach Diaries

This book on the Daughter's of Bilitis is well written and well researched. I was so happy to see it. I believe this was the first Lesbian Organization and it was quite active and successful even though it was founded in the 50's! It is a rare more intimate look into lesbian history in America. These women were amazingly brave and courageous even printing a newsletter (The Ladder) in a time when you could still be arrested for being a lesbian even in San Francisco- where it all began.
Very interesting read. Angela Brinskele, Director of Communications, The Mazer Lesbian Archives

A look at one of the first lesbian organizations in America. Yowza Beans, I didn't know..Lots of famous people expoused them. Yowza. I liked Sally fielD in "Not Without My Daughter." Neat look at Women's oppression. Who the Heck's "Bilitis." Gonna check it out. Radical like Body Count's "Cop Killer" and Steven Lee Beeber's "The Heebie-Jeebies at cbgb's". A radical account of that (Yo Steve!)wonderful life. Wunderbar as my German motheR might say.