Come Out & Play: An adult leap of faith
Friday, September 28th, 2007Today’s Come Out & Play post spotlights coming out as an adult, taking a leap of faith during the middle ages of your life. It’s hard to come out, period. But it’s even harder to come out when your life has already taken another path, when you have already gone down the road for miles only to realize that maybe you should have turned off at a previous exit some time ago. But, even if the road gets bumpy, it’s never too late to come out of the closet.
Her compositions include sonnets, hendecasyllabic verse, and prose poetry. Vivien was born in London, England to a wealthy British father and an American mother from Jackson, Michigan. She grew up in Paris and London. Upon inheriting her father’s fortune at 21, she emigrated permanently to France. Vivien was cultivated and very well-traveled, especially for a woman of the late Victorian and Edwardian periods. She wintered in Egypt, visited China, and explored much of the Middle East, as well as Europe and America. Contemporaries considered her beautiful and elegant, with blonde hair, brown eyes flecked with gold, and a soft-spoken androgynous presence. Before the manifestations of illness, Vivien was well-proportioned and fashionably slender. She wore expensive clothes and particularly loved Lalique jewelry. She died on at the age of 32; the cause of death was reported at the time as “lung congestion”, but likely resulted from pneumonia complicated by alcoholism, drug abuse, and anorexia nervosa. Vivien was interred at Passy Cemetery in the same exclusive Parisian neighborhood where she had lived.
And the Advocate has taken the liberty of outlining the past 40 years for us. I’ve already gone through some of the key time periods … and even I’m a little wet behind the ears. I’m beginning to think that GLBT history should be a course taught in schools. I think it’s available as a college course, but some of this stuff is not only noteworthy, but essential in the teaching of tolerance.
is a scholar whose books on lesbian relationships in history have earned critical praise and awards including the Stonewall Book Award, the Lambda Literary Editor’s Choice Award, the Lambda Literary Award for Best Lesbian/Gay Anthology and the Publishers Triangle Bill Whitehead Award. She is currently a professor of English at California State University. Faderman studied first at UCLA and later at the University of California, Berkeley. She lives with her partner of thirty years, Phyllis. They have one son, Avrom, who earned a PhD from Stanford University.
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She was also the first woman to ski across Greenland. In 1992 and 1993 Bancroft led a four woman expedition to the South Pole on skis. This expedition was the first group of women to reach the South Pole on skis. Her achievements led to her induction into the National Women’s Hall of Fame for the United States. Bancroft currently co-owns an exploration company, Bancroft Arnesen Explore, with Liv Arnesen. In March of 2007, Bancroft and Arnesen were taking part in a trek across the Arctic Ocean to draw attention to the problem of global warming. However, according to The Washington Post, the expedition was called off “after Arnesen suffered frostbite in three of her toes, and extreme cold temperatures drained the batteries in some of their electronic equipment.”
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