Notable Lesbians
Thursday, December 20th, 2007This week’s Notable Lesbian is:
Sarah Paulson
December 17, 1974 -
Sarah is a Golden Globe-nominated American actress who was a series regular
on the cult television show American Gothic and the WB series Jack & Jill (1999), playing the character “Elisa Cronkite”. In addition, she had a minor role in the HBO series Deadwood, and was a focal character in an episode of the critically acclaimed FX series Nip/Tuck. She briefly appeared on the NBC series Leap of Faith (2002) as the main character, but the show was short-lived. In 2004, she had a supporting role in the ABC series The D.A., but that show also ended after a few episodes. Sarah’s movie credits include Down with Love, What Women Want, The Other Sister, Levitation, and Serenity.
In 2005, Paulson was indirectly outed by girlfriend Cherry Jones during the 59th Tony Awards, when Jones thanked her by the name “Laura Wingfield” (the character Paulson was then playing in The Glass Menagerie) during her award acceptance speech. In 2007, Sarah and Cherry declared their love for each other in an interview with VelvetPark at Women’s Event 10 for the LGBT Center of NYC.
Interesting tid bit:
Paulson starred in a revival of The Glass Menagerie on Broadway, and has appeared Off-Broadway in Killer Joe, Talking Pictures, and Colder Than Here. n fall 2006, Paulson co-starred in NBC’s Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip playing Harriet Hayes, one of the stars of the show-within-a-show. To date, this is her most notable role, earning her a Golden Globe nomination for best supporting actress in a TV series. However, NBC canceled the series on May 14, 2007.
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rformed on stage in Broadway and London. Russell married, and was widowed, and in 1909 met writer 
won 18 Grand Slam singles titles, 31 Grand Slam women’s doubles titles (an all-time record), and 10 Grand Slam mixed doubles titles. She reached the Wimbledon singles final 12 times, including 9 consecutive years from 1982 through 1990, and won the women’s singles title at Wimbledon a record 9 times. In 1981, shortly after being granted U.S. citizenship, Navratilova came out publicly about her sexual orientation. She said she feared her sexual orientation might disrupt her application for American citizenship following her defection from Czechoslovakia, a country in which, she points out, “gays were sent to insane asylums and lesbians never came out of the closet.”
woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Born in Cedarville, Illinois, she was the eighth of nine children born into a prosperous miller family. Her father was future state senator John H. Addams. She was first cousin twice removed to Charles Addams, noted macabre cartoonist for The New Yorker. In 1889 Addams and her friend, Ellen Gates Starr co-founded Hull House in Chicago, Illinois, one of the first settlement houses in the United States. At its height, Hull House was visited each week by around two thousand people. Its facilities included a night school for adults, kindergarten classes, clubs for older children, a public kitchen, an art gallery, a coffeehouse, a gymnasium, a girls club, a swimming pool, a book bindery, a music school, a drama group, a library, and labor-related divisions. She is probably most remembered for her adult night school, a forerunner of the continuing education classes offered by many community colleges today.
American political activist and daughter of United States Ambassador Alan Keyes, former Republican presidential, senatorial candidate, and adviser to Ronald Reagan. After the 2004 campaign, Marcel-Keyes became a consultant for Keyes’ Illinois office. However, on January 20, 2005, she participated in a march protesting the second inauguration of President George W. Bush. Keyes relieved his daughter from her duties and requested that she move out of an apartment funded by Keyes’ political organizations in Chicago. Marcel-Keyes wrote in her online journal that her parents had given her two weeks to move out of the apartment, and had effectively left her “jobless and … homeless.” She also discussed this series of events in an interview with The Advocate.
In young adulthood she was a “pre-Michael J. Fox conservative” who attended Le Moyne College, a small Jesuit liberal arts college, and went on to teach high school English and coach. In addition to comedy appearances and one-woman-shows such as Correct Me If I’m Right, All Het Up and Kate’s Out Is In, she has written two books, Don’t Get Me Started and What the L. Clinton has also written monthly columns for The Progressive and The Advocate, and blog regularly on 
a declining New England seaport town near the Maine border with New Hampshire. n later life, Jewett often visited Boston, where she was acquainted with many of the most influential literary figures of her day; but she always returned to South Berwick, the “Deephaven” of her stories. Jewett published her first important story in the Atlantic Monthly at age 19, and her reputation grew throughout the 1870s and ’80s. Her most characteristic works include the novella The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896); A Country Doctor (1884), a novel about a New England girl who rejects marriage to become a doctor; and The White Heron (1886), a collection of short stories. Some of Jewett’s poetry was collected in Verses (1916), and she also wrote three children’s books.
Born in Plainfield, New Jersey, Rule studied at Mills College in California. She graduated in 1952, and moved to Canada four years later. Teacher, author, and out lesbian, Rule is best known as a fiction writer. Her awards include the Canadian Authors’ Association Award for Best Novel (1978), the Benson and Hedges Award for Best Short Stories (1978), the Literary Award of the Gay Academic Union (1978), and the Fund for Human Dignity’s Award of Merit (1983). She served on the executive of the Writers’ Union of Canada, and has been an outspoken advocate of both free speech and gay rights, including in the various controversies surrounding the gay magazine The Body Politic. Rule was inducted into the Order of British Columbia in 1998.
Her relationship with Wust is a story for the ages, as Wust was married to a German soldier and the mother of four children. Wust fell in love with Schragenheim’s strength and charisma. They exchanged many poems with one another, expressing their deep affection. In one of the poems, the nicknames they chose to call one another emerged as Aimee & Jaguar. Lilly Wust lived in Berlin till the day of her death on March 31, 2006.
Etheridge is famous as a gay rights activist, having publicly come out as a lesbian in January 1993 at the Triangle Ball, a gay/lesbian celebration of President Bill Clinton’s first inauguration. She is also a committed advocate for environmental issues and in 2006, she toured the US and Canada using biodiesel. In April 2006, Etheridge and Tammy Lynn Michaels announced that Michaels was pregnant with twins via an anonymous sperm donor. Michaels gave birth to a son, Miller Steven, and a daughter, Johnnie Rose, on October 17, 2006.
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.
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.
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.”
Currently, she is an assistant coach for the women’s basketball team at St. Francis College in Brooklyn, NY. In 182 WNBA games played, Wicks scored 823 points, for a total of 4.5 points per game, had 182 assists for one assist per game, recovered 788 rebounds, for a total of 4.3 per game, and had 158 blocks, for a total of 0.90 blocks per game. She finished her WNBA career as the number eight leader of all times in shots blocked. Wicks was one of the few players willing to discuss lesbianism (Wicks herself is openly lesbian) in the WNBA during her career. “I can’t say how many players are gay,” noted Wicks in a 2000 Village Voice article, “but it would be easier to count the straight ones.”
