Author: Jill Johnston
Publisher: High Risk
1998
“As a contributor to the Village Voice in the 1970's, Jill Johnston was the first writer to come out as a lesbian in the mass media. Her 1973 book, Lesbian Nation, was a bible for militant feminists. This collection gathers more than seventy of the wildly inventive rants, reviews and diatribes Johnston wrote during that explosive era. . . . Johnston claims Gertrude Stein as her intellectual and stylistic forerunner. Hopefully, this collection will spark a reevaluation and appreciation of an important lesbian theorist and writer.” —Rebecca Brown