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When We Were Outlaws : a Memoir of Love and Revolution by Córdova, Jeanne is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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A sweeping memoir, a raw and intimate chronicle of a young activist torn between conflicting personal longings and political goals. *When We Were Outlaws* offers a rare view of the life of a radical lesbian during the early cultural struggle for gay rights, Women’s Liberation, and the New Left of the 1970s.Brash and ambitious, activist Jeanne Córdova is living with one woman and falling in love with another, but her passionate beliefs tell her that her first duty is "to the revolution”---to change the world and end discrimination against gays and lesbians. Trying to compartmentalize her sexual life, she becomes an investigative reporter for the famous, underground L.A. Free Press and finds herself involved with covering the Weather Underground and Angela Davis, exposing neo-Nazi bomber Captain Joe Tomassi, and befriending Emily Harris of the Symbionese Liberation Army. At the same time she is creating what will be the center of her revolutionary lesbian world: her own newsmagazine, *The Lesbian Tide,* destined to become the voice of the national lesbian feminist movement.By turns provocative and daringly honest, Cordova renders emblematic scenes of the era---ranging from strike pro
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- Author
- Córdova, Jeanne
- Publisher
- Spinsters Ink Books; Spinsters Ink
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781935226512
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Memoir
- Rating
- 3.85 / 5 (158 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14