![]() Catherine Ryan Hyde Skip forward to adolescence. I would have liked it a couple of years earlier. I was about 18 when this novel came to be. I breathed as if I hadn’t breathed in years. It was like opening a window and letting air into a painfully stuffy room. Before that, I was at the library searching out dusty tomes from the 20s and 30s like “The Well of Loneliness,” and then, wholly unable to get through them, trying to decide if they were more boring or more depressing (hint: sometimes it’s a tie). Source: To me, Rubyfruit Jungle was the opening act of the Renaissance in LGBT lit. She has also played polo, and started the women-only Blue Ridge Polo Club. ![]() I think we're all degrees of bisexual."īrown has been in relationships with tennis player Martina Navratilova, actress/writer Fannie Flagg, socialite Judy Nelson, and politician Elaine Noble.īrown enjoys American fox hunting and is master of her Fox Hunt Club. She has said, "I don't believe in straight or gay. In the early 1970s, she became a founding member of The Furies Collective, a lesbian feminist newspaper collective which held that heterosexuality was the root of all oppression. She played a leading role in the "Lavender Menace" zap of the Second Congress to Unite Women on May 1, 1970, which protested about Friedan's remarks and the exclusion of lesbians from the women's movement. She took an administrative position with the fledgling National Organization for Women, but angrily resigned with Michela Griffo in January 1970 over Betty Friedan's anti-gay remarks and NOW's attempts to distance itself from lesbian organizations. She became active in the American Civil Rights Movement, the anti-war movement, the Gay Liberation movement and the feminist movement. In the late 1960s, Brown turned her attention to politics. in literature from Union Institute & University in 1976, and holds a doctorate in political science from the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C. Later she received another degree in cinematography from the New York School of Visual Arts. She moved to New York and attended New York University, where she received a degree in classics and English. In the 1960s, Brown attended Broward Community College and the University of Florida but transferred. ![]() Brown is also a mystery writer and screenwriter.īrown was born in Hanover, Pennsylvania, and grew up in Florida, and as of 2004 lived outside Charlottesville, Virginia. Published in 1973, it dealt with lesbian themes in an explicit manner unusual for the time. She is best known for her first novel Rubyfruit Jungle. Elisa_rolle Rita Mae Brown (born November 28, 1944) is an American writer.
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