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This Wing of the Community shall be devoted to all of those most
remarkable Lesbians and Bisexual Women out there, past and present.

The following tabulation is offered for our Guest`s personal information
and for their entertainment. Included are many of the most distinguished
and/or more distinctive Womyn who have given of themselves to aid
in the creation and the shaping of our rich and proud HERstory.

This tabulation is also inter-linked with the Notable Womyn Gallery.
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A   B   C   D   E   F   G   H   I   J

    A                Top                  A 
Agnes Moorehead Actress
Aimée Duc 'Minna Wettstein-Adelt' Authoress
Alberta Hunter Vocalist/Nurse
Alberta Lucille Hart "Dr. Alan Hart" Pioneering Transgendered Person & Isabella 'Maude' Dabney
Alejandra Pizarnik Poetess/Authoress
Alejandra Sarda Activist
Alice Austen Photographer & Gertrude Tate Educator/Dance Instructor
Alice Dunbar-Nelson Authoress/Historian/Orator & Edwina B. Kruse Educator
Alice French "Octave Thanet" Novelist/Essayist & Jane Crawford
Alice James Authoress & Katharine Loring Educator/Librarian
Alice Mitchell & Freda Ward Teen-aged Lovers during the late 1800's
Alice Paul Feminist/Suffragist/Activist/Scholar & Lucy Burns Suffragist
Alice Temple Vocalist & Rachel Williams Super-model
Alison Bechdel Cartoonist
Alix Dobkin Folk Vocalist/Lyricist/Women`s Music Pioneer
Alix Olson Poetess
Alla Nazimova Actress/Screenwriter/Producer
Amanda Bearse Actress/Director
Amelia Earhart Aviatrix/Social Worker/Authoress
Amélie Mauresmo Athlete-Professional Tennis Player & Sylvie Bourdon Restaurant Manager
Amy Lowell Poetess & Ada Dwyer Russell Actress
Anaïs Nin Novelist
Andrea Dworkin Anti-Pornography Activist/Authoress
Anne Whitney Sculptress & Abby Adeline Manning Painter
Angela Robinson Film Director
Angelina Weld Grimké Poetess/Educator & Mamie Burrill Educator
Ani DiFranco Lyricist/Vocalist
Anna Howard Shaw Feminist/Suffragist/Minister/Orator & Lucy Anthony
Ann Aldrich "Maryjane Meeker" Authoress
Anne Lister "Gentleman Jack" Diarist & Marianna Percy Belcombe
Annemarie Schwarzenbach Novelist
Annie Leibowitz Photographer & Susan Sontag Authoress
Annie 'Marie' Hindle Professional Male Impersonator/Stage Entertainer & Annie Ryan
Arny Christine Straayer & Chris Johnson Metis Press co-founders
Aphra Behn "The Incomparable Astrea" Playwright/Novelist/Poetess
Audre Lorde 'Audre Geraldine Lorde' "Zami"; "Gamba Adisa"; "Rey Domini" Poetess/Essayist/Activist/Librarian/Educator
               & Gloria I. Joseph

    B                Top                  B 
Barbara Brooks Gittings Activist/Editor/Librarian/Bibliographer & Kay Tobin 'Kay Lahusen' Activist/Photographer/Authoress
Barbara Deming Peace Activist/Poetess/Essayist/Journalist & Jane Gapen Authoress/Painter
Barbara Gaines Television Producer
Barbara G. Grier "Gene Damon" Activist/Editor/Publisher/Authoress/Bibliographer & Donna J. McBride Librarian Naiad
               Press co-founders
Barbara Hammer Filmmaker
Barbara Jordan Congresswoman
Barbara Love Authoress/Editor/Activist & Sidney Abbott
Barbara Noda Authoress
Barbara Smith Authoress/Educator/Historian/Activist/Editor
Barbara Stanwyck Actress
Barbara Wilson Authoress/Translator/Publisher & Rachel Da Silva Seal Press originators
Beatrice Lillie Comedienne/Actress
Becky Birtha Authoress
Berenice Abbott Photographer
Bertha Harris Authoress/Editor
Bessie Smith Entertainer/Vocalist
Beth Brant "Degonwadonti" Authoress/Editor/Archivist/Activist & Denise Dorsz
Betsy Crowell Authoress & Louise Fishman Painter
Bettina Rheims Photographer
Betty Dodson Artist/Authoress/Sex Educator
Betty Perdue "Geraldine Jackson" Authoress
Billie Holiday "Lady Day" Vocalist
Billie Jean King 'Billie Jean Moffitt' Athlete-Professional Tennis Player/Coach & Marilyn Barnett
Billy Tipton 'Dorothy Tipton' Passing Woman-Musician
Blue Lunden Activist

    C                Top                  C 
Camilla Paglia Authoress/Critic/Educator & Alison Maddex Artist/Curator
Capucine 'Germaine Lefebvre' Model/Actress
Carrie Chapman Catt Suffragist/Activist The League of Women Voters founder & Mary Garrett "Molly" Hay Suffragist
Carson McCullers Novelist
Catharina Margaretha Linck Passing Woman-German Soldier
Chantal Akerman Filmmaker
Charlie Parkhurst 'Charlotte Darkey Parkhurst' Passing Woman-Stagecoach Driver/Rancer/Lumberjack
Charlotte Bunch Political Organizer/Authoress
Charlotte Cushman Actress & Emma Stebbins Sculptress
Charlotte Mew Poetess
Chastity Bono Musician/Activist/Authoress
Cherry Jones Actress
Cherríe Moraga Activist/Authoress/Editor
Cheryl Clarke Poetess/Critic/Essayist/Activist
Chrystos Authoress/Activist
Colette 'Sidonie Gabrielle Collette' Authoress & Mathilde "Missy" de Mornay
Colonel Margarethe Cammermeyer, U.S.A.C. (Ret.) Politician & Diane Divelbess Painter
Connie Panzarino Disabled Rights Activist/Authoress/Artist
Cris Williamson Women's Music Pioneer
Cynthia Nixon Actress & Christine Marinoni Education Activist

    D                Top                  D 
Dame Ethel Smyth Composer/Suffragist/Memoirist/Sports Enthusiast
Deborah Batts Judge First openly Lesbian (or gay) U.S. Federal Judge
Deborah Sampson Passing Woman-Revolutionary War Soldier
Delores Del Rio Actress
Djuna Barnes "Lydia Steptoe" Authoress/Illustrator & Thelma Wood
Dr. Ann Thayer , Ph.D. "Ann Bannon" Novelist/Educator
Dr. Emily Blackwell Physician/Educator & Dr. Elizabeth Cushier Physician/Educator
Dr. Evelyn Hooker, Ph.D. Psychologist
Dr. Grace Raymond Hebard, Ph.D. Civil Engineer/Scholar/Educator/Feminist/Suffragist & Agnes Mathilde Wergeland
               Poetess/Historian
Dr. Harriot K. Hunt Pioneering Physician
Dr. Jeannette Howard Foster, Ph.D. "Hilary Farr"; "Abigail Sanford" Librarian/Scholar/Authoress/Translator
Dr. Marie Equi Physician/Women's Productive Rights Activist & Harriet Speckart Medical Assistant
Dr. Sara Josephine "Jo" Baker Physician/Public Health Activist & Ida Alexa Ross "I. A. R." Wylie Novelist/Screenwriter
               & Dr. Louise Pearce Physician
Dolly Wilde 'Dorothy Ierne Wilde' Authoress & Natalie Clifford Barney Authoress
Donna Deitch Filmmaker
Donna Minkowitz Authoress/Activist
Dorothy E. Allison Authoress
Dorothy Arzner Film Director & Marion Morgan Dancer/Choreographer
Dorothy Thompson Journalist/Foreign Correspondent & Christa Winsloe Authoress
Dusty Springfield Vocalist

    E                Top                  E 
Edith Anne Oenone Somerville Authoress & Violet Florence Martin "Martin Ross" Authoress Collaborative Novelists
Edith Hamilton Scholar/Educator/Authoress & Doris Reed Stockbroker
Edith Head Costume Designer
Edna Ferber Novelist
Edna "Vincent" St. Vincent Millay Poetess
Eileen Myles Poetess/Performer
Elaine Noble Politician/Activist/Educator/Health Care Consultant
Elana Dykewomon 'Elana Nachman' "S. P. Wonder" Authoress/Activist/Printer
Eleanor Roosevelt Presidential First Lady/Activist/Feminist/Humanitarian & Lorena "Hick" Hickock Journalist/Authoress
Elisabeth Irwin Educator/Psychologist & Katharine Anthony Authoress
Elizabeth Bishop Poetess & Lota de Macedo Soares
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Labor Organizer ACLU "American Civil Liberties Union" co-founder
Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy Ethnohistorian/Activist/Educator & Bobbi Prebis Pioneering Activist
Elizabeth Peabody Social and Educational Reformer
Ellen Bedoz 'Ellen Shumsky' Photographer/Authoress
Ellen deGeneres Comedienne/Actress
Ellen Marie Barrett Minister First openly Lesbian cleric to be ordained by any major religion in the U.S.
Ellis Vocalist/Lyricist
Elsa Gidlow Poetess/Philosopher
Elsa Lanchester Actress
Elsa Maxwell Socialite/Gossip Columnist & Dorothy "Dickie" Fellowes-Gordon
Elsie de Wolfe Actress/Interior Decorator/Socialite & Elisabeth "Bessie" Marbury Theatrical Agent/Producer/Politician
Emily Dickinson Poetess & Sue Gilbert
Emma Donoghue Authoress
Emma Goldman Anarchist/Orator
Emmaline Pankhurst Suffragist
Empress Leopoldina Brazilian Royalty & Maria Graham Lady-In-Waiting
Esther Lape Journalist/Publicist & Elizabeth Read Attorney
Esther Tusquets Authoress
Ethel Waters Entertainer/Vocalist/Actress & Ethel Williams Dancer
Eva Le Gallienne Actress/Director/Translator/Authoress
Eve Salvail Super-model

    F                Top                  F 
Florence Conrad 'Florence Jaffy' Authoress
Frances "Frank" Willard Pioneering Feminist/Temperance Leader & Anna Gordon Secretary/Temperance Worker
Francesca Gregorini Vocalist
Fran Winant Painter/Poetess/Activist
Frida Kahlo Painter

    G                Top                  G 
Georgia O'Keeffe Painter & Maria Chabot Authoress
Gertrude Stein Novelist & Alice B. 'Babette' Toklas Authoress
Gia Carangi Super-model
Gladys Bentley Entertainer/Vocalist/Lyricist
Gladys Taber Authoress & Eleanor Mayer
Gloria 'Evangelina' Anzaldúa Authoress/Editor/Educator
Greta Garbo Actress & Mercedes de Acosta Playwright
Gypsy Rose Lee Exotic Dancer/Stage Entertainer

    H                Top                  H 
Hannah Blue Heron Authoress
Harper Lee Authoress
Harriet Hosmer Sculptress
Helen Archibald Clarke Editor/Authoress & Charlotte Endymion Porter Editor/Authoress
Helen Hull Novelist/Educator & Mabel Louise Robinson Educator
Helen Hunt Actress
Helen Maria Winslow Authoress
Hella von Sinnen Entertainer/Comedienne & Cordelia Scheel
H. D. 'Hilda Doolittle' Modernist Poetess/Novelist/Translator & Bryher 'Annie Winifred Ellerman' Authoress
Holly Near Lyricist/Vocalist
Hope Williams Actress

    I                Top                  I 
Ilse Fiskóva-Kornreich Activist
Indigo Chih-Lien Som Visual Artist/Poetess
Irena Klepfisz Authoress/Educator/Activist
Irene Lenz Fashion Designer
Isabel Miller 'Alma Routsong' Novelist/Essayist/Editor
Isadora Duncan Dancer/Choreographer

    J                Top                  J 
Jackie "Moms" Mabley Comedienne
Jane Addams Social Reformer/Settlement Activist/Peace Activist/Authoress ACLU "American Civil Liberties Union" co-founder
               & Ellen Gates Starr The Hull-House Settlement and Visiting Nurse Service co-founders
Jane Chambers Playwright/Novelist/Screenwriter & Beth Allen Manager
Jane Edna Hunter Social Worker Founder of the Phillis Wheatley Home and Association for Working Black Girls
Jane 'Vance' Rule Authoress/Critic/Educator & Helen Sonthoff Educator
Janet Flanner Journalist/Novelist/Essayist/Translator & Solita Solano Journalist
Janet Ross Marder Rabbi
Janice Raymond Educator/Philosopher/Authoress
Janis Ian Vocalist/Lyricist
Janis Joplin Vocalist
Jan Oxenberg Filmmaker
Jacqueline Woodson Authoress
Jean Acker Dancer
Jeanette Winterson Authoress/Editor
Jean O'Leary Activist
Jeanne Cordova Activist/Authoress/Publisher
Jeanne Eagels Actress
Jenny Shimizu Super-model/Actress
Jewelle L. Gomez Poetess/Authoress/Activist & Diane Sabin
Jill Edmond Actress
Jill Johnson "F. J. Crowe" Journalist/Authoress/Critic & Ingrid Nyeboe
Joan Crawford Actress
Joan E. Biren "JEB" Photographer/Activist
Joan Larkin Authoress/Anthologist
Joanna Russ Novelist/Authoress/Essayist/Critic
Joan Nestle Authoress/Archivist/Educator/Activist
Jodie Foster Actress/Director/Producer & Cydney Bernard
Josephine Baker Vocalist & Clara Smith Vocalist
Judith Anderson Actress
Judy Garland 'Frances Gumm' Actress/Vocalist/Dancer
Judy 'Judith Rae' Grahn "Carol Silver" Poetess/Authoress/Cultural Theorist/Activist
Judy Holliday Actress
Julia Morgan Architect
June Arnold Authoress/Publisher & Parke Bowman Attorney Daughters, Inc. co-founders
June Jordan Poetess/Authoress/Activist/Journalist/Educator
June 'Leah' Mazer Activist/Archivist & Bunny MacCulloch