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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.

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K   L   M   N   O   P   Q   R   S   T   V   W

    K                Top                  K 
Kate Clinton Comedienne/Authoress & Urvashi Vaid Activist
Kate Millett 'Katherine Murry Millett' Authoress/Sculptress/Painter/Feminist Theorist/Activist
Katharine Coman Educator & Katharine Lee Bates Educator/Poetess Created the Poem, America the Beautiful
Katharine Cornell Actress & Nancy Hamilton Playwright
Katharine Hepburn Actress
Katharine Virginia Forrest Authoress/Educator
Kathy Kozachenko Politician
k. d. 'Kathy Dawn' lang Vocalist
Kitty Tsui 'Kit Fan Tsui' Poetess/Authoress/Journalist
Ko-come-ne-pe-ca Guide/Courier/Interpreter A Kutenai "berdache", meaning "two-spirited" - a cross-dressing Native American Woman
Kris Kovick Cartoonist

    L                Top                  L 
Lady Eleanor Butler & Sarah Ponsonby The Ladies of Llangollen
Laura de Force Gordon Suffragist/Business Woman/Attorney/Women's Rights Litigator/Orator
Laura Nyro Vocalist/Lyricist & Maria Desiderio
Laura Towne Abolitionist & Ellen Murray Abolitionist The Penn School co-founders
Lauren Lloyd Producer
Laurette Taylor Actress
Leslie Belzberg Producer
Leslie Gore Vocalist
Libby Holman Actress
Lili Damita Actress
Lillian D. Wald Nurse/Social Reformer The Henry Street Settlement and Visiting Nurse Service co-founder & Helen "Judge" Arthur
               Attorney/Theatrical Producer
Lillian Faderman Authoress/Historian/Educator & Phyllis Irwin
Lillian Smith Novelist/Activist & Paula Snelling Athletic Director
Lilli Vincenz "Lily Hansen" Authoress
Lily Tomlin Comedienne/Writer/Actress/Producer & Jane Wagner Writer/Director/Producer
Linda Perry Vocalist
Lisa Ben 'Edith Eyde' Pioneering Journalist/Editor/Folk Vocalist
Lizabeth Scott Actress
Lizzie Borden & Nance O'Neill Actress
Loie Fuller Pioneer of Modern Dance
Lorraine Hansberry Authoress
Lora Zane Actress
Louisa May Alcott Novelist
Louise Brooks Actress
Louise Imogene Guiney Poetess/Literary Scholar & Alice Brown Writer
Lucy Diggs Slowe Educator/Reformist & Mary Powell Burrill Authoress/Educator
Lucy Harrison Educator & Amy Greener Educator

    M                Top                  M 
Mabel Dodge Art Patron
Mabel Hampton Entertainer/Activist/Domestic Worker & Lillian Foster Dry Cleaning Presser
Madeline D. Davis Activist/Historian/Librarian/Musician & Wendy Smiley
Madonna Ciccone Vocalist/Actress
"Ma" Rainy 'Gertrude Melissa Nix Pidgett' Vocalist
March Hoffman "Artemis March" Authoress
Margaret C. Anderson Poetess/Editor/Publisher/Essayist & Jane Heap Authoress/Painter
Margaret Fuller Authoress
Margaret Mead Anthropologist/Authoress & Ruth Benedict "Anne Singleton" Anthropologist/Poetess
Margaret Mihee Choe Authoress
Margaret Randall Authoress & Barbara Byers Artist
Margaret Roff Gay Rights Activist/Politician First openly Lesbian (or gay) mayor in the U.K.
Marguerite Yourcenar 'Marguerite de Crayencour' Authoress & Grace Frick Academic
Mariá Elena Walsh Authoress
Maria Maggenti Filmmaker
Marie-Claire Blais Authoress
Marie Corelli 'Mary Mackay' Novelist & Bertha "Adrian" Vyver
Marie Dressler Actress
Marie 'Jayne' Kuda Activist/Authoress/Critic/Publisher/Educator & Shirley Rissmann Weight Lifter/Advertising Production Manager
Marilyn Hacker Poetess/Editor/Educator & Karyn London Medical Professional
Marion Glass "Meridith Grey" Authoress
Marion Zimmer Bradley "Lee Chapman"; "Miriam Gardner"; "John Dexter"; "Morgan Ives" Authoress
Marjorie Main Comedienne/Actress & Spring Byington Actress
Marleen Gorris Filmmaker
Marlene Dietrich Actress
Marlene Stenten Authoress
Martha Altman "Martha Shelley" Authoress
Martina Navratilova Athlete-Professional Tennis Player/Authoress/Activist & Judy Nelson Businesswoman
Mary Anderson "Murray Hill" Passing Woman-Politician
Mary Daly Theologian/Philosopher/Feminist Theorist/Educator/Author
Mary Dorcey Authoress
Mary Edmonia Lewis Sculptress
Mary Elizabeth Garrett Philanthropist/Feminist/Suffragist & M. 'Martha' Carey Thomas Educator/Feminist/Social Activist Endowed
               John Hopkins College with a Medical School, in which Women were admitted equally with men
Mary Wings "Mary Geller" Authoress
Mary MacLane Authoress
Mary Martin Actress & Janet Gaynor Actress
Mary Mendola Authoress/Producer
Mary Morgan Judge First openly Lesbian judge to be appointed to a Municipal Court in the U.S.
Mary Renault 'Eileen Mary Challans' Authoress/Nurse & Julie Mullard Nurse
Mary Rozet Smith & Jane Addams Social Reformer/Settlement Activist/Peace Activist/Authoress
Maude Adams Actress
May 'Eleanor' Sarton Authoress/Poetess & Judith Matlock
Melinda Paras Activist
Mena Suvari Actress
Melissa Etheridge Vocalist/Lyricist & Tammy Lynn Michaels Actress
Michael Field 'Katharine Harris Bradley & Edith Emma Cooper' Authoresses Writing Team
Michelle Cliff Novelist/Editor/Educator & Adrienne 'Cecile' Rich Poetess/Essayist/Feminist Theorist/Educator
Michelle Parkerson Filmmaker
Michelle Wolff Actress
Mildred Ella "Babe" Didrickson Athlete Extraordinaire & Betty Dodd Professional Golfer
Minnie Bruce Pratt Poetess/Essayist/Educator/Activist & Leslie Feinberg Transgendered Writer/Activist
Miss Martha Mathews & Miss Clara Shepherd Hosmer Hall co-founders
Miss Mary Ann Willson Painter & Miss Brundage Farmerette
Missy Giove Athlete-Professional Bicyclist
Monika Treut Filmmaker
Monique Wittig Authoress/Theorist
Muffin Spencer-Devlin Athlete-Professional Golfer
Muriel Rukeyser Poetess
Myrna Loy Actress

    N                Top                  N 
Nancy Cook Suffragist/Pacifist & Marion Dickerman Suffragist/Pacifist Business and Life Partners
Nancy Dean "Elizabeth Lang" Authoress/Playwright
Nancy Kulp Actress
Nancy Rawles Authoress/Playwright
Natalie Clifford Barney Authoress & Romaine Brooks Painter
Natacha Rambova Heiress
Nella Larson Novelist
Nellie Cashman Entrepreneur/Philanthropist

    O                Top                  O 
Olga Broumas Poetess/Translator/Educator
Ona Munson Actress

    P                Top                  P 
Pat Bond Actress/Comedienne/Activist
Pat Califia Authoress/Journalist/Activist/Sex Educator
Pat Parker 'Patricia Cook' Poetess/Activist/Educator/Women`s Health Care Worker & Marty Dunham
Patricia Highsmith 'Mary Patricia Plangman' "Claire Morgan" Novelist
Patricia Nell Warren Novelist/Editor/Artist
Patricia Rozema Filmmaker
Patsy Kelly Comedienne
Paula Gunn Allen Authoress/Educator
Paula Vogel Playwright
Pearl M. Hart 'Pearl Minnie Harchovsky' Pioneering Civil Rights Attorney/Activist Gerber/Hart Library and Archives co-founder
               & Blossom O'Bryan Actress
Phyllis 'Ann' Lyon "Ann Ferguson" Activist/Authoress/Sex Educator & Del 'Dorothy L.' Martin Activist/Authoress Editors of the
               Daughters of Bilits magazine, The Ladder
Portia Rossi Actress
Pratibha Parmar Filmmaker/Photographer/Activist/Authoress

    Q                Top                  Q 
Queen Christina Swedish Royalty

    R                Top                  R 
Rachel Louise Carson Scientist/Naturalist/Environmental Activist/Authoress & Dorothy Murdoch Freeman State Administrator
Radclyffe Hall, or "John" 'Marguerite Antonia Radclyffe-Hall' Novelist/Poetess & Lady Una Troubridge Sculptress/
               Vocalist/Translator
Rebecca Primus Educator - Established the Primus Institute & Addie Brown A Free Black Woman African-American Lovers during
               the American Civil War era
Renée Vivien 'Pauline Mary Tarn' Poetess/Authoress & Baroness Hélèn de Zuylen de Nyevelt 'Rothschild' Poetess/Authoress
Rikki Streicher Activist/Businesswoman & Mary Sanger
Rita Mae Brown Activist/Novelist/Poetess/Screenwriter/Teleplay Writer
Rosa Bonheur Painter & Anna Klumpke Painter
Rosalind Russell Actress
Rose Cleveland Presidential First Lady/First Sister & Evangeline 'Eve' Marss Simpson
Rose Troche Filmmaker
Rosie O'Donnell Comedienne/Actress/Television Hostess/Producer/Publisher & Kelli Carpenter Marketing Executive
Running Eagle - 'sakwo'mapi akikwan', or, 'boy-girl' & Suya'ki Both Women of the Native American Crow tribe
Ruth & Jean Mountaingrove Establishers of Rootworks, a Lesbian Separatist Community
R. R. "Zan" Knudson 'Ruth Rozanne Knudson' Authoress & May Swenson Poetess/Authoress

    S                Top                  S 
Sally Miller Gearhart Activist/Educator/Authoress
Sally Potter Film Director
Sandy Dennis Actress
Sapphire 'Ramona Lofton' Authoress/Performer/Educator
Sappho Poetess
Sarah Orne 'Theodora' Jewett "Alice Eliot" Novelist/Poetess & Annie Adams Fields Diarist
Sara Norman & Mary Hammond Young Lovers during the mid-1600's
Sara Teasdale Poetess
Sarah Aldridge 'Anyda Marchant' Authoress
Sarah Schulman Authoress/Activist
Sharon Kowalski & Karen Thompson Both Disabled Rights Activists/Physical Education Instructors
Selma Lagerlöf Authoress Nobel Prize Winner & Valborg Ohlander Schoolteacher
Shelly Roberts 'Sheila Rhodes' Authoress/Humorist/Activist
Sheila James Kuehl Actress/Politician First openly Lesbian (or gay) state legislator in California
Sinéad Mother Bernadette Maria O'Connor Vocalist/Political Activist
Sophie Yakovlevna Parnok Poetess/Tr
Sophie Ward Actress
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Poetess
Susan Griffin Essayist/Playwright/Poetess
Susie Bright Authoress/Editor
Sylvia Beach Feminist/Publisher/Authoress/Translator & Adrienne Monnier Educator Paris Bookshop Owners during the 1940's
Sylvia Townsend Warner Authoress/Musicologist/Poetess & Valentine Ackland Poetess

    T                Top                  T 
Tallulah Bankhead Actress
Tammy Baldwin Politician
Tammy Billik Casting Director
Tanya Wexler Film Director
Tee A. Corinne "Giselle Commons" Artist/Authoress/Editor/Educator & Honey Lee Cottrell Photographer
Tret Fure Musician

    V                Top                  V 
Velma Nacella Young "Valerie Taylor" Authoress
Vanessa Redgrave Actress
Vernon Lee 'Violet Paget' Aesthetic Theorist/Essayist/Authoress & Kit 'Clementina' Anstruther-Thomson Essayist
Vida Scudder Educator/Activist/Socialist & Florence Converse Educator/Authoress
Violette Leduc Authoress
Virginia Apuzzo Activist
Virginia Woolf 'Adeline Virginia Stephen' Authoress & Vita Sackville-West Authoress
Vita Sackville-West Authoress & Violet Keppel Authoress

    W                Top                  W 
Willa Cather Novelist & Edith Lewis
Winnaretta Singer 'Princess de Polignac' Heiress/Royalty