RIP Jeanne Cordova, sexy butch activist who led the lesbian-feminist revolution in L.A. Founded the Gay Yellow Pages. Wrote a beautiful history of the time, When We Were Outlaws (Spinsters Ink, 2011), which won the Lambda Book Award for best memoir of the year. Dear friend and compatriot. We offer our condolences to her longtime partner, Lynn H. Ballen.
Carol – or The Price of Salt
Tuesday, January 19th, 2016We finally saw Carol yesterday, based on The Price of Salt, a book we’d read long ago, under the pseudonym of Claire Morgan but written (we knew courtesy of Barbara Grier) by Patricia Highsmith, a favorite author.
For Todd Haynes’s movie, we were struck not only by Cate Blanchett’s portrayal of Carol Aird, but by the fresh-faced Rooney Mara.
“Forbidden Love” by Margaret Talbot, from the New Yorker, provides a nice background–to the book and to Patricia Highsmith.
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