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authors from the 20th century (with a few before and after that period)
who have recorded in fiction, and nonfiction, the history of gay people
telling what life is, and was, during an important time of history. The
series is aimed to show the newer gay generations what came before and
how these writers helped them to have it so much better. It is also
aimed at nongay people who will hopefully understand why gay people
deserve the rights that nongay people have. Aside from having historic
value they all are great reading!
They will not be presented in any particular order.
Rita
Mae Brown is the only writer that I ever wrote a fan letter to and I
have her answer in a frame on my wall. If she wrote nothing else but the
heart wrenching, nonfiction "Rubyfruit Jungle" she would still be on
all lists as one of the best of the Twentieth Century. She has written
many other books but her most fun loving ones have been co-authored by
Sneaky Brown Pie, her cat. These books are for all animal lovers, mystery fans and people who love to read about small town life .
She
has written THE manual for all would be writers and takes you behind
the scenes of fox hunting. In spite of her fame, fortune and world
reknown she is, at heart, a farm girl.
FROM WIKIPEDIA:
Rita Mae Brown (born November 28, 1944) is an American writer. She is best known for her first novel Rubyfruit Jungle . Published in 1973, it dealt with lesbian themes in an explicit manner unusual for the time. Brown is also a mystery writer and screenwriter .
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Early life
Brown was born in Hanover, Pennsylvania , and grew up in Florida , and as of 2004 lived outside Charlottesville, Virginia .
In the 1960s, Brown attended the University of Florida but transferred.[ 1] She moved to New York and attended New York University , where she received a degree in classics and English. Later she received another degree in cinematography from the New York School of Visual Arts . She also holds a doctorate in political science from the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C. [ 2]
Political activism
In the late 1960s, Brown turned her attention to politics. She became active in the American Civil Rights Movement , the anti-war movement, the Gay Liberation movement and the feminist movement . She co-founded the Student Homophile League and participated in the Stonewall riots [ 3] in New York City. She took an administrative position with the fledgling National Organization forWomen , but angrily resigned in February 1970 over Betty Friedan 's anti-gay remarks and NOW's attempts to distance itself from lesbian organizations. 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.[ 4]
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. [ 4]
She has said, "I don't believe in straight or gay. I really don't. I think we're all degrees of bisexual." [ 5]
Personal life
Brown has been in relationships with tennis player Martina Navratilova , actress/writer Fannie Flagg , socialite Judy Nelson , and politician Elaine Noble .[ 6]
Brown enjoys American fox hunting and is master of her Fox Hunt Club. She has also played polo , and started the women-only Blue Ridge Polo Club.[ 7]
She has written 23 books PLUS "co-authored" another 18 with Sneaky Pie Brown and 9 screenplays that have been made into films.
