The Lavender Herring: Lesbian Essays from the Ladder

by Barbara Grier (Editor), Coletta Reid (Editor)

Essays written between 1968 and 1972 include the writers Barbara Grier, Lee Lynch, Rita Mae Brown and many others. Includes 33 photographs. The essays are grouped in the following subjects: Early pioneers, Lesbian Lifestyle, Call to Feminism, Sexual Underpinning, Lesbians and the Times, Lesbian Image in Art.

Genres: Lesbian

357 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1976

About the author

Barbara Grier, born on November 4, 1933 in Cincinnati, Ohio, was an American writer and publisher most widely known for co-founding Naiad Press and writing and editing The Ladder under the pseudonym Gene Damon. As bibliographer, reviewer, collector, editor, and co-founder of Naiad Press, she was an important nurturer of lesbian literature. Grier and her partner Donna McBride, along with Anyda Marchant and Muriel Crawford, founded Naiad Press, which became America's foremost publisher of lesbian books. In 1985 Grier earned the President's Award for Lifetime Service from the Gay Academic Union. In 1991, Grier and McBride, representing Naiad Press, was given the Lambda Literary Award for Publisher's Service. Grier and McBride were given the Lambda Literary Pioneer Award in 2002. Grier and McBride retired and sold the Naiad backlist to Bella Books in 2003. Barbara Grier, publisher, activist, archivist and lesbian-feminist hellraiser, died November 10th, 2011 in Tallahassee, Florida, where she had lived for years with her partner of four decades, Donna McBride.

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