Barbara Love helped to found consciousness-raising groups for lesbian feminists and was active in the gay liberation movement.
21 Facts About Barbara Love
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Barbara Love helped in the presentation to the American Psychiatric Association which led to the removal of homosexuality from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
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Barbara Love was born on February 27,1937, and grew up in Ridgewood, New Jersey.
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Barbara Love had several potential areas of contention with her parents as a Democratic lesbian feminist.
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Barbara Love became isolated from the rest of the family because she had friends who were not Protestants or Country Club members and many that were poor.
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Barbara Love began having crushes on girls in middle school, but did not realize she was a lesbian and did not have anyone to talk to about her feelings.
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Barbara Love studied journalism and graduated in 1959 from Syracuse University.
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Barbara Love became involved in the women's movement and the National Organization for Women when there was a small New York chapter and national board.
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Barbara Love learned about it while interviewing Long John Nebel, meeting with a NOW founder, Muriel Fox, and talking to the Long Island Press journalist Dolores Alexander who had interviewed Betty Friedan.
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Barbara Love was invited to a meeting of the chapter's board of directors at Friedan's apartment in the Dakota Building.
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Barbara Love helped to organize some of the group's demonstrations and participated in the demonstration against The New York Times, Colgate-Palmolive, and men-only restaurants and hotels.
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Barbara Love developed the Foremost Women in Communications by compiling the information, editing it, and having it published.
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Barbara Love began the work in 1970 having realized the need to create a resource of the women's accomplishments and ability in the communication field.
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Abbott and Barbara Love left Radicalesbians and formed 26 consciousness-raising groups in the late 1970s.
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Sidney Abbott and Barbara Love were among the first feminists to join the gay liberation movement.
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Barbara Love helped publicize the first meeting of Parents of Gays, now the national PFLAG National organization.
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Barbara Love was able to reach out to the lesbian community as I reached out to the gay male community in an effort to publicize this [meeting].
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Barbara Love co-founded a free walk-in center for gays, Identity House.
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In 1971, Barbara Love co-authored the first non-fiction book about lesbianism from a positive perspective, Sappho Was a Right-on Woman, with Sidney Abbott.
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Barbara Love was assisted by Veteran Feminists of America members.
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Barbara Love's book has been the subject of discussion or conferences at VFA and NOW events.