16 Facts About Ivy Bottini

Ivy Bottini was an American activist for women's and LGBT rights, and a visual artist.

Ivy Bottini was employed for sixteen years at the east coast daily newspaper Newsday, until her move to Los Angeles in 1971.

Ivy Bottini was engaged to several men, with each engagement lasting only a few weeks before she'd end the relationship.

Ivy Bottini married her husband of sixteen years, Eddie, on January 12,1952.

Ivy Bottini's doctor realized her symptoms were related to anxiety and referred her to a psychiatrist.

Ivy Bottini expressed to the psychiatrist that she felt attracted to women, but the psychiatrist told her she was not homosexual.

Ivy Bottini suggested she abandon her friends and interests and "cleave" to her soon-to-be husband, Eddie.

Ivy Bottini did as her psychiatrist instructed, but her lesbian desires did not subside.

Ivy Bottini helped found the New York chapter of NOW in 1966.

Ivy Bottini left her husband and moved in with a woman in New York City.

Ivy Bottini studied acting at Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute and performed a one-woman show, The Many Faces of Women, nationwide.

Ivy Bottini died in Florida on February 25,2021, at the age of 94.

Ivy Bottini later chaired the successful No on LaRouche and No on 64 Initiative campaign.

Ivy Bottini advocated for the creation of an AIDS memorial in West Hollywood.

Ivy Bottini participated in an Oral History project by The Lavender Effect, which documented her personal life and work as an activist.

In 1998, the Ivy Bottini Theater was established in her honor in West Hollywood.