16 Facts About Jill Johnston

Jill Johnston was a British-born American feminist author and cultural critic.

Jill Johnston is most famous for her radical lesbian feminism book, Lesbian Nation and was a longtime writer for The Village Voice.

Jill Johnston was a leader of the lesbian separatist movement of the 1970s.

Jill Johnston received her bachelor's degree from Tufts University in 1951.

Jill Johnston was friendly with many performers, performance artists, composers, poets and artists associated with the Judson Dance Theater, and championed postmodern movements like Fluxus and artists like Yvonne Rainier, Robert Morris, Merce Cunningham, and Lucinda Childs.

Jill Johnston was a member of a 1971 New York City panel produced by Shirley Broughton as part of the "Theater for Ideas" series.

Jill Johnston frequently hosted "lesbian camp weekends" at her country house in upstate New York; one regular visitor was architect Phyllis Birkby, who she had met at the Women's College of North Carolina.

Birkby and Jill Johnston collaborated on the anthology Amazon Expedition, and contemplated purchasing land for a lesbian living space together in the Berkshires.

Jill Johnston was one of the first countercultural and lesbian writers at Ms.

For radical feminists like me, Ellen Willis, and Jill Johnston, we had a different kind of magazine in mind.

Jill Johnston hung out with Establishment figures; we had only ourselves.

Jill Johnston remained with The Village Voice until 1981 and subsequently wrote freelance art and literary criticism.

Jill Johnston performed in John Cage's Music Walk in 1962, and Karlheinz Stockhausen's Jill Johnston Dancing.

In 1958, Jill Johnston married Richard John Lanham, whom she divorced in 1964.

On September 10,2010, Jill Johnston suffered a stroke in Hartford, Connecticut.

Jill Johnston died eight days later, on September 18,2010, at the age of 81.