"If there was a problem connected with my being a lesbian, even after I became aware of it, it was the loneliness, the fact that I didn't know anybody else like me."
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Philosophers from the United StatesPoets from England20th-century poets from the United StatesPoets from CanadaWomen authors from Canada
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Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives (1977), as cited in Palmer, Chris, October 6, 1978, "'Word is Out' an important film on gays", Bangor Daily News.
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Elsa Gidlow
Elsa Gidlow (29 December 1898 – 8 June 1986) was an English-born, Canadian-American poet, freelance journalist, and philosopher. She is best known for writing On A Grey Thread (1923), possibly the first volume of openly lesbian love poetry published in North America, and for helping to establish Druid Heights, a bohemian community in Marin County, California.
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