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Just days after being named a finalist in Curve's First Annual Lesbian Awards, in the October 2010 Special 20th Anniversary Collector's Edition, legendary lesbian feminist author Jill Johnston has died. Johnston, whose weekly column for the Village Voice incisively documented the lesbian, feminist revolution of the 1960s and '70s, was 81. She is survived by her wife, Ingrid Nyeboe, who told the New York Times that Johnston died Saturday at Hartford Hospital, near their home in Connecticut, from complications from a stroke she suffered earlier this month. Though her muckraking days were behind her, Johnston will always be revered for her challenging (some say militant) 1973 tome, Lesbian Nation: The Feminist Solution as well as her long-running column.
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A memorial site was created for Jill Johnston! Honor her memory by contributing to her memorial site http://jilljohnston.people2remember.com/
Thanks for your obit on Jill. Great photo! Could you kindly mail me the edition of Curve Magazine in which Jill is named a finalist--what does it mean?
Mail to:
Ingrid Nyeboe
PO Box 688
Sharon CT 06069