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Elsa Gidlow

Born

in Yorkshire, The United Kingdom

December 29, 1898

Died

June 08, 1986

Genre

Poetry, Lesbian

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Elsa Gidlow (29 December 1898 – 8 June 1986) was a poet, who in 1923 published the first volume of openly lesbian love poetry in the United States, On a Grey Thread. She promoted alternative spiritualities including Buddhism and Goddess Worship. In the 1940s she founded a rural retreat center, the Druid Heights Artists Retreat, in Marin County, California. She lived there until her death in 1986. Other residents at Druid Heights have included well-known figures such as her close friend Alan Watts and feminist theorist Catharine MacKinnon. ...more

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	Female Erasure: What You Need to Know About Gender Politics' War on Women, the Female Sex and Human Rights by Ruth Barrett (Editor), Germaine Greer (Foreword), Lane Anderson 4.10 avg rating — 153 ratings — published 2016 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On a Grey Thread 4.38 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 1923 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Elsa: I Come With My Songs 4.57 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 1985 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sapphic Songs: Eighteen to Eighty 3.87 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 1982 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sapphic songs: Seventeen to Seventy 4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“You say I am mysterious.
Let me explain myself:
In a land of oranges
I am faithful to apples.”
― Elsa Gidlow

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“Woman, so gentle in my arms
Loving, you have opened to me
Fierce, my own dark heart
And found therein and to me reflected
My source of light.”
― Elsa Gidlow

tags: lesbian-love, love, wlw

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“I leave it to the male humans to speak for themselves (as they have long done anyway) concerning whether their path to spiritual union is through identification with "The Father", a "God" image, or any other sort of male personification of a "Savior": including those who call themselves "Gay". Has it occurred to any psychological sleuths the extent to which male identification with a totally male God, Trinity, Christ-image, not to mention all the male Buddhas, partakes of homosexuality? Who condemns "the beloved disciple, John, because he "lay in Jesus' bosom"? It would not be hard to see the Christian church as an exclusive male homosexual club.”
― Elsa Gidlow, Ask No Man Pardon: The Philosophical Significance of Being Lesbian

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