Radical Lesbians Featured in the New Yorker

[Mark Kohut]

Misc. Phlip Roth's next novel is supposed to center on a lesbian....



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This week's NY'er.  living in a penisless reality.

rich

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/03/02/090302fa_fact_levy

AMERICAN CHRONICLES about Lamar Van Dyke and the lesbian separatist
movement. In the late nineteen-seventies, several thousand women in
North America decided not to concern themselves with equal pay for
equal work, or getting their husbands to do the dishes. Why
capitulate, why compromise when you could separate, live in a world of
your own invention. The lesbian separatists of a generation ago
created a shadow society devoted to living in an alternate, penisless
reality. There were many factions from the Gutter Dykes in Berkeley to
the Radicalesbians in New York City. The most colorful separatists,
although they were not the most influential, nor the most
ideologically stalwart, were the Van Dykes, a roving band of
van-driving vegans who shaved their heads, avoided speaking to men,
and lived on the highways of North America for several years.