- Collection:
- Great Speckled Bird
- Title:
- Lorraine Fontana oral history interview, 2019-06-26
- Creator:
- Fontana, Lorraine
- Contributor to Resource:
- Reisinger, Andrew
- Publisher:
- Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia State University Library
- Date of Original:
- 2019-06-26
- Subject:
- Social Justice
Journalism
Lesbian activists
Gay rights
Lesbians--Identity
Lesbian community
Coming out (Sexual orientation) - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, 33.79025, -84.46702
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798 - Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
interviews - Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- Born in Queens, N.Y. in 1947, Lorraine Fontana became an anti-war activist and supporter of the civil rights and black empowerment movements early in life. After joining VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America) in 1968, she came to Atlanta, where she co-founded the Atlanta Lesbian Feminist Alliance (ALFA), later known as DAR II (Dykes for the Second American Revolution). Fontana trained at the People’s College of Law in Los Angeles from 1976 to 1979 and went on to work with the National Jury Project, Georgia Legal Services, the EEOC in New York City, and Georgia’s Lambda Legal Education & Defense Fund. She was a member of the short-lived Queer Progressive Agenda (QPA) and is currently a supporter of First Existentialist Congregation of Atlanta’s Social Justice Guild, the Georgia Peace & Justice Coalition, Charis Books, the Atlanta Grandmothers for Peace, SAGE Atlanta, and Southerners on New Ground.
In this interview, Lorraine Fontana discusses her involvement with the Great Speckled Bird, her memories and perception of the staff, and the lesbian perspective she brought to the newspaper. She also provides significant insight into the formation and operations of the Atlanta Lesbian Feminist Alliance (ALFA) and its intersectional philosophy and actions. - Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/GSB/id/10266
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- Copyright to this item is owned by Georgia State University Library. Georgia State University Library has made this item available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. For more information see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: Fontana, Lorraine, interviewed by Andrew Reisinger, June 26, 2019, Great Speckled Bird Oral History Project, Social Change Collection. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University.
- Extent:
- 03:19:17
- Original Collection:
- Great Speckled Bird Collection
Social Change Collection - Holding Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
-
