- Collection:
- LGBTQ Collection
- Title:
- Lorraine Fontana oral history interview, 2012-10-29
- Creator:
- Fontana, Lorraine
- Contributor to Resource:
- Rink, Hillery
- Publisher:
- Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia State University Library
- Date of Original:
- 2012-10-29
- Subject:
- Lesbian activists
Lesbian feminism
Sexual minorities--Political activity
Italian Americans
Atlanta Lesbian Feminist Alliance - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, 33.79025, -84.46702
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
United States, New York, Kings County, Brooklyn, 40.6501, -73.94958 - Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
interviews - Type:
- Sound
- Format:
- audio/mpeg
- Description:
- Born in Queens, NY, 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 in 1968, she came to Atlanta, and together with other feminists, founded the Atlanta Lesbian Feminist Alliance (ALFA - 1972 to 1994), and later DARII (Dykes for the Second American Revolution). She trained at the People’s College of Law in L.A. (1976-79) and went on to work with the National Jury Project, Georgia Legal Services, the EEOC in New York City (Oct 1999 to Jan, 2004), and Georgia’s Lambda Legal Education & Defense Fund (2006-2012). 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 the first of two interviews for the Gender and Sexuality Oral History Project, Lorraine Fontana discusses her early life growing up in Brooklyn, N.Y. in a working-class Italian-American home, the experiences that led to the realization of her lesbian identity, and her feminist activism with the Atlanta Lesbian Feminist Alliance. - Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/lgbtq/id/4772
- IIIF manifest:
- https://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/iiif/2/lgbtq:4772/manifest.json
- 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 Hillery Rink, October 29, 2012, Gender and Sexuality Oral History Project, Archives for Gender and Sexuality. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University.
- Extent:
- 01:49:55
- Original Collection:
- Gender and Sexuality Oral History Project
http://research.library.gsu.edu/gender_sexuality
Archives for Gender and Sexuality - Holding Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
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