Rink, HilleryUnited States, Georgia, Fulton County, 33.79025, -84.46702United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798United States, New York, Kings County, Brooklyn, 40.6501, -73.94958Fontana, Lorraine2012-10-29Born 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.audio/mpegengAtlanta, Ga. : Georgia State University Libraryhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Gender and Sexuality Oral History Projecthttp://research.library.gsu.edu/gender_sexualityArchives for Gender and SexualityLesbian activistsLesbian feminismSexual minorities--Political activityItalian AmericansAtlanta Lesbian Feminist AllianceLorraine Fontana oral history interview, 2012-10-29Sound