- Collection:
- LGBTQ Collection
- Title:
- Lorraine Fontana oral history interview, 2012-12-11
- Creator:
- Fontana, Lorraine
- Contributor to Resource:
- Rink, Hillery
- Publisher:
- Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia State University Library
- Date of Original:
- 2012-12-11
- Subject:
- Lesbian activists
Lesbian feminism
Sexual minorities--Political activity
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001
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, New York County, New York, 40.7142691, -74.0059729 - Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
interviews - Type:
- Sound
- Format:
- audio/mpeg
- 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 in 1968, she came to Atlanta and, together with other feminists, founded the Atlanta Lesbian Feminist Alliance (ALFA), which lasted from 1972 until 1994, and later DARII (Dykes for the Second American Revolution). She trained at the People’s College of Law in L.A. from 1976 to 1979 and went on to work with the National Jury Project, Georgia Legal Services, the EEOC in New York City (from October 1999 until January 2004), and Georgia’s Lambda Legal Education and Defense Fund from 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 second of her two interviews for the Gender and Sexuality Oral History Project, Lorraine Fontana discusses her attempts to succeed in male-dominated trade industries and the challenges she faced, her civil rights-focused legal career, and her experience working in World Trade Center 7 on the day of the September 11 attacks in New York, N.Y. - Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/lgbtq/id/4774
- IIIF manifest:
- https://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/iiif/2/lgbtq:4774/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, December 11, 2012, Gender and Sexuality Oral History Project, Archives for Gender and Sexuality. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University.
- Extent:
- 01:59:34
- 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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