Leslie Cohen

The Audacity of a Kiss

Love, Art, and Liberation

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Produktbeschreibung

Leslie Cohen and her partner Beth Suskin served as models for the iconic sculpture “Gay Liberation.” In this evocative memoir, Cohen tells the story of a love that has lasted for over fifty years and recounts her quest to build gay and feminist oases in New York, including the groundbreaking women’s nightclub Sahara.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 265
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 153mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 445g
• ISBN-13: 9781978825116
• ISBN-10: 1978825110
• Artikelnr.: 61144130

Autorenporträt

LESLIE COHEN has been a museum curator, a nightclub owner and promoter, a limousine driver, and a lawyer, as well as a writer whose work has appeared in such publications as Curve and The New York Times Style Magazine. Now retired, she and her wife Beth live in Miami, Florida with their cat, Birdie.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations 
Author's Note 
Prologue 
Part I: Youth
1. Secrets and Dreams 
2. Confetti on New Year's Eve 
3. Touching God 
4. Awakening 
5. Crawling out of Darkness 
6. Acceptance
Part II: Freedom Calling
7. Les Femmes 
8. Water in the Desert 
9. Jagged, Dirty Thoughts 
10. An Antidote to Boredom 
11. Permission 
12. Virginia Slims 
Part III: A Posse of Outsiders
13. Lone Riders 
14. Style Gets Used Up 
15. Bashert: Fate, Meant to Be 
16. After the Desert 
Postscript 
Gay Liberation Timeline 
Acknowledgments
Notes