Admission Accomplished: The "Lesbian Nation" Years (1970-75)

Jill Johnston has been acknowledged as one of the most vital, original thinkers of her time. As vanguard feminist, she was at the forefront of a movement that changed the way we think about gender & sexuality. These essays, many of which appeared in her books "Lesbian Nation" & "Gullibles Travels," break with convention & tackle social issues as current today as when they were written: coming out & "outing" public icons; gay marriage & monogamy; solidarity & betrayal between gay men & lesbians, & between straight feminists & lesbians; the men's movement & misogyny. Johnston was the first writer to come out in the mass media, & the only one to sustain this kind of exposure over a revolutionary span of time.