Shortly thereafter I became a core organizer for two national lesbian conferences, one of which re-directed my path to create The Lesbian Tide news magazine, a national paper of record, as the historians say, for the lesbian feminist generation.
On October 3, 1970, a day I celebrate as my political birthday, I found Her in a small DOB (Daughters of Bilitis) meeting.
“From the age of 18 to 21, I painfully looked everywhere for Lesbian Nation. ”Ĭórdova also published one final piece of writing titled “ A Letter About Dying, to My LGBT Communities ,” in which she reflected on her lifelong devotion to the fight for “freedom and dignity for lesbians.” Reflecting on her legacy and her monumental personal donation, Cordova recalled the earnest beginnings of her lesbian feminist activism:
Córdova Fund “ to support organizations focusing on movement building, human rights and journalism with a specific focus on Latina lesbians from South and Latin America and South African women - lesbians, feminists, lesbian feminists, butch and masculine gender-nonconforming communities. Shortly before she passed away in 2016, Córdova donated $2 million to the Astraea Lesbian Foundation to establish The Jeanne R. I felt it was more political than that really.”įor Córdova, activism was more than a career, it was something closer to a vocation or spiritual calling. As Córdova would later explain : “I didn’t want my lesbianism to be just a matter of sexuality. According to the Pratt Institute’s archives, she was also a founding member of many other gay rights organizations, including the Gay and Lesbian Caucus of the Democratic Party and the Los Angeles Connexxus Women’s Center/ Centro de Mujeres, and she served as a delegate at the first National Women’s Conference in 1977. She was a key organizer of the first national lesbian publication, The Lesbian Tide, which began publication in 1970 the first National Lesbian Conference in 1973 and the first convention of the National Lesbian Feminist Organization in 1978.
Born in 1948, Chicana feminist activist Jeanne Córdova devoted her life to advocating for lesbians and women of color in the United States.
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