Ms. Hollibaugh was a community organizer and author, perhaps best known for her 2000 book, “My Dangerous Desires: A Queer Girl Dreaming Her Way Home.” She was a self-educated leading intellectual in the LGBTQ, feminist, sexual liberation, and economic justice movements, friends and colleagues noted.
Her Bay Area connection occurred in the mid- to late-1970s and early 1980s. She was a co-founder of the San Francisco Lesbian and Gay History Project in 1978. In 1985, people held a public meeting in San Francisco that included members of the history project. Members of that group, along with the San Francisco Gay and Lesbian Periodical Archives, grew into the GLBT Historical Society, according to the society’s website. […]
Click here to read the full piece. This story was originally published by Bay Area Reporter on November 15, 2023.
