The Audacity of a Kiss : : Love, Art, and Liberation / / Leslie Cohen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English
• VerfasserIn: Cohen, Leslie,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (265 p.) :; 39 b-w images
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; 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 --; 13. Lone Riders --; 14. Style Gets Used Up --; 15. Bashert: Fate, Meant to Be --; 16. After the Desert --; Postscript --; Gay Liberation Timeline --; Acknowledgments --; Notes --; About the Author
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781978825154; 9783110754001; 9783110753776; 9783110754179; 9783110753943; 9783110739138
• DOI: 10.36019/9781978825154
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Leslie Cohen.

Rendered in bronze, covered in white lacquer, two women sit together on a park bench in Greenwich Village. One of the women touches the thigh of her partner as they gaze into each other’s eyes. The two women are part of George Segal’s iconic sculpture “Gay Liberation,” but these powerful symbols were modeled on real people: Leslie Cohen and her partner (now wife) Beth Suskin. In this evocative memoir, Cohen tells the story of a love that has lasted for over fifty years. Transporting the reader to the pivotal time when brave gay women and men carved out spaces where they could live and love freely, she recounts both her personal struggles and the accomplishments she achieved as part of New York’s gay and feminist communities. Foremost among these was her 1976 cofounding of the groundbreaking women’s nightclub Sahara, which played host to such luminaries as Betty Friedan, Gloria Steinem, Pat Benatar, Ntozake Shange, Rita Mae Brown, Adrienne Rich, Patti Smith, Bella Abzug, and Jane Fonda. The Audacity of a Kiss is a moving and inspiring tale of how love, art, and solidarity can overcome oppression.