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Aug Sep. 1971, Vol. 15 No. 11-12 THE LABBER THE LADDER, published by Lesbians and directed to ALL women seeking full human dignity, had its beginning in 1956. It was then the - l y VOLUME 15 No. 11 and 12 THE publication in the U.S. It is now the only women s magazine openly supporting AUGUST/SEPTEMBER, 1971 Lesbians, a forceful minority within the women’s liberation movement. LADDER Initially THE LADDER’S goal was limited to heterosexual women, that is. fuU second^ilass citizenship as a whole were as yet unaware of their oppression. The Lesbian knew. And she wondered silently when her sisters would realize that they too share many of Lesbian’s handicaps, those that pertained to being a woman. THE LADDER STAFF Editor .................................................................................................. Gene Damon THE LADDER’S purpose today is to raise all women to L T w Director of Promotion.........................................................................Laporte all of the rights and responsibüitics this entails; to include ALL women, whether Production Editor .......................................................................Hope Thompson Lesbian or heterosexual. Circulation M anager.............................. ...................r ‘ ' V-’ ¡i ‘ ' Production Assistants ................................................Ly" CoUms, Kim Stabinski, OCCUPATIONS have no sex and must be opened to all qualified persons Jan Watson, King Kelly, Ann Brady, for the benefit of all. Robin and Dana Jordan Staff Cartoonist..................................................................................... .. Künstler LIFE STYLES must be as numerous as human beings require for their Art C olum nist..................................................................................... .Jean Ixmise personal happiness and fulfillment. Cross Currents E d ito r................................................................. .. • • ^ 7?* Staff A rtis t...................................................................................Adele A. Chalelm ABILITY, AMBITION, TALENT - CONTENTS: THESE ARE HUMAN QUALITIES. Thank You For Asking, Editorial by Gene Damon ...........................................^ The Undefeatable Force Revisited by Rita Laporte ........................................... 5 THE LADDER, though written, edited, and circulated by volunteer labor, Mother Said Someone Called Here, Short Story by Mickie B urns............. 7 cannot survive without money. We Lesbians are perhaps more anxious than The Threat of Women by Lennox Strong .................................................. 14 16 other women to make our views known. We wish we could blanket the country Journeys in Art by Jean Louise.................................................................... 20 and the world with free copies. But stern reality tells us that, more important Book Reviews by Hope Thompson ........................................................... even than mass distribution, is the need to keep alive the only real Lesbum Conflict of Identity by Kane Kelley 24 j (Photograph by Lyn Jo n es)................................................................. magazine in the world. Therefore THE LADDER will no longer be sold at 27 newsstands. We will survive only if there are enough o f you OflEndings, Short Story by Dolores Klaieh ................................................ concerned with the rights and the liberation of ALL women to spend $7.50 a Poetry by Anne Zimova; F. Ellen Isaacs; ! Martha Shelley; and Patricia Hanen .............................................................^ year to subscribe. (Sample copies are always available at $1.25.)______________ _ Fejnale Sexual Alienation by Linda Phelps ....................................................... Cross C urrents..................................................................................................... ADVERTISING RATES Lifeblood, Short Story by Ellen C old................................................................. $45 Back C o v er............................tlOO Lesbiana by Gene Damon ................................................................................... Readers R espond................................................................................................ QuirtoPage' !!!!!'’.......... *25 Full Page ................................S 80 COVER: Winslow Homer: A Summer Night (Detafl). See: Journeys m Art. Repeated Advertisements at Reduced Rates Unless otherwise credited all illustrations are by staff artist Adele A. Chatelin BACK ISSUES AVAILABLE. WRITE FOR COST. and all cartoons are by staff cartoonist Ev Künstler. “Gumdrop Flowers and Marilyn” photo by June M. Smith (page 29) Published bi-monthly at Box 5025, Washington Station, Reno, Nevada, 89503. THIRD CLASS MAIL IS NOT FORWARDABLE. All rights reserved. No part o f this periodical may be reproduced without the When moving send us your old address and ZIP as well as new address and ZIP. written consent of THE LADDER. By RITA LAPORTE ^Itanli ^vou o u ^or asliin^ Editorial By GENE DAMON The Undefeatable Force Revisited A year has elapsed since I wrote a short and fundamental and that none of the Response to our two last requests for mail we receive day in and day out, editorial for the Augusl/September 1970 myriad other oppressions and exploitations expressing delight and joy on finding us help liis been enormous. Many women who issue of THE LADDER, the issue that will be effectively eliminated until women from women who have felt isolated from felt they could not supply any of the things inaugurated THE LADDER’S transition liberate themselves and each other. Every asked for have asked how they might help the world and hopelessly so, you would from a Lesbian rights to an all-women’s human being alive today was born of a slave mote easily understand our determination with THE LADDER. rights magazine. In rereading that editorial I and learned at an alarmingly early age that Through the good help of a Boston to continue publishing THE LADDER. Our was struck by my statement that men’s she was an inferior creature or that he was a D.O.B. woman and a Denver woman active only reward is knowing that for each issue ‘divide-and-conquer’ tactics are on the way .superior being. It is the fact that one learns safelv published, wc will reach a few in women’s liberation there, we have a out. 1 have a pollyanna way of soaring off this .so eariy that ha.s enabled humanity to women who will find in our pages their mailing or handout sheet which describes us on the wings of optimism despite daily Wind itself to llie oppression of over half hope for future freedom and happiness, or very well. This is suitable for giving out at evidence that would lead any realistic, the human race. It takes a black child a even more altruistically, their hope for the meetings or for posting on bulletin boards. rational mind to expect an early end to good deal longer to realize her oppression future lives of women like themselves who We would like volunteers who live near human life. Whatever has happened to hy virtue of her blackness and by that time might, in a better world, not have to suffer eolleges and universities or women’s libera­ men’s ‘divide-and-conquer’ tactics, what I her oppression by virtue of her s«-x is well tion groups to post this for us on the their pains. have picked up in a year of intensive buried in her umarnseioiis. It i.s therefore Give us your ideas. That helps us too. bulletin board. This can be done, of course, reading of women’s liberation literature is not surprising that many minority women Tell us what pleases and does not please in the case of institutions, without any that women themselves have taken over still see their race or color as their primary you. We are together, THE LADDER lives permission whatever; simply stick the things their own divi.sion. Hundreds of small oppression and are standing Iwhind their and progresses, or dies, because of you, up. Libraries and student unions of all groups proclaim that only they have the men. But these women are not feminists by schools have bulletin boards with ready and us. answer and all the rest of us women must my definition, however worthy their cause; access to the public. If you could do this do as they say or be cast out in disgrace. IS in other re.s[)eet.s. for us, write to us and tell us how many (After this Editorial was written and But, true to my unquenchable idealism, 1 Nor do 1 consider women w-ho blame you can use. There are other places where typed, we also received help from a am not discouraged. I have simply altered the System and think men eiiually oppres­ this could be handed out as a handbill, and woman in the Washington, D.C. area my timetable to allow room for this current sed to be feminists. 1’bese women are we leave this to your fertile imaginations. and another in far away Nova Scotia in phase of gettitig it all out in the open. victims of fuzzy Ihinking. The Sy .stern, after W'e arc in need of good short fiction. preparing material to use in publicizing 1 will set down what 1 consider to be all, is Ihe in.ile power structure and consists Very bluntly, we do not like to run less and promoting THE LADDER. In some of the divisive ideas espressed in Ihe of male people only. Ihese women are than top quality fiction, and until we get a every case the work and the cost was women’s liberation literature of the past afraid to label men the enemy. Perhaps tlicy 'substantial supply of usable short stories we absorbed by the helpers. We are prop
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