![]() ![]() While The Furies lasted only a year-and Brown’s connection to the group was even shorter than that-it was one of the most important groups in the era’s lesbian separatist movement.īetween 19, Brown was romantically involved with Martina Navratilova, and she drew on the experience for her 1984 novel Sudden Death, a romantic comedy set in the world of women’s tennis in which a principal plot point is whether the tennis player character will publicly acknowledge her lesbianism. In 1971, Brown was a founding member of The Furies Collective, a Washington, DC separatist lesbian community. She found that gay rights groups were largely male-dominated and not interested in the specific problems of lesbians, and many women’s rights groups avoided gay and lesbian issues, seeing them as a liability that would delay progress toward gender equality. Her primary interest was lesbian rights, and there weren’t many groups focusing on that area at the time. ![]() In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Brown worked with a variety of political groups, usually briefly. Brown would later go on to earn doctoral degrees in literature and political science. After a few years of working various jobs to pay for class, she received a degree in classics and English from New York University. She continued her studies at a local community college before hitchhiking to New York. Reports vary on the precise cause-some say it was her involvement in the civil rights movement it might have been her open declaration of lesbianism. Brown began her literary career in the 1970s as one of the first lesbian authors to find mainstream success more recently, she has distanced herself from the label “lesbian author” and become a popular writer of cozy mystery novels.īrown began her college studies in 1962 at the University of Florida, which was at the time a racially segregated university. On November 28, 1944, Rita Mae Brown was born. ![]()
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