{"id":2356,"date":"2021-12-12T23:09:56","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T04:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/?p=2356"},"modified":"2021-12-13T19:06:18","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T00:06:18","slug":"the-lesbian-tide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/delgado\/the-lesbian-tide\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lesbian Tide"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Lesbian Tide<\/em>, a feminist periodical that remained in circulation from 1971 until 1980, began as a bulletin written by the Los Angeles chapter of the prominent lesbian rights organization Daughters of Bilitis and was initially entitled the LA DOB Newsletter<\/em> (Clendinen and Nagourney 164). After expanding beyond Los Angeles and becoming the first ever national lesbian periodical (as well as the first American magazine with a title including the word \u201clesbian\u201d), the staff organized the West Coast Lesbian Conference in 1973 (Clendinen and Nagourney 164).<\/p>\n

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D. Cartier\u2019s poetry, featured in the inaugural issue of The Lesbian Tide<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

The periodical\u2019s inaugural issue featured a wide range of content, including opinion pieces, \u201cGay Community News,\u201d Daughters of Bilitis monthly activities, and artwork. Notably, two poems by \u201cD. Cartier\u201d accompany a black-and-white romantic drawing of two women captioned with a Sappho fragment:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe shall enjoy it . . . as for him who finds fault, may stillness and sorrow take him.\u201d<\/p>\n

The two poems by D. Cartier, entitled \u201cFor You Only\u201d and \u201cNon-Dichotomy,\u201d both contain themes of loss. \u201cFor You Only\u201d laments a lost love, its opening lines reading, \u201cNothing in my life has been easier than loving you \/ Nothing will be harder than forgetting\u201d (Cartier 12).\u00a0 \u201cNon-Dichotomy\u201d is less mournful, expressing gratitude for a past relationship despite sorrow that it has ended: \u201cI\u2019ll remember you, who opened up a world for me \/ And showed me . . .\u00a0 LOVING\u00a0 . . . \/ Doesn\u2019t need any labels\u201d (Cartier 12). The effect of placing these two poems together on a page with the illustration of two women in a passionate embrace creates a strong sense of the intensity of the romantic love that can exist between women. Sappho\u2019s fragment ties all elements of this page together\u2014that despite the heartbreak, trials, and tribulations that will exist amongst any lovers, love between women can be as beautiful and powerful as ever.<\/p>\n

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A snapshot of the \u201cDear Sappho\u201d column – from Vol. 1 Issue 8 of The Lesbian Tide<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

As The Lesbian Tide<\/em> continued to circulate throughout the 1970s, the editors developed an advice column entitled \u201cDear Sappho.\u201d Readers could write with queries, worries, or musings addressed to \u201cIsle of Lesbos, 1124 \u00bd North Ogden, Los Angeles\u201d and receive a response from \u201cSappho,\u201d an editor of the magazine. Topics ranged from relationship issues to sexual queries to worries about coming out. \u201cDear Sappho\u201d continued as a way for editors of the periodical to connect with their audience until 1980, when The Lesbian Tide ceased publication due to financial struggles.<\/p>\n

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The April 1973 issue of The Lesbian Tide<\/em>, featuring a quote from Rita Mae Brown\u2019s \u201cSappho\u2019s Reply\u201d on the cover page.<\/p><\/div>\n

Works Cited:<\/p>\n

Clendinen, Dudley, and Adam Nagourney. Out For Good: The Struggle to Build a Gay Rights Movement in America.<\/em> Simon & Schuster, 2016, p. 164.<\/p>\n

Cartier. \u201cFor You Only.\u201d The Lesbian Tide<\/em>, vol. 1, no. 1, Tide Publications, Aug. 1971, p. 12, https:\/\/jstor.org\/stable\/community.28039236.<\/p>\n

Cartier. \u201cNon-Dichotomy.\u201d The Lesbian Tide<\/em>, vol. 1, no. 1, Tide Publications, Aug. 1971, p. 12, https:\/\/jstor.org\/stable\/community.28039236.<\/p>\n

Deeni, et al. \u201cThe Lesbian Tide.\u201d The Lesbian Tide<\/em>, vol. 1, no. 1, Tide Publications, Aug. 1971, https:\/\/jstor.org\/stable\/community.28039236.<\/p>\n

Julie Lee, et al. \u201cThe Lesbian Tide.\u201d The Lesbian Tide<\/em>, vol. 1, no. 8, Tide Publications, Mar. 1972, p. 9, https:\/\/jstor.org\/stable\/community.28039242.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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