Last Updated: 04 Oct, 2024 | Views: 200
Age: 67
Profession: Writer
Other Profession(s): Journalist, Activist, Publisher
Famous For: Founder of The Lesbian Tide
Higher Education: University of California
Jeanne Cordova was an incredible person who made notable contributions as a writer, journalist, and most importantly a Social activist. She was a true person who could say she lived for a purpose and she knew it all along. She was from a catholic background but left the church when she became aware of her sexuality and her interest and was dissatisfied with the church. This incident clearly shows her strong will power and determination to do things. She founded different organizations for lesbian welfare and to support LGBTQ+ community all her life. Until her death and her last written thing in the world (A Letter About Dying, To My Lesbian Communities) She donated $2 million as a Legacy Gift to the community.
Her Magnificent Career
• She Wrote 3 books and multiple anthologies and other pieces like Columns and feature news.
• Her Books are When we were Outlaws; A memoir of love and Revolution (2011), Kicking the Habit: A Lesbian Nun Story (1990), Sexism: It’s a nasty affair (1974).
• She had been part of Multiple Anthologies mostly about feminism, LGBTQ+ and related topics.
• She had written many columns and special news stories in her career as a journalist and shown mirror to the society.
Her Achievements
• She got recognition in the age of 30 by becoming fist lesbian to appear in “Who’s Who in America”
• She also received the Rainbow Key Award for lifetime community service by the city of West Hollywood.
• In 2009 she was honored with the Morris Knight Lifetime achievement award by Christopher street west.
• Recently, google doodle honored her by creating doodle about her contribution as pioneering leader of LGBTQ+ rights movement on June 6th 2024
Some Better Known Facts About Her
• She said “It’s the job of the young to push the societal envelope” this line says more than it reads.
• She had a life partner Lynn Harris Ballen, with whom she spent 26 beautiful years of her life.
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