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My Sister’s Keeper

Started by Shana A, February 03, 2009, 09:42:08 PM

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Shana A

February 03, 2009, 09:42:08 PM
My Sister's Keeper

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/01/fashion/01womyn.html?_r=2&ref=style

By SARAH KERSHAW
Published: January 30, 2009

THEY called it a lesbian paradise, the pioneering women who made their way to St. Augustine, Fla., in the 1970s to live together in cottages on the beach. Finding one another in the fever of the gay rights and women's liberation movements, they built a matriarchal community, where no men were allowed, where even a male infant brought by visitors was cause for debate.

PURPOSE "I came here because I wanted to be in nature, and I wanted to have lesbian neighbors," said Emily Greene at Alapine.

Emily Greene was one of those pioneers, and at 62 she still chooses to live in a separate lesbian world. She and 19 other women have built homes on 300 rural acres in northeast Alabama, where the founders of the Florida community, the Pagoda, relocated in 1997.
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde
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