Barbara Love

Barbara Joan Love (February 27, 1937 – November 13, 2022) was an American feminist writer and the editor of Feminists who Changed America, 1963–1975. With the National Organization for Women, Love organized and participated in demonstrations, and she also worked within the organization to improve its acceptance of lesbian feminists. She helped to found consciousness-raising groups for lesbian feminists and was active in the gay liberation movement.

Barbara Love
Born
Barbara Joan Love

(1937-02-27)February 27, 1937
Ridgewood, New Jersey, U.S.
DiedNovember 13, 2022(2022-11-13) (aged 85)
New York City, U.S.
Occupations
  • Writer
  • activist
SpouseDonna Smith • 2018

With fellow feminist Sidney Abbott, she co-authored Sappho Was a Right-on Woman: A Liberated View of Lesbianism, which she hoped would lead to greater awareness of society's oppression of women and lesbians. She also helped in the presentation to the American Psychiatric Association which led to the removal of homosexuality from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.

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