THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT
Barbara Grier
November 4, 1933 – November 10, 2011
“We’re getting to live our lives exactly as we want to and make a living.”
Groundbreaking lesbian publisher, activist, archivist. Wrote for The Ladder from its inception until it shut down in 1972. The Ladder, considered the first lesbian magazine in the U.S., published monthly. Founder of Naiad Press along with Donna McBride, Anyda Marchant and Muriel Crawford, January 1973. It was devoted exclusively to lesbian literature.
More About Barbara:
- Obituary, The New York Times
- Remembering Barbara Grier, by Carolyn Gage
- Indomitable: The Life of Barbara Grier, by Joanne Passet
- Barbara Grier, Daughters of Bilitis Video Project, Lesbian Herstory Archives.
- Barbara Grier and Donna McBride Naiad Press Collection, James C. Hormel Gay and Lesbian Center at the San Francisco Public Library.
- Wikipedia
- Cited in Barbara Love’s book, Feminists Who Changed America 1963-1975, page 18