THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT
Barbara Love
“Feminist Troublemaker”
Lesbian Rights Activist. Author and Editor. Organizer. Consciousness-Raiser. Policy Changer. Competitive Swimmer. National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. PFLAG (Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays). Board of Veteran Feminists of America. Radicalesbians. Matriarchists. NOW.
Interviewed by Laura Petrella, 2009




Photos 1 and 2. Barbara Love. Photos 3 and 4. Sappho was a Right-on Woman: A Liberated View of Lesbianism. Sidney Abbott; Barbara Love (1977). Stein and Day.
More About Barbara:
- There At the Dawning: Memories of a Lesbian Feminist, by Barbara Love, 2021
- Barbara Love, Generations of Pride at Theater for the New City, June 24, 2019, New York:
- Barbara Love on C-SPAN, “NOW Celebrates its 50th Anniversary,” June 24, 2016, Washington DC
- Eleanor Pam, Barbara Love and Suzanne Braun Levine on Second wave feminism, October 12, 2013
- Jacqui Ceballos introducing Barbara Love – Celebrating Feminists Who Changed America 1963-1975 – 2007
- Feminists Who Changed America by Barbara Love
- VFA Fabulous Feminist Biography
- Wikipedia
- The Forgotten Feminists Museum
- Voices of Feminism – Interview by Kelly Anderson 2008 -Sophia Smith Collection
- The Swimmer – a film by Liza Béar 2017
- Barbara Love interviews by Sidney Abbott in 1993. The Tully-Crenshaw Feminist Oral History Project
- A conversation with Barbara Love, co-author with Sidney Abbott of “Sappho Was a Right On Woman: A Liberated View of Lesbianism,” 1974