THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT
Doris “Blue” Lunden
September 8, 1936 – August 4, 1999
“We got together to make videotapes of lesbians because there weren’t any around.”
Advocate for lesbian, gay and women’s rights. Anti-nuclear activist. Co-founder of L.O.V.E. (Lesbians Organized for Video Experience), 1972. Co-founder, with Barbara Deming, of Sugar Loaf Women’s Village.
More About Blue:
- Obituary
- Some Ground to Stand On, a film by Joyce Warshow, co-produced and edited by Janet Baus, 1998, tells the life story of Blue Lunden, a working class lesbian activist whose odyssey of personal transformation parallels lesbians’ changing roles over the past 40 years.
- L.O.V.E. (Lesbians Organized for Video Experience) Tapes Collective. The L.O.V.E. Tapes Collective filmed lesbian feminist protests and events, particularly in and around New York City, from 1972-1977. The original members of the collective were Betty Brown, Delia Davis, Tracy Fitz, Barbara Jabaily, Doris (Blue) Lunden, and Denise Wong. The L.O.V.E. Group formed in 1972 at a meeting of Lesbian Feminist Liberation at the Gay Activist Alliance Firehouse to combat the invisibility of lesbians within the Gay Rights Movement and the Women’s Movement.
- Cited in Barbara Love’s book, Feminists Who Changed America 1963-1975, pages 287-288.
