THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT
Lindsy Van Gelder
“Discrimination against women was the air that we breathed….I came very much to feminism through my being a reporter.”
Reporter, Author, Journalist, Educator. One of the Founders of Media Women. Former writer for Ms. Magazine and chief writer for Allure. Contributed to numerous magazines and newspapers, including the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Town & Country, New York, the New York University Alumni Magazine, the Columbia Journalism Review, Rolling Stone, and the Nation. Co-authored two prize-winning queer-themed books, Are You Two…Together? and The Girls Next Door.
Interviewed by Judy Waxman, Oral Historian, October 2025
More About Lindsy:
- “Dear Ms.: A Revolution in Print,” Official Trailer, HBO. Through the lens of three of the magazine’s most iconic covers, filmmakers Salima Koroma, Alice Gu and Cecilia Aldarondo each tackle Ms.’ deep and complicated history from a different point of view.
- Select articles by Lindsy Van Gelder
- Cited in Barbara Love’s book, Feminists Who Changed America 1963-1975, page 471