THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT
Sidney Afton Abbott
July 11, 1937 – April 15, 2015
“Women’s Rights are Human Rights.”
Lesbian activist and author. Co-authored Sappho Was a Right-on Woman: A Liberated View of Lesbianism with Barbara Love. Vocal and active member of the National Organization for Women. Founding member of the board of directors of the National Gay Task Force (now known as the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force). Helped found Lavender Menace.
Photo 1. Sidney honors Kate Millett, 1998. Photo 2. 1971.
More About Sidney:
- Lesbian Activist Icon Remembered by Rita Mae Brown, Barbara Love, In recognition of New Yorkers who didn’t get the obituary they deserved, by Parker Richards, March 2016
- Sidney Abbott’s Obituary
- Nancy Dean interviews Sidney Abbott 2009, North Fork Women For Women Fund
- The Veteran Feminists of America Honor Sidney Abbott
- Veteran Feminists of America Events
- A conversation with Sidney Abbott filmed and interviewed by Linda Kavars, July 1995
- Lane, Bettye , 1930-2012, “Sidney Abbott speaks at lesbian workshop at NOW conference in Washington, D.C. 1973″ Catching the Wave
- Smith College Libraries
- Daughters of Bilitis, notes about organization’s history, Sidney Abbott and Del Martin, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute
- “Lesbian Nation,” Lesbian Herstory Archives Audio Visual Collections
- Gay Lib Gives Progress Report, The Pittsburgh Press, February 1, 1974
- Interview with Sidney Abbott and Barbara Love, The Ladder, 1972
- Cited in Barbara Love’s book, Feminists Who Changed America, page 1
