9/3/2012 This Way Out

A trailblazing rabble-rousing activist, JEANNE CORDOVA is one of the founders of the West Coast LGBTQ movement. She sat down recently with "This Way Out's" STEVE PRIDE in LOS ANGELES to discuss her new book, "WHEN WE WERE OUTLAWS: A MEMOIR OF LOVE & REVOLUTION" [Spinster Ink, in paperback from Bella Books]. Cordova chronicles some of her adventures in the early 1970s, including a stint as a reporter and columnist with the progressive "L.A. Free Press"; publishing the nationally influential "Lesbian Tide"; and picketing what was then called the Los Angeles Gay Community Services Center after the board fired 16 "dissident" lesbian-feminist staffers for trying to introduce feminist principles and practices at the Center  [www.jeannecordova.com]