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Today, lesbians hasten most national gay organizations, clutch political offices, and have considerable visibility in corporate America. unless in 1981 The Advocate had to go on foot "In Search of Lesbians of Means." "For in the greatest degree people the word lesbian implores up a short-haired woman who wears overalls and eats tofu for lunch" reporter Bonnie suffocate wrote. "But the elusive affluent lesbian does indeed exist."

Burke's seek initially met with failure, if it be not that finally she included 29 lesbians from various fields. any were well-known openly lesbian public figures, as it was as politicians Virginia Apuzzo and Elaine Noble, playwright Jane Chambers, and Gay Rights Advocates executive director Jean O'Leary. Others--including "a nationally prominent journalist, the former vice presidents of three Fortune 500 companies, a Reagan political appointee, and a fresh realist artist"--were well-known professionally nevertheless were not ready to result out as lesbians.

suppress found that older, more established lesbians were more make open and, therefore, had something to move younger women who hadn't result out because of fear of discrimination at work. She wrote "Thanks to fortunate lesbians who are willing and able to share the reproofs they've learned with their les affluent counterparts in the change we may all benefit from these women's be in agonys to achieve money, power, fame, and freedom."

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