Robin    Stevens
Red Dora's Bearded Lady Cafe in San Francisco is as close to home as Generation X lesbians get. This is where the postmodern meets the feminist, where Pop Tarts mingle with pesto eggs, and the cultural influences are as likely Charlie's Angels and Joan Didion as Audre Lorde and Susie Bright.,Red Dora's is also a performance space where writers and humorists of all genders have found enthusiastic audiences of like-minded girlfriends raised on feminism, television and bad music. These girlfriends are angry enough to change the world and smart enough to have fun in the meantime...,"Girlfriend Number One rips the covers off lesbian chic to reveal unchecked dyke reality..." - Susie Bright,"Until I read Girlfriend Number One I didn't know I'd ever been on a lesbian date - honest honest honest!!!" - Jane DeLynn,Robin Stevens is the former editor of ,Out/Look,, the national lesbian and gay quarterly. Her articles appear in ,Out, magazine, ,Ten Percent,, and the ,San Francisco Bay Guardian,. She lives in San Francisco.
GLBT,Queer,Nonfiction,LGBT,Writing,Essays
Girlfriend Number One: Lesbian Life in the 90s