Marion Abdullah is a longtime Bay Area activist. The fortunate
organizations that have her on their side include the Asian Pacific Lesbian
Network, East Bay Pride, Women's Building, PFLAG, New Leaf Outreach to Elders,
Oakland Mardi Gras, AIDS and Breast Cancer. Since joining OLOC (Old Lesbians
Organizing for Change), Marion has been an organizer of their yearly Conference
for Elders. Also, she is active in ensuring an elder presence at “Creating
Change”, a national LGBT conference.
Dottie Fowler is a founding member of Women at the Helm, Lavender
Seniors and is a board member for Operation Concern and New Leaf Services for
Our Community and volunteer project director of Lavender Seniors. Dottie has
been active in the gay community since the 1970’s and has been in the Bay Area
since 1966, when she was the Associate Production Director for the American
Conservatory Theatre. She holds a U.S. Coast Guard Masters license for 100 ton
offshore vessels.
Barbara Konecny is a longtime community activist. With great
assistance by her life partner Barbara Jue, she founded WOFF (Women Over Fifty
and their Friends). It is her great passion to nourish this social organization
which has created a vibrant older lesbian community in the East Bay with over
100 members. She has been involved with many organizations including Lavender
Seniors and Lighthouse for Gays and Lesbians. Also, Barbara has organized
demonstrations against the Boy Scouts and the public school system in the East
Bay.
Alice Molloy and Carol Wilson are pioneers in the women’s
movement, founding one of the first women’s bookstores in 1971. They continued
to serve the women’s community at A Woman’s Place and since 1983 at Mama Bears
in Oakland. For 30 years, uninterrupted, they have created “a space for women
to breathe, to conspire.” Many entertainers performed at Mama Bears, including
Pat Bond. In 2003, Alice and Carol plan to begin their well earned retirement.
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Pat Rutherford, a proud member of the Oneida Tribe, one of the
Iroquois Six Nations, a certified Alcohol & Drug counselor, a long-time
lesbian activist, and leader of workshops on racism and ageism.
Rusty Brown, a life-long activist who "hoodwinked" the
government as an underground dyke during her 31 year career in the Navy, a
political activist who testified at the San Francisco Commission On Aging
hearing in 1980 for support of services for aging, lesbians and gay seniors and
a steadfast member of GLOE's Advisory Board.
Mary Bell Wilson, a long-time mentor, supporter and fighter in the
gay community, an artist, a teacher of the arts and a fundraiser for women's
projects.
Natalie Zarchin, a long-time political activist who was active in
interracial and interfaith groups in L.A., a community organizer and a talented
potter.
Pat Durham, Louise Gilbert, Jenny
MacHarg, Natalie Lando and Val Souza
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Jeanne Adleman, a lifelong social/political activist who worked
with the Women's Switchboard, the Women's Building, the 1987 and 1989 Old
Lesbian Conferences, who served on the GLOE Advisory Board and co-edited the
book Racism in the lives of Women.
T. Nelson Gilbert, an activist and successful role model for African American
lesbian writers and entrepreneurs, a counselor and Buddhist leader for young
women and the Director of the annual Woman in the Moon poetry contests for gays
and lesbians.
Nancy J. Lee, a life long lesbian who always stood up for gay
rights whenever she lived, an artist, and avid nature lover and horticulturist,
who organized the local Food Bank, grew vegetables for the local Senior Center
and is known in Guerneville as the unofficial head of "Keep Guerneville
Beautiful".
Mary Flick, an active member in the Peace Movement, NOW,
Unitarian Church, GLOE and OLOC and a performance artist with Options for Women
Over Forty Experimental Theater and Mothertongue Feminist Theater Collective.
Vera Martin, Social Activist with NAACP, Conexus, Black Gay and
Lesbian Leadership Forum, OLOC and a union organizer.
Charlotte Ostergren, the first woman commissioner of the gay softball
league, who worked in the 70's for the Tavern Guild on charity and political
auctions and wrote the first grant for Operation Concern.
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