The Family Tree Celebrates Women's History Month

The Family Tree is proud to celebrate Women?s History Month by profiling influential women in LGBT history each week during the month of March.? Profiles will be included in each week?s eNotes and are also featured on our website.

Barbara Gittings

Barbara Gittings was a lesbian and gay rights Pioneer. She helped organize gay rights demonstrations in front of the White House and in front of Independence Hall in Philadelphia in 1965 to protest federal employment discrimination.

She was awarded a lifetime membership in the American Library Association, and the ALA named an annual award for the best gay or lesbian novel the The Barbara Gittings Award. The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) also named an activist award for her. At her memorial service, Matt Foreman, the executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force said, ?What do we owe Barbara? Everything.?

Gertrude Ma Rainey

Gertrude Ma Rainey was known as the Mother of the Blues. Even though she was married to Pa Rainey, Ma Rainey did nothing to hide her love of women. In 1928, she recorded ?Prove it on Me Blues,? which makes no secret of her relationships with women.

In 2004, her song ?See See Rider Blues? (1925) was inducted in the Grammy Hall of Fame, and was included by the National Recording Preservation Board in the Library of Congress? National Recording Registry in 2004. The board selects voices in an annual basis that are ?culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.?

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