Jacquie Bishop (born October 8, 1965)

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Jacquie Bishop is a native New Yorker, Boston-based writer and founding member of MABA, the Mass Black LGBT Alliance. She now lives in Dorchester with her partner Kelley Ready.

Jacquie Bishop and Kelley Ready have been together since 1995. "I understand the euphoria that people are feeling [to get married], and I've been involved in gay politics long enough to fully appreciate what's happening right now, but I just don't need to be running out and getting married," said Bishop.


Jacquie Bishop, 1988, by Robert Giard (http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/dl_crosscollex/brbldl_getrec.asp?fld=img&id=1123911)

American photographer Robert Giard is renowned for his portraits of American poets and writers; his particular focus was on gay and lesbian writers. Some of his photographs of the American gay and lesbian literary community appear in his groundbreaking book Particular Voices: Portraits of Gay and Lesbian Writers, published by MIT Press in 1997. Giard’s stated mission was to define the literary history and cultural identity of gays and lesbians for the mainstream of American society, which perceived them as disparate, marginal individuals possessing neither. In all, he photographed more than 600 writers. (http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/digitallibrary/giard.html)

Further Readings:

A Woman Like That : Lesbian and Bisexual Writers Tell Their Coming Out Stories by Joan Larkin
Paperback: 326 pages
Publisher: Perennial / Harper Collins (October 24, 2000)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0380802473
ISBN-13: 978-0380802470
Amazon: A Woman Like That : Lesbian and Bisexual Writers Tell Their Coming Out Stories

The act of "coming out" has the power to transform every aspect of a woman's life: family, friendships, career, sexuality, spirituality. An essential element of self-realization, it is the unabashed acceptance of one's "outlaw" standing in a predominantly heterosexual world.

These accounts -- sometimes heart-wrenching, often exhilarating -- encompass a wide breadth of backgrounds and experiences. From a teenager institutionalized for her passion for women to the mother who must come out to her young sons at the risk of losing them -- from the cautious academic to the raucous liberated femme -- each woman represented here tells of forging a unique path toward the difficult but emancipating recognition of herself. Extending from the 1940s to the present day, these intensely personal stories in turn reflect a unique history of the changing social mores that affected each woman's ability to determine the shape of her own life. Together they form an ornate tapestry of lesbian and bisexual experience in the United States over the past half-century.

More Particular Voices at my website: http://www.elisarolle.com/, My Ramblings/Particular Voices