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Play, download and edit the free video L022A Fran Winant reads her poem Looking at Women watermarked segment. LFL Sunday Event 1973 - Image of Women In Media..

Poet, painter, and activist Fran Winant was one of the early participants in the Stonewall-inspired gay rights movement of the 1970s. Through her poetry and visual art, she helped define the role and sensibility of lesbians in the contexts of gay liberation and radical feminism, especially during the 1970s and early 1980s.

One of the founders of the Gay Liberation Front in 1969, Winant embraced the early gay liberation movement. Recognizing the need for lesbians to shape their own identities, Winant joined Radical Lesbians when it split off from the Gay Liberation Front in 1970, and helped organize the first all-women's dances and poetry readings in New York.

In the early 1970s, Winant and her then-partner Judy Grepperd founded Violet Press in order to publish Winant's poetry, as well as that of others. Among the volumes of Winant's poetry published by Violet Press are Looking at Women: Poems (1971), Dyke Jacket (1976), and Goddess of Lesbian Dreams (1980). The Press also published Winant's and Grepperd's anthology of lesbian poetry, We Are All Lesbians (1980).

This segment was part of a Lesbian Feminist Liberation Sunday Event and was taped at the GAA Firehouse on Wooster Street in New York City in 1973.

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