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Women’s music legend Alix Dobkin for the first time chronicles her rise to fame as the first artist to record an openly lesbian record album in 1973. Her story, however, opens much earlier in post-war New York City where, growing up in a Communist family, she watches Jackie Robinson steal home, rubs elbows with radical left celebrities like Paul Robeson, and comes of age under the watchful eye of the FBI. Dobkin herself joins the Party at the height of the McCarthy witch hunts and offers readers a first-hand glimpse of daily life as a teenager living under government surveillance. |
Thanks to everyone for your continued support: We had a very successful "Last Bookstore Standing" fundraiser. Everyone had a great time and we raised over $3500. That gives the bookstore some breathing room. We are cautiously optimistic for our survival through the spring and summer of 2010! All of this is possible because of a fabulous LGBT community that is realizing that Common Language is not just a retail store, but a community asset. Thank you! Remember, "Buy Local, or Bye-Bye Local" |
