Something Special, a Lesbian Venture 
This site is because of the far-future thinking of  two wimmin Jae and Chris, thank you

A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ..
a past juicy enough that she's
looking forward to retelling it
in her old age.... Maya Angelou

DO YOU KNOW THIS WOMON?

Alix Dobkin  Considered by many wimmin to be the Mother of Modern-Day Lesbian Music, Alix has a devoted audience, has been called a "womyn's music legend" by Spin Magazine, "pithy" by The Village Voice, "Biting . . . inventive . . . imaginative" by New Age Journal, "uncompromising" in the New York Times Magazine, and "a troublemaker" by the FBI.

Alix is a member of the OLOC (Old Lesbians Organizing for Change) Steering Committee, and her memoirs will be published in the summer of 2010 by Alyson Books. She loves living in New York's Hudson Valley.

Discography

 Albums

• Lavender Jane Loves Women (1973)
• Living with Lesbians (1975)
• XX Alix (1980)
• These Women (1986)
• Yahoo Australia! Live from Sydney (1990)
• Love & Politics (compilation, 1992)
• Living with Lavender Jane (CD re-release of first two albums, 1998)

 Bibliography

• Alix Dobkin's Adventures In Women's Music
• (Not Just A Songbook) (1978)

 NOW YOU KNOW THIS WOMON !  AREN'T YOU PROUD TO BE A LESBIAN !

Alix Dobkin, raised in Philadelphia,  was a guitar-teenager in the 1950's. Immediately after graduating from the Tyler School of Fine Arts, Alix headed east to NYC's world-famous Gaslight Cafe, and from that rich, heady, heart of Greenwich Village  launched her full-time, professional folk singing career in the early '60's.

Focusing during the first decade on an international and contemporary/ protest repertory, she came out as a lesbian in 1972 and turned to writing and singing for women in general and to building Lesbian Culture in particular.

Over the last 25 years, Dobkin has traveled to hundreds of women's communities in the USA and abroad. 

SUGARLOAF WIMMIN'S VILLAGE

THE SUGARLOAF WIMMIN'S VILLAGE AT SUGARLOAF KEY:Established in the early 70's by Barbara Deming (radical activist, journalist, writer, poet) and her partner, Jane Verlaine Gapen (artist, poet, radical activist, defender of wimmin).

The Village grew in the early 80's when Blue Lunden & Sky Vanderlinde joined Barbara, Jane and the other wimmin who lived there then. 

Barbara died of ovarian cancer in 1984, leaving the property to Jane.  Jane died of heart disease in 1995, leaving the property to Blue. 

When Blue died in 1999 she created, with the aid of Jae Haggard and others, the Sugarloaf Women's Land Trust, so that now the property is for all lesbians.  By this time the property had grown from the original 2  houses and a guest cottage to 4 houses, 2 guest cottages, a campground and 3 wooded lots.

We will be giving more and more information on the Sugarloaf Wimmin's Village in Sugarloaf Keys, Florida as time passes. This article is only the beginning. Included here are some of the pictures of the land in its present condition, thanks to Bonnie.

You can be in touch with Bonnie for additional information at: bonnienetherton@mac.com     sugarloafwlt@gmail.com 

Sugarloaf Wimmin's Village is a Land Trust no one owns the land or the houses.

 Flowers of Sugarloaf's Wimmins Village in Sugarloaf Key, Fla.s photos by Bonnie N.

SWIFTWATERS WOMANSPACE

SWIFTWATERS: Established in the late 70's by Joyce, now run by Pat, is a natural mountain retreat for wimmin. A safe and private place founded in 1979 for wimmin in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Georgia. Swiftwaters has some hills, some woods, and some shady meadow, all surrounded by the fast moving headwaters of the Etowah River.

SWIFTWATERS holds  Single Womon's  Weekends .   www.swiftwaters.com