Amber L. Hollibaugh

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Amber L. Hollibaugh
Born(1946-06-20)June 20, 1946
Brooklyn, New York
, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Occupation(s)Writer, filmmaker and political activist
Notable work
  • The Heart of the Matter
     (1994)
  • Sexuality, Labor, and the New Trade Unionism (1999)
  • My Dangerous Desires: A Queer Girl Dreaming Her Way Home (2002)

Amber L. Hollibaugh (June 20, 1946 – October 20, 2023) was an American writer, filmmaker, activist and organizer concerned with working class, lesbian and

hooker, incest survivor, gypsy child, poor-white-trash, high femme dyke."[1]

Biography

Early life

Hollibaugh was the daughter of a

SNCC and United Farm Workers.[3]

Organizing Work

After moving to Canada in the late sixties, Hollibaugh was a leader in the

San Francisco Lesbian and Gay History Project.[5]

As discourse on sexuality in the feminist and lesbian feminist movements picked up in the late seventies, Hollibaugh was a significant voice in support of sexual liberation and sex work. Hollibaugh, alongside writer and organizer

Feminist Sex Wars. Hollibaugh has written on the marginalization she experienced afterwards as a result of being a former sex worker and her involvement in the sadomasochism community.[6]

Filmmaking and later professional work

Hollibaugh was the director and co-producer with Gini Reticker of

sexually transmitted diseases such as AIDS.[7][8][9] The film won the 1994 Sundance Film Festival Freedom of Expression Award and premiered to a national audience on PBS.[10][11]

In the 1990s, Hollibaugh argued that

American liberalism was in disarray, but was looking to the Left for guidance in how to reshape itself.[12] Stafford has analyzed her memoir My Dangerous Desires (2000) in terms of femme lesbian narratives.[13]

In 2002, Jenrose Fitzgerald discussed Hollibaugh and Singh's 1999 essay Sexuality, Labor, and the New

gay rights' concerns."[14]

In Hollibaugh's writings on sexuality, she has declared that "there is no human hope without the promise of ecstasy."[15]

Meryl Altman says that Hollibaugh was "a powerful organizing speaker, a very fine incisive writer and a brilliant

theorist."[16]

In 2012, Hollibaugh received the Vicki Sexual Freedom Award from the Woodhull Freedom Foundation.[17]

Hollibaugh was the Chief Officer of Elder & LBTI Women's Services at

bisexual, and transgender senior education, advocacy, and community organizing.[19]

Death

Amber L. Hollibaugh died from complications of diabetes in

Brooklyn, New York, on October 20, 2023, at the age of 77.[20]

Publications

Book

Articles and essays

Further reading

Notes

  1. ^ "Amber L. Hollibaugh — My Dangerous Desires: A Queer Girl Dreaming Her Way Home". Duke University Press. October 29, 2012. Archived from the original on December 2, 2013. Retrieved December 4, 2013.
  2. ^ "Outsider Chic". Chicago Tribune. January 17, 2001. Retrieved December 22, 2021.
  3. ^ Hollibaugh, Amber L. (2000). My Dangerous Desires: A Queer Girl Dreaming Her Way Home. Duke University Press. pp. 12–42.
  4. ^ Christabelle Sethna and Steve Hewitt, "Clandestine Operations: The Vancouver Women's Caucus, the Abortion Caravan, and the RCMP," The Canadian Historical Review (September 2009) Volume 90, Number 3, pp 463–95
  5. ^ Jeffrey Weeks, "Allan Bérubé (1946–2007)," History Workshop Journal (Spring 2010) Issue 69, p 295
  6. ISBN 9780549561484.[permanent dead link
    ]
  7. ^ "The Heart of the Matter". PBS. Retrieved October 24, 2023.
  8. ^ Juhasz, Alexandra (1995). "So Many Alternatives: The Alternative AIDS Video Movement". Cinéaste. Retrieved October 24, 2023 – via ACT UP New York City.
  9. ^ Sharon Gmelch, et al. Gender on Campus: Issues for College Women (Rutgers University Press, 1998) p. 197.
  10. ISBN 9780896085497
    .
  11. ISBN 9780415917858
    .
  12. ^ Eliza Jane Reilly, "Liberalism and the Left: Rethinking the Relationship," Radical History Review (Spring 1998), Issue 71, pp3-5
  13. ^ Anika Stafford, "'Uncompromising Positions: Reiterations of Misogyny Embedded in Lesbian and Feminist Communities' Framing of Lesbian Femme Identities," Atlantis 2010, Vol. 35 Issue 1, pp 81–91.
  14. ^ Jenrose Fitzgerald, "Querying Sexual Economy: The Cultural Politics of Sexuality and Class in the United States," American Quarterly (2002) 54#2 pp 349–357
  15. ^ Cited in Iain Morland, "What Can Queer Theory Do for Intersex?," GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies Volume 15, Number 2, 2009 p 303
  16. JSTOR 4023585
    .
  17. ^ "Vicki Award Recipient List".
  18. ^ "Amber Hollibaugh". Archived from the original on June 3, 2012. Retrieved May 25, 2012.
  19. ^ GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies (2004) 10#2 pp 313–316
  20. ^ Staff reports (November 3, 2023). "Activist, organizer, author Amber Hollibaugh dies at 77". www.washingtonblade.com.
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