Sidney Abbott

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Sidney Abbott
Born
Sidney Afton Abbott

July 11, 1937
DiedApril 15, 2015(2015-04-15) (aged 77)
Southold, New York, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Known forLesbian rights activist

Sidney Abbott (July 11, 1937 – April 15, 2015) was an American feminist and lesbian activist and writer. A former member of the

lesbian rights
, as well.

Life and career

Sidney Afton Abbott was born in 1937 into a military family, describing herself as a military brat. She attended Smith College for three years, and graduated from the University of New Mexico in 1961. She then attended Columbia University for graduate school, studying urban planning.

In 1969 she joined the

Sappho Was a Right-on Woman: A Liberated View of Lesbianism in 1971, with Barbara Love.[1]

In the mid-1970s, with Barbara Love, she lobbied for a NOW task force to be established to focus on lesbian issues, eventually it was established. NOW first named the task force the "sexuality and lesbian task force," and Abbott had to co-chair with a

heterosexual woman. At the NOW national conference in Philadelphia in 1976, Abbott demanded that 1% of the organizations budget should go to the task force, and succeeded. During the conference, it was only one of two resolutions to pass.[1]

Abbott served on the founding board of the

Long Island, New York.[1]

Abbott and Kate Millett, Phyllis Birkby, Alma Routsong, and Artemis March were among the members of CR One, the first lesbian-feminist consciousness-raising group.[2]

Later years

Abbott lived in

Radcliff College feminist collection of NOW biographies.[1][3]

Death

Abbott died in a house fire in Southold, New York on April 15, 2015.[4]

Works

  • Sidney Abbott; Barbara Love (1972). "Is Women's Liberation a Lesbian Plot?". Woman in Sexist Society: Studies in Power and Powerlessness. New American Library.
    ISBN 978-0-465-09199-7
    .
  • Sidney Abbott; Barbara Love (1977). Sappho was a Right-on Woman: A Liberated View of Lesbianism. Stein and Day.
    ISBN 978-0-8128-2406-3
    .

References

  1. ^
    ISBN 978-0-252-03189-2
    . Retrieved January 4, 2012.
  2. ISBN 978-0-8108-6327-9
    .
  3. ^ "Oral histories". Smith College. 2005. Archived from the original on March 16, 2011. Retrieved January 4, 2011.
  4. ^ Lisa Finn, "Victim of Southold Fire Renowned Feminist Sidney Abbott", Southold Local, April 15, 2015.
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