Name: Sheila Alexander-Reid
City, State of Residence: Ellicott City, MD
Age: Old enough to know better.
When she’s not teaching third grade or pursuing the guitar, Karen Jones is happily organizing one of the largest and best-known lesbian meetup groups in the D.C. Metro area.
This year Sinister Wisdom and A Midsummer’s Night Press will publish the second book in the Sapphic Classic series.The goal is to reprint iconic lesbian poetry to showcase the beauty of the past and bring it to a more contemporary audience.
This year will mark the 33rd Anniversary of HIV/AIDS in the United States and I have been reflecting on the impact it has had on my life. I “came out” as a lesbian in 1986, what some consider to be the height of the HIV/AIDS crisis in the U.S.