Different Daughters
March 17, 2013
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/83068.Different_Daughters Different Daughters: A History of the Daughters of Bilitis and the Rise of the…
Marcia M. Gallo Ph.D.
Marcia M. Gallo taught local, U.S., and transnational history at Lehman College/City University of New York (CUNY), in Bronx, New York, before relocating to Las Vegas in 2008. She received her Ph.D. in History with specialization in Gender and Sexuality from the City University of New York Graduate School in 2004. Her dissertation, published in 2006 by Carroll & Graf as "Different Daughters: A History of the Daughters of Bilitis and the Rise of the Lesbian Rights Movement," won the 2006 Lambda Literary Award and was named one of the best books of the year by the San Francisco Chronicle. In 2007, Gallo received the Passing the Torch Award from the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at CUNY for her scholarship on feminist and lesbian activism. Gallo has researched and written about Cold War women’s history, focusing on the ways in which women of color, working and poor women, and sexually nonconforming women organized for civil and human rights in the U.S. and internationally. She is now working on a book about Catherine “Kitty” Genovese, who was murdered in Queens, New York, in 1964 and became an international symbol of urban apathy, the “bystander syndrome,” and the failure of community. A native of Wilmington, Delaware, Gallo was Field Director for the American Civil Liberties Union in San Francisco before entering academia. She also served as Director of Development and Donor Relations with the Funding Exchange, a network of progressive community-based foundations headquartered in New York.
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