Professor Jennifer Breyer

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Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society · Lesbian Blood Sisters of the HIV Crisis · 30 Jun 2026 podcast

So part of what Vic's quote asks at its basis is we're not those women, we're these women.

So I just think it's an important thing to note, not to undercut the incredible mobilization of it, but it does require a way of understanding themselves in relationship to other women who have sex with women and define themselves as distinct.

I mean, they do.

They work.

They work through the early 1990s around the country.

There are different ones.

It's a complicated moment to understand political context.

It's at a point of gay and lesbian liberation, right?

Gay and lesbian liberation has really transformed over the course of these 15 or so years from, if you mark it as starting, gay liberation as a particular movement starting in the 70s.

So that by the early 1980s, there are these gay and lesbian democratic classes.

as I said.

There are also, and this is part of the Blood Sisters, gay and lesbian affinity groups, what we would now call affinity groups, inside of various religious congregations.

So Reform Jews, the Metropolitan Community Church.

And those are congregations that

support Blood Sisters as well.

So again, like brothers and sisters moving together and doing the things that they can do.

It's part of now the National Organization for Women, the YWCA, the Young Women's Christian Association in different parts of the country.

It's part of GLAAD, the Gay and

You know, it's all of these things.

So it's become sort of more mainstream.

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