The Lexington Six: Lesbian and Gay Resistance in 1970s America

by Josephine Donovan

Book Overview

On September 23, 1970, a group of antiwar activists staged a robbery at a bank in Massachusetts, during which a police officer was killed. While the three men who participated in the robbery were soon apprehended, two women escaped and became fugitives on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list, eventually landing in a lesbian collective in Lexington, Kentucky, during the summer of 1974. In pursuit, the FBI launched a massive dragnet. Five lesbian women and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1625345445
• ISBN13: 9781625345448
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher