The Butch Lesbians of the ’50s, ’60s, and ’70s Coloring Book proved so popular a second edition is due just two months after the first print run.
The sequel to The Butch Lesbians of the ’20s, ’30s, and ’40s Coloring Book contains 40 pages to color, as well as profiles by editors Jon Macy and Avery Cassell of colorful butches who were activists, artists, gender outlaws and feminist warriors.
The coloring book contains images and biographies of blues singer Gladys Bentley, author Jane Rule, powerboat racer Joe Carstairs, filmmaker Esther Eng, curator Adrienne Fuzee, photographer Honey Lee Cottress, singer Chavela Vargas, artist Margo Rivera-Weiss, anthropologist Esther Newton, actress Pat Bond, sex worker Frede Baulé, critic Butchy McCausland, activist Donna Burkett and more.
Burkett, whose page was drawn by Ajuan Manch, should be a name known in Milwaukee’s LGBT community.
Her profile reads, “Donna Burkett came out at age 7, ran away to join the Army at age 16, quit the army due to racism and joined the civil rights and gay movements. On October 1, 1971, she and her girlfriend Manonia Evans applied for a marriage license in Milwaukee, were rejected and went to federal court over their right to marry.”
Note: This story originally published in the Wisconsin Gazette.