A Woman to Know: Natalie Barney
My queerness is not a vice, and harms no one. — Natalie Barney
(image via Smithsonian Institution)
They called her "The Amazon," the "Sapphic Idyll" and even "Queen of the Lesbians." Seriously — in France in the early 1900s. She hosted weekly salons, called "Fridays," at her longtime pied a terre on the Rue Jacob, where she lived as an expatriate writer …
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