Jill Johnston
(1929 - living) U.S.A.
Author and critic
 Born near London, UK, and abandoned by her father, Johnston moved with her unwed American mother to the US as a child. By the 1960s, she had become a well-known art and dance critic in New York. In private life she was briefly married, and had a son and a daughter, but then suffered three mental breakdowns that she later attributed to her struggles over her identity.
Johnston came out as a lesbian a few months before the Stonewall riots in 1969, later making the connection between her personal revolution and that of the women's movement. But in her book Lesbian Nation, she made it clear that she did not believe in fighting for women's equality with men within the mainstream capitalist political system. She is a former columnist for the Village Voice.
Excerpts from: Aldrich R. & Wotherspoon G., Who's Who in Contemporary Gay and Lesbian History, from WWII to Present Day, Routledge, London, 2001
Website: http://www.jilljohnston.com/
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