She also sat on the Board of the Los Angeles Gay Community Services Center and became the Human Rights Editor of the progressive weekly, the Los Angeles Free Press (1973–1976).Ĭórdova was elected as a delegate to the first National Women's Conference for International Women's Year in Houston (1977), where she was a moving force behind the passage of the lesbian affirmative action resolution. In the 1970s Córdova was a key organizer of four lesbian conferences, among them the first West Coast Lesbian Conference at Metropolitan Community Church (1971) and the first National Lesbian Conference : 190 at the University of California, Los Angeles (1973). The publication ranked "highest in the criteria of journalistic excellence". : 136, 190 Under Córdova the DOB chapter newsletter evolved into The Lesbian Tide (1970–1980), with Córdova serving as editor and publisher of what became "the newspaper of record for the lesbian feminist decade". During her DOB presidency she opened the first lesbian center in Los Angeles, in 1971. She began her lesbian and gay rights career as Los Angeles chapter President of the Daughters of Bilitis (DOB).
Life and career Ĭórdova entered the Immaculate Heart of Mary convent after high school in 1966, but left in 1968 and completed her social work degree while becoming a community organizer/activist and later a journalist. She interned in the African-American and Latino communities of Watts & East Los Angeles and earned a master's degree in Social Work at UCLA in 1972. She attended high school at Bishop Amat High School in La Puente, California, east of Los Angeles and went on to California State University, Los Angeles and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where she graduated cum laude with a bachelor's degree in Social Welfare. Early years Ĭórdova was born in Bremerhaven, Germany in 1948, the second oldest of twelve children born to a Mexican father and Irish-American mother. In honor of her memory, Lambda Literary Foundation created the "Jeanne Córdova Words Scholarship" in 2016, and the Jeanne Córdova Prize for Lesbian/Queer Nonfiction in 2017. She was a prolific writer, journalist, and businesswoman, and a Lambda Literary, Publishing Triangle and Goldie Award winning author for her 2011 memoir When We Were Outlaws: a Memoir of Love and Revolution. Córdova was a second-wave feminist lesbian activist and proud butch. Jeanne Córdova (July 18, 1948 – January 10, 2016) was an American trailblazer of the lesbian and gay rights movement, founder of The Lesbian Tide, and a founder of the West Coast LGBT movement. Goldie Award, Golden Crown Literary Society.Lammy Award, Lambda Literary Foundation.
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