She also founded the Women's Rights are Human Rights nonprofit. She was on the founding board of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and was a member of the Lavender Menace. She is also survived by her dog, Missy, and peacock, Henrietta.Ībbott joined the National Organization for Women ( NOW ) in 1969 and was one of the first people to speak out about the rights of lesbians to other NOW members. She studied urban planning in graduate school at Columbia University.Ībbott is survived by her her nephew David Abbott of Brooklyn and a sister-in-law, Jane Abbott. Douglas MacArthur during World War II.Ībbott attended Smith College for three years before graduating from the University of Albuquerque, New Mexico with a bachelor's degree in art history in 1961. Her father went to West Point and later was an aide to Gen. Kraba said.Abbott was born Jin Washington, D.C., to a military family. “I think it was a holdover from being in that first wave, that there was always an element of fear that there was going to be some backlash against her being lesbian,” Rev. Initially, Abbott feared a backlash against the church from the local community. Addae Kraba, then the minister of the First Universalist Church in Southold, to make the congregation more welcoming to the LGBTQ community. Toward the end of her life, Abbott-at that time wheelchair-bound-worked with Rev. Love and Abbott also fought together to ensure that Identity House, originally a walk-in aid station for LGBTQ individuals, as well as a psychiatric research center, continued to offer hands-on assistance to clients after its academic wing attempted to focus solely on psychology rather than social work.
Rita Mae Brown with an unidentified woman in Lavender Menace tee shirts, 1970.
“Then there were other people who were raising consciousness within the radical lesbian community.” “She was raising consciousness within the mainstream,” recalled Ellen Shumsky, a fellow activist. Most notably, it protested the exclusion of lesbians and lesbian issues from the Second Congress to Unite Women in 1970, a prominent feminist event. Love and Abbott helped launch Lavender Menace, a group that pressured the feminist movement to address lesbian concerns. “Sidney,” she added, “put her shoulder to the wheel on feminist issues and she understood the pressure against lesbians.”
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