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LESBIANS ON THE LOOSE
Fix this textJOLV 1994 • ISSUE SS • VOL S NO 7
Fix this textFREE
Fix this textLesbian link to
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Fix this text‘Madness’
Fix this textBy Barbara Farrelly & Frances Rand
Fix this textLittle girls are made out of sugar and spice
Fix this textand all things nice but lesbians are made
Fix this textout of androgens.
Fix this textThe news that lesbianism in some women
Fix this textmay be an inherited trait not a lifestyle choice
Fix this textwas delivered on June 15 at the 76th Annual
Fix this textEndocrine Society conference in California.
Fix this textDr Robert Blizzard, a retired University of
Fix this textVirginia professor, presented case histories of
Fix this textpatients with an adrenal gland disorder that
Fix this textcauses foetuses to produce too much androgen.
Fix this textCommentators in Australia, the US and the
Fix this textUK, however, are dismissing the latest theory
Fix this textfrom the American scientist that women with
Fix this textmore androgen, are "more likely" to be lesbian.
Fix this textHead of Women's Studies at the Australian
Fix this textNational University, Dr Jill Matthews, describes
Fix this textBlizzard's claim as "madness" .
Fix this text"What sort of test is 'more likely'? If the
Fix this textadrenal disorder creates sexual preference
Fix this textand that's an outrageous leap from endocrinology
Fix this textto social behaviour then why doesn't it create
Fix this textit in every case?
Fix this text"One has to wonder about research like this
Fix this textwhen we still do not have a biological or
Fix this textendocrinal explanation for heterosexuality,"
Fix this textMatthews told LOTL.
Fix this textAccording to Blizzard, studies have shown
Fix this textthat by injecting rats with androgens, "you can
Fix this texttake a chromosomally normal female and change
Fix this textsexual preference."
Fix this textBlizzard's findings support a 1991 study by
Fix this textLos Angeles neuroscientist, Simon LeVay, which
Fix this textfound that a group of cells in the hypothalamus
Fix this textwas smaller on average in gay men.
Fix this textLeVay is now claiming these physical
Fix this textdifferences "could well be influenced by androgen
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Fix this textBut critics like Matthews say studies like
Fix this textLeVay's that find differences in the brains of
Fix this texthomosexuals and heterosexuals are simplistic
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Fix this textUS academic and author, Lillian Faderman,
Fix this textwarns that linking gayness to a gene or linking
Fix this textlesbianism to a hormone will undoubtedly
Fix this textgive some people hope for a real homosexual
Fix this textgenocide.
Fix this textCont. on p. 4...
Fix this textTV’s COMIC SUPERSTAR Magda Szubanski, dipping into Radclyffe Hall’s
Fix this textlesbian classic at the grand opening party for the Women’s library.
Fix this textHoused in the Alexandria Town Hall, the library was launched by
Fix this textDale Spender and Anne Deveson on June 118.
Fix this textPhoto: Kirsty Buchanan
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Fix this textThe Lesbian Space Project is negotiating to
Fix this textbuy Distaff from owner Eva Cox for
Fix this text$300,000. The 400 square metre building at
Fix this text119 Church Street, Camperdown, is
Fix this textcurrently zoned residential and South
Fix this textSydney Council will be asked to change
Fix this textthe zoning from its existing use as a
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Fix this textUNCOMMON WOMEN HONOURED
Fix this textNEW YORK Four Australians were among
Fix this text220 women honoured at an international
Fix this textlesbian awards ceremony on Sunday,
Fix this textJune 19. Jennifer Wilson, a member of he
Fix this textboard of Pride, film-maker Marguerite
Fix this textGrey, Lesbian Space Project co-convenor,
Fix this textGeorgina Abrahams and Queensland
Fix this textPride journalist, Catherine McKenzie, were
Fix this textamong names added to a roll of honour
Fix this texttitled Salute to Uncommon Women,
Fix this textcompiled by Legacy, to mark the 25th
Fix this textanniversary celebrations of the Stonewall
Fix this textuprising. Legacy's spokesperson, Vivian
Fix this textSnapiro, said nominees also included poet
Fix this textand author May Sarton, feminist Kate
Fix this textMillet, author Rita-Mae Brown and
Fix this textcartoonist Alison Bechdel.
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