PBS Suffragist Series Left One Thing Out
At any rate, Alice Paul chose to live outside man-centric norms and worshipped the memory of Susan B. Anthony, who was herself lesbian (as I discussed in the March-April issue). Alice Paul was a Quaker suffragist who fought to secure women the right to vote and other feminist causes. The oldest of four siblings, she lived with her family on a acre farm, and as Hicksite Quakers , was raised to value living simply along with a high importance placed on gender equality and advocacy. The ERA Is Queer and It Always Has Been
Alice Stokes Paul (January 11, – July 9, ) was an American suffragist, feminist, and women's rights activist, and one of the main leaders and strategists of the campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits sex discrimination in the right to vote. By continuing to use our site, you agree to our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. It's been a year since Virginia became the final state needed to ratify the ERA, and trans politician Danica Roem was a key factor. Was Alice Paul gay?
Alice Paul’s sole interest in adding the word “sex” to the Civil Rights Act—and pretty much her only interest in life-- was to establish legal equality for women. But was Paul herself gay? She never married and had no children. The National Women’s Party, as it shrank in the decades after and its members grew older, became cult-like. Smith D. Paul is best known as a hunger striker and all-around ferocious advocate for passage of the 19th amendment in Queerplaces
The Alice Paul Institute educates and encourages women and girls to be leaders in their communities, and leads national advocacy efforts to advance Alice Paul’s vision for constitutionally protected gender equality through the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment. Alice Stokes Paul January 11, — July 9, was an American suffragist, feminist, and women's rights activist, and one of the main leaders and strategists of the campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment to the U. Constitution, which prohibits sex discrimination in the right to vote. 
The Queer History of the Suffrage Movement – Alice Paul
Alice Stokes Paul (January 11, – July 9, ) was an American Quaker, suffragette, suffragist, feminist, and women's rights activist, and one of the foremost leaders and strategists of the campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which prohibits sex discrimination in the right to vote. It may be surprising to some modern viewers to learn that it took so many grueling decades of struggle by women, who were met with ridicule and risked arrest, imprisonment, and even torture simply for demanding the right to vote. As excellent and informative as The Vote was on many levels, I was sorely disappointed that the series failed to mention the presence, indeed the prevalence, of suffragist leaders who were bisexuals and lesbians.
Alice Paul Center for Gender Justice Archives
Alice Paul, American women’s suffrage leader and women’s rights activist who first proposed an equal rights amendment to the United States Constitution and who influenced the U.S. Civil Rights Act of She was long considered the elder stateswoman of the feminist movement. .
Alice Paul
Alice Paul, coauthor of the ERA and longtime advocate, refused to marry a man and is rumored to have had a possibly romantic relationship with fellow suffragist Lucy Burns. .
Alice Paul
Sources “Alice Paul,” National Women's History Museum. “Alice Stokes Paul,” Alice Paul Institute. “Alice Paul and the Struggle for Women’s Suffrage,” Bill of Rights Institute. .