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Mabel Hampton was born in 1902. She was a Black lesbian activist, dancer and philanthropist. Born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Hampton was only two months old when her mother died. She was raised by her grandmother and then by her aunt and uncle, who treated her badly. From the age of eight to 17, Hampton lived with a white family in New Jersey.  In 1919 she went to jail for prostitution, which she saw as a lesbian code. After serving 13 months of a three-year sentence at Bedford Hills, Hampton was released. In the 1920s, Hampton danced in all-black productions alongside the stars of the Harlem Renaissance. In 1932 she met Lillian Foster and the two women began a relationship that lasted until Foster's death in 1978. Throughout the 60s, Hampton was the central figure in a black lesbian community that flourished in the Bronx, and in 1974 she began working with the Lesbian Herstory Archives. Mabel was also an important person in the gay rights movement - she participated in every gay pride march during her lifetime, including the first historic march and demonstration for gay rights in Washington, D.C., in 1979. In 1985, Mabel was named Grand Marshal of the New York City Gay Pride March. In the same year, Mabel received a lifetime achievement award from the National Coalition of Black Lesbians and Gays. Interviews with Mabel are featured in the movies „Before Stonewall“ and „Silent Pioneers“, both of which document the struggle for gay rights and efforts to achieve equality. Mabel died of pneumonia in 1989 in New York, USA, at the age of eighty-seven.

amazon.com/dp/B071JP4NSZ/ Earth’s first black, lesbian superheroine has had enough of humanity and disappeared. In this moving, opposites-attract, science-fiction tale, a stubborn tracker is sent to bring her home…any way she can. Shattergirl is a brilliant but aloof black, alien superheroine, called a guardian, who can hurl and destroy large objects. The world reveres her and other guardians like her, yet she’s suddenly refusing to save people and has gone off the grid. Lena Martin, the street-smart human tracker with a silver tongue and a disdain for the rogue guardians she chases, has only days to bring Shattergirl home. As the pair clash heatedly, masks begin to crack, and brutal secrets are exposed that could shatter them both. An award-winning, opposites-attract, lesbian science fiction tale embracing the special people who pass through our lives and change us forever.

https://lnkfi.re/NotForAMoment Desperate situations call for desperate lies in this charming, fake-relationship lesbian romance. Enjoy!

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