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Sally Miller Gearhart, lesbian writer and activist, dies at 90 The Wanderground is a speculative fiction novel by Sally Miller Gearhart, published in 1978 by Persephone Press. by Annabelle Williams (NYT NEWS SERVICE) .- Sally Miller Gearhart, a feminist, lesbian activist and prominent opponent of anti-gay policies whose writings included a classic of lesbian science fiction about a women-only society, much like the one she later founded in Northern California, died July 14 in Ukiah, California. She was 90. Deborah Craig, a friend and the producer of a forthcoming documentary film about Gearhart, confirmed her death. Gearhart rose to prominence in the 1970s when she campaigned with Harvey Milk, a San Francisco city supervisor and the first openly gay politician elected in California, against Proposition 6, a ballot measure that would have banned gay and lesbian teachers from public schools. ....
/ Sally Miller Gearhart was raised in Virginia and began her teaching career in Texas. She lived her life in the closet until the beginning of the modern gay rights movement brought her to San Francisco. She became the first out lesbian to receive a tenure track position at San Francisco State University, where she would teach speech, and later women’s studies. Gearhart stepped into activism in 1978 to fight against the Briggs Initiative. The proposition aimed to ban gay teachers in California. It didn’t pass. Throughout her life Gearhart marched alongside gay men for equal rights, but she believed that gays and lesbians were different, telling ....