Things moved quickly from there, as they do. In 1963, when she was 24 years old, she met Kitty at an underground club. So as soon as Mary Ann could get there, she went there. Mary Ann was a young lesbian who consumed all the lesbian media she could get her hands on - perhaps you know the feeling - and in Ann Bannon’s lesbian pulp novels, Beebo Brinker told a fellow lady-lover that Greenwich Village was the place to be. Mary Ann had been in New York since she was 16. She’d grown up in New York but when her family left for Connecticut, Kitty refused to leave the place where she felt so free. You actually get to know Kitty, too, and that’s important because she was a person, a girl who liked folk music and reading non-fiction books and had her whole damn life ahead of her and then her life ended just like that.
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(I found it in the library when doing research for an upcoming Autostraddle series about murder cases involving lesbians as victims or killers.) It’s a cool book that debunks almost everything I thought I knew about the case.įurthermore, the author spoke to Kitty’s girlfriend, Mary Ann, at length, and there’s a lot of interesting stuff about lesbian history, too. And, most importantly, I personally finished reading the 2014 book Kitty Genovese: The Murder, The Bystanders, The Crime That Changed America just this past weekend. The Witness, a documentary about the murder, is currently making the festival rounds. On Sunday night, Girls aired an episode that included a play, “38 Windows,” about the Genovese case. On Monday, April 4th, Winston Moseley, the man who raped and murdered 28-year-old lesbian barmaid Kitty Genovese, died in prison at the age of 81. The 200 Best Lesbian, Bisexual & Queer Movies Of All Time.LGBTQ Television Guide: What To Watch Now.
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