![]() Many of us in the LGBT community have resumes that are part career, part activism, in various ratios. The Lambda Award-winning author of When We Were Outlaws A Memoir of Love and Revolution was 67 at her death and had spent 50 years serving various communities with devotion, fealty and grit. But Córdova was all of these and one only had to be coming up lesbian in the years immediately post-Stonewall to know just how important her footprint was for our community and for lesbians in particular. We throw around the terms “icon,” “pioneer” and “hero” a little too readily. One of those friends, Jenny Pizer, said Córdova “was home with loved ones, and her close friend Dina Evans was on the phone with her.” Evans is a spiritual teacher and therapist and Pizer said she “helped Jeanne during the dying process.” She died just before dawn on Sunday, January 10, at her home in Los Angeles after a long, courageous and inspiring battle with cancer, her longtime partner Lynn Ballen by her side, as well as several of her closest friends. Jeanne Córdova said “It’s the job of the young to push the societal envelope.”Ĭórdova started doing that early and never stopped. ![]()
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