Audre Lorde (1934–1992) was a poet, essayist, librarian, feminist, and equal rights activist. Lorde is self described as "black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet" and daughter of Caribbean immigrants. Lorde was a major contributor to the early American LGBT culture fostered in the bars of NYC. Her work deals with the topics of love, betrayal, childbirth and her life as a lesbian and is politically focused around gay and lesbian rights as well as feminism. Lorde shocked even other feminists of her time with her progressive theories that racism, sexism, and homophobia were all linked in that they all come from an inability to respect difference.
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