Norah Vincent
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Norah Vincent is an American journalist and author, known for being a conservative lesbian.[#endnote_gay-forum]
Vincent was a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies from its 2001 inception[1] to 2003.[[Citing sources citation needed]] She has also had columns at Salon.com[#endnote_salon], The Advocate[#endnote_advocate], the Los Angeles Times[#endnote_la-times], and the Village Voice[#endnote_village-voice].
Vincent's most recent book, Self-Made Man, retells an eighteen-month experiment in which she disguised herself as a male.[#endnote_self-made] She talked about it in HARDtalk extra on BBC on April 21, 2006 and described her experiences in male-male and male-female relationships. She joined an all-male bowling club, and visited Catholic monks in a cloister. She dated women and describes how inferior she felt, when judged by women during flirting.
References
- ↑ [Independent Gay Forum: Norah Vincent]. URL accessed 20 February 2006.
- ↑ [A Self-Made Man: Woman Goes Undercover to Experience Life as a man], ABC news, 20 January 2006. URL accessed 20 February 2006.
- ↑ [Norah Vincent at Salon.com]. URL accessed 20 February 2006.
- ↑ "Last Word," The Advocate, issue 903.
- ↑ Vincent, Norah (2001). "Getting a Grip Is All We Can Do," the Los Angeles Times, October 25.
- ↑ Vincent, Norah (2001). "[Higher Ed]," Village Voice, February 6. URL accessed 20 February 2006.
External links
- [Norah Vincent's official website]
- [Norah Vincent's Village Voice articles]
- [Ann Marlowe, the Memoir, and the Self-Made Man]
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