ABSTRACT
This chapter was originally presented as part of the student-organized Last Lecture Series sponsored by the Drake University Newman Center. Two 1993 articles document this phenomenon: Jeanie Russell Dasindorf's 'Lesbian Chic: The Bold, Brave New World of Gay Women' and Ann Powers's 'Queer in the Streets, Straight in the Sheets'. One example is a remarkably queer-literate episode of Designing Women in which Suzanne Sugarbaker sweats out the knowledge an old friend from her beauty pageant days is a lesbian. The Read Our Lips Task Force is committed to ending the lipservice paid to advancing lesbigay rights and demanding that genuine action take its place. The contemporary phenomenon of lesbian chic is perhaps best and most succinctly introduced through a short videoclip from a Rolling Stone retrospective of who was hot in 1993 which aired on the Fox Network. The 1990s are not the first time that lesbians have been chic in the USA.
