The woman behind Lisa Ben

Retropod

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History, Kids & Family, Education For Kids

4.5 • 670 Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2018

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Edythe Eyde, also known by her pen name Lisa Ben, was a visionary who fought to make lesbians visible in pop culture decades before most others had the guts to do the same.

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0:14.5	Hey, history lovers. I'm Mike Rosenwald with Retropod, a show about the past, rediscovered.
0:20.7	Today I want you to meet Edith
0:22.3	Ide, a visionary who fought to make lesbians visible in pop culture decades before most others
0:27.5	had the guts to do the same. When I'd was 25 years old, she worked as a secretary at RKO Studios,
0:34.3	a movie production company in Los Angeles. The job wasn't very exciting, pushing papers, running files around the office.
0:41.4	I'd wasn't all that different from other movie company secretaries.
0:44.6	Her ambitions were creative, not clerical.
0:47.0	She liked writing.
0:48.0	She wanted to tell stories.
0:49.5	And she had an idea, a magazine for queer women.
0:53.4	There was just one thing standing in her way. It was
0:56.3	1947. Those were different times in so many ways. I knew a traditional printer wouldn't dare
1:05.1	help her produce something as scandalous as a magazine for lesbians. So when she decided to launch
1:09.8	a magazine called vice versa, she designed and she decided to launch a magazine called Vice Versa,
1:11.5	she designed and templated the entire thing herself,
1:14.5	using her employer's typewriters.
1:17.3	She had to do it in secret,
1:19.4	because under California law,
1:21.2	her magazine wasn't just scandalous.
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