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I’m glad mainstream culture is starting to catch up to where lesbian-feminism was 30 years ago.

Alison Bechdel

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Alison Bechdel
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 10
Cartoonist
Comics Artist
Novelist
Writer
Lock Haven
Pennsylvania
Alison J. Bechdel
Culture
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Lesbian
Mainstream
Feminism
Catch
Glad
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