Lorde described herself as “black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet,” and wove these themes into her work as a poet and essayist. We are ordinary people, living our lives, and trying, as civil-rights activist Dorothy Cotton said, to ‘fix what ain’t right’ in our society.”Īudre Lorde was a librarian before becoming a poet, when her 1968 work “The Black Unicorn” was published and received high praise. “We are no more – and no less – heroic than the suffragists and abolitionists of the 19th century. “All of us who are openly gay are living and writing the history of our movement,” says Baldwin. Baldwin, an attorney, was also the first woman elected to congress in her home state of Wisconsin. Tammy Baldwin is the first openly gay politician elected to the U.S. Pride Lesbian Wedding Coloring Page Pride LGBTQ Coloring Page Pride LGBT Flag Color by Number Coloring Page Gay Wedding Coloring Page