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Soon after I came out in 1984, my lover presented me with a box of Furies newspapers and told me I should read them. It was my introduction to lesbian feminist culture. The newspapers were 12 years old at the time but still resonated with me. The Furies showed me, a small-town working-class teenager from Montana, how the politics of class and sexuality would always be an important part of me. The Furies would influence me greatly at both 19 years old and decades later. My experience is not unique. At its height, The Furies newspaper had a national run and 5000 subscribers, and the ideology presented there was key to discussions of lesbian-feminist politics in the United States for the next 50 years. 

Over the last three years, I've traveled around the country to talk to the activists who formed the Furies collective in the early 1970s. I took my camera and recording equipment from Columbus, Ohio to Manhattan; from Washington, D.C. to Santa Fe; to Virginia; and three times to different parts of California. I interviewed, corresponded with, or talked on the phone with ten of the original twelve Furies. This film has its origins in nineteen hours of recorded footage, two long letters, a couple of book chapters, an abundance of email, and several long off-the-record phone calls.
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