Jorjet Harper

Jorjet Harper, since the 1970s, has been a writer, editor, and musician in the lesbian community.^[1]

Jorjet Harper
Occupation(s)	Writer, editor, musician

Career

Harper has served as entertainment editor for Outlines newspaper and writes for Chicago's gay and lesbian newspaper, the Windy City Times. for ten years, she was a staff writer for HOT WIRE: The Journal of Women's Music and Culture.^[1]

Lesbomania, her syndicated column, was published in a book, as well as its sequel Tales From the Dyke Side.^[1]

Soon after moving to Chicago from New York City in 1979, she began writing for Blazing Star, Chicago's lesbian-feminist newsletter.^[2]

Biography

Her grandmother, Minnie Buckingham Harper, was the first woman of African descent to serve in a United States Legislative body.^[3]

She was inducted into the Chicago LGBT Hall of Fame in 1998.^[2]