Jorjet Harper

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

Jorjet Harper
Occupations	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^[2] 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.^[3]

Biography

Her grandmother, Minnie Buckingham Harper, was the first woman of African descent to serve in a United States Legislative body.^[4]

She was inducted into the Chicago LGBT Hall of Fame in 1998.^[3]