Today In Black LGBTQ+ History: Audre Lorde

TODAY IN BLACK LGBTQ+ HISTORY, we celebrate American feminist poet Audre Lorde, born February 18, 1934 in New York City. Lourde attended Hunter College from 1951 to 1959, graduating with a Bachelor’s degree, later earning a Master’s degree in Library Science from Columbia University in 1961. Lorde worked as a librarian at Mount Vernon Public Library in Mount Vernon, New York until 1963. While working in Mount Vernon, she married attorney Edwin Ashley Rollins. The couple had two children, Elizabeth and Jonathan and subsequently divorced in 1970. During her lifetime, Audre Lorde published twelve books. A number of her poems were also published in anthologies. Lorde described herself as “a black feminist lesbian mother poet.”