“Love’s Acolyte,” by Elsa Gidlow. Written in 1919 for Estelle Cox, originally published in On a Grey
“Love’s Acolyte,” by Elsa Gidlow. Written in 1919 for Estelle Cox, originally published in On a Grey Thread (1923), and reprinted in both Sapphic Songs: Eighteen to Eighty (1982) and (above) Elsa, I Come with My Songs (1985).“Women say to me now that they become lesbians as a ‘political’ act. In the mood and context of today’s awareness, I hear and feel the meaning behind that statement. I was committed to the goal, but not able to see love as a weapon of war … My feeling for women is a need more profound and deep than the social, ranging from the compellingly physical to and through the nourishment of the aesthetic to the transcendingly spiritual.” – Gidlow, 1985. -- source link
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