Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen was interviewed by Tori Currier on April 1, 2022. In this interview, Barbara Allen reflects upon her experiences living in Northampton as a two-mom household, and having been a co-chair of Northampton Pride in the early 2000’s. She discusses her work in 1970’s women’s concert production, and at a women’s bookstore and information center in LA called Sisterhood Bookstore. Allen traces her personal history with pride marches, as well as talks about her political activism against the Briggs Initiative, which would have made it illegal for LGBTQ+ people to become schoolteachers, and how she and her partner pushed the legal system to cross-adopt each other’s biological children.