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| place_death=Albuquerque, New Mexico | | place_death=Albuquerque, New Mexico | ||
| nationality=American | | nationality=American | ||
| pronouns=[[she/her]], [[he/him]], or [[s/he]]<ref name="jwa">{{Cite web |title=Maxine Feldman, 1945 - 2007 |author= |work=Jewish Women's Archive |date= |access-date=8 October 2020 |url= https://jwa.org/weremember/feldman-maxine | | pronouns=[[she/her]], [[he/him]], or [[s/he]]<ref name="jwa">{{Cite web |title=Maxine Feldman, 1945 - 2007 |author= |work=Jewish Women's Archive |date= |access-date=8 October 2020 |url= https://jwa.org/weremember/feldman-maxine }}</ref> | ||
| gender="[[transgender]] [[butch]] [[lesbian]]"<ref name="Kiritsy" /> | | gender="[[transgender]] [[butch]] [[lesbian]]"<ref name="Kiritsy" /> | ||
| occupation=musician, comedian | | occupation=musician, comedian | ||
| known_for="Angry Atthis" | | known_for="Angry Atthis" | ||
}} | }} | ||
'''Maxine "Max" Adele Feldman''' (December 26, 1945 – August 17, 2007) was an American folk singer-songwriter, comedian<ref name="zimmerman">{{cite book |editor-last= Zimmerman|editor-first= Bonnie|date= August 21, 2013|title= Encyclopedia of Lesbian Histories and Cultures|url= |location= |publisher= Routledge|page= 185 | '''Maxine "Max" Adele Feldman''' (December 26, 1945 – August 17, 2007) was an American folk singer-songwriter, comedian<ref name="zimmerman">{{cite book |editor-last= Zimmerman|editor-first= Bonnie|date= August 21, 2013|title= Encyclopedia of Lesbian Histories and Cultures|url= |location= |publisher= Routledge|page= 185 }}</ref><ref name="keetley">{{cite book |last= Keetley|first= Dawn|date= February 22, 2005|title= Public Women, Public Words: A Documentary History of American Feminism, Volume 2|url= |location= |publisher= Rowman & Littlefield|page= 326|isbn= }}</ref><ref name="mankiller">{{cite book |editor1-last= Mankiller|editor1-first= Wilma P.|editor2-last= Mink|editor2-first= Gwendolyn|editor3-last= Navarro|editor3-first= Marysa|editor4-last= Smith|editor4-first= Barbara|editor5-last= Steinem|editor5-first= Gloria|date= 1999|title= The Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History|url= |location= |publisher= Houghton Mifflin Harcourt|page= 340|isbn= }}</ref> and pioneer of women's music. Feldman's song "Angry Atthis", first performed in May 1969 and first recorded in 1972,<ref name="airwaves">{{cite book |last1= Johnson|first1= Gail| last2= Keith|first2= Michael C|date= December 18, 2014|title= Queer Airwaves: The Story of Gay and Lesbian Broadcasting: The Story of Gay and Lesbian Broadcasting|url= |location= |publisher= Routledge|page= |isbn= }}</ref><ref name="gaiety">{{cite book |last= Warner|first= Sara|date= October 26, 2012|title= Acts of Gaiety: LGBT Performance and the Politics of Pleasure|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=Rw9nhW4QeywC&lpg=PA139&dq=%22maxine%20feldman%22&pg=PA139#v=onepage&q=%22maxine%20feldman%22&f=false|location= |publisher= University of Michigan Press|page= 139|isbn= 978-0472035670}}</ref> is considered the first openly distributed [[coming out|out]] [[lesbian]] song<ref name="lesbian-gay-encyclopedia">{{cite book |chapter= Music, women's|editor1-last= Haggerty|editor1-first= George|editor2-last= Zimmerman|editor2-first= Bonnie|title= Encyclopedia of Lesbian and Gay Histories and Cultures|chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=qAZ5AgAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&dq=haggerty%20zimmerman%20encyclopedia&pg=PA523#v=onepage&q=maxine%20feldman&f=false|publisher= Taylor & Francis|date= September 2, 2003|page= 522}}</ref> of what would become the women's music movement.<ref name="vaid">{{cite book |last= Vaid|first= Urvashi|date= November 18, 1995|title= Virtual Equality: The Mainstreaming of Gay and Lesbian Liberation|url= |location= |publisher= Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group|page= |isbn=}}</ref><ref name="l">{{cite book |last= Morris|first= Bonnie J.|date= July 29, 2016|title= The Disappearing L: Erasure of Lesbian Spaces and Culture|url= |location= |publisher= SUNY Press |page= 27|isbn= }}</ref> Feldman identified as a "big loud Jewish butch lesbian."<ref name="anderson">{{cite web|last=Anderson|first=Jamie|title=Maxine Feldman Folk Musician, Lesbian Activist 1945 – 2007|url=http://jwa.org/weremember/feldman-maxine|work=Sing Out! The Folk Song Magazine|publisher=Jewish Women's Archive|year=2008}}</ref><ref name="sullivan">{{cite book |last= Sullivan|first= Denise|date= 2011|title= Keep on Pushing: Black Power Music from Blues to Hip-hop|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=KiEczBAvANkC&lpg=PA147&dq=%22maxine%20feldman%22&pg=PA147#v=onepage&q=%22maxine%20feldman%22&f=false|location= |publisher= Chicago Review Press|page= |isbn= 9781556528170 }}</ref> | ||
In later years, according to partner Helen Thornton, Feldman held a gender identity that was "both/and" rather than "either/or."<ref name="Kiritsy">{{cite news|last=Kiritsy|first=Laura|title=Lesbian trail blazer Maxine Feldman dies|url=http://www.edgeprovidence.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=&sc2=news&sc3=&id=36268|newspaper=Edge Providence|date=August 30, 2007 | In later years, according to partner Helen Thornton, Feldman held a gender identity that was "both/and" rather than "either/or."<ref name="Kiritsy">{{cite news|last=Kiritsy|first=Laura|title=Lesbian trail blazer Maxine Feldman dies|url=http://www.edgeprovidence.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=&sc2=news&sc3=&id=36268|newspaper=Edge Providence|date=August 30, 2007}}</ref> Feldman had been comfortable with being labeled either "man" or "woman", and wore men's clothing on stage.<ref name="sullivan"/> | ||