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| place_death=Albuquerque, New Mexico
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| 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 }}</ref>
| 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 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230507142412/https://jwa.org/weremember/feldman-maxine |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>
| gender=
| gender="[[transgender]] [[butch]] [[lesbian]]"<ref name="Kiritsy" />
| occupation=musician, comedian
| occupation=musician, comedian
| known_for="Angry Atthis"
| known_for="Angry Atthis"
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'''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>
'''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 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20190827211801/http://http:///|archive-date= 17 July 2023}}</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=  |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20190827211801/http://http:///|archive-date= 17 July 2023}}</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= |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20190827211801/http://http:///|archive-date= 17 July 2023}}</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= |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20190827211801/http://http:///|archive-date= 17 July 2023}}</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|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20220407103408/https://books.google.com/books?id=Rw9nhW4QeywC&lpg=PA139&dq=%22maxine%20feldman%22&pg=PA139|archive-date= 17 July 2023}}</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=|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20190827211801/http://http:///|archive-date= 17 July 2023}}</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=  |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20190827211801/http://http:///|archive-date= 17 July 2023}}</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|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230507142412/https://jwa.org/weremember/feldman-maxine|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</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 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170325025320/https://books.google.com/books?id=KiEczBAvANkC&lpg=PA147&dq=%22maxine%20feldman%22&pg=PA147|archive-date= 17 July 2023}}</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}}</ref> Feldman had been comfortable with either gender label and wore men's clothing on stage.<ref name="sullivan"/>
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|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220331030136/http://www.edgeprovidence.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=&sc2=news&sc3=&id=36268|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref> Feldman had been comfortable with being labeled either "man" or "woman", and wore men's clothing on stage.<ref name="sullivan"/>





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Maxine "Max" Adele Feldman (December 26, 1945 – August 17, 2007) was an American folk singer-songwriter, comedian[3][4][5] and pioneer of women's music. Feldman's song "Angry Atthis", first performed in May 1969 and first recorded in 1972,[6][7] is considered the first openly distributed out lesbian song[8] of what would become the women's music movement.[9][10] Feldman identified as a "big loud Jewish butch lesbian."[11][12]

Maxine Feldman
Date of birth December 26, 1945
Place of birth Brooklyn, New York
Date of death August 17, 2007
Place of death Albuquerque, New Mexico
Nationality American
Pronouns she/her, he/him, or s/he[1]
Gender identity "transgender butch lesbian"[2]
Occupation musician, comedian
Known for "Angry Atthis"

In later years, according to partner Helen Thornton, Feldman held a gender identity that was "both/and" rather than "either/or."[2] Feldman had been comfortable with being labeled either "man" or "woman", and wore men's clothing on stage.[12]


ReferencesEdit

  1. "Maxine Feldman, 1945 - 2007". Jewish Women's Archive. Archived from the original on 17 July 2023. Retrieved 8 October 2020.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Kiritsy, Laura (August 30, 2007). "Lesbian trail blazer Maxine Feldman dies". Edge Providence. Archived from the original on 17 July 2023.
  3. Zimmerman, Bonnie, ed. (August 21, 2013). Encyclopedia of Lesbian Histories and Cultures. Routledge. p. 185. Archived from the original|archive-url= requires |url= (help) on 17 July 2023.
  4. Keetley, Dawn (February 22, 2005). Public Women, Public Words: A Documentary History of American Feminism, Volume 2. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 326. Archived from the original|archive-url= requires |url= (help) on 17 July 2023.
  5. Mankiller, Wilma P.; Mink, Gwendolyn; Navarro, Marysa; Smith, Barbara; Steinem, Gloria, eds. (1999). The Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. p. 340. Archived from the original|archive-url= requires |url= (help) on 17 July 2023.
  6. Johnson, Gail; Keith, Michael C (December 18, 2014). Queer Airwaves: The Story of Gay and Lesbian Broadcasting: The Story of Gay and Lesbian Broadcasting. Routledge. Archived from the original|archive-url= requires |url= (help) on 17 July 2023.
  7. Warner, Sara (October 26, 2012). Acts of Gaiety: LGBT Performance and the Politics of Pleasure. University of Michigan Press. p. 139. ISBN 978-0472035670. Archived from the original on 17 July 2023.
  8. Haggerty, George; Zimmerman, Bonnie, eds. (September 2, 2003). "Music, women's". Encyclopedia of Lesbian and Gay Histories and Cultures. Taylor & Francis. p. 522.
  9. Vaid, Urvashi (November 18, 1995). Virtual Equality: The Mainstreaming of Gay and Lesbian Liberation. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Archived from the original|archive-url= requires |url= (help) on 17 July 2023.
  10. Morris, Bonnie J. (July 29, 2016). The Disappearing L: Erasure of Lesbian Spaces and Culture. SUNY Press. p. 27. Archived from the original|archive-url= requires |url= (help) on 17 July 2023.
  11. Anderson, Jamie (2008). "Maxine Feldman Folk Musician, Lesbian Activist 1945 – 2007". Sing Out! The Folk Song Magazine. Jewish Women's Archive. Archived from the original on 17 July 2023.
  12. 12.0 12.1 Sullivan, Denise (2011). Keep on Pushing: Black Power Music from Blues to Hip-hop. Chicago Review Press. ISBN 9781556528170. Archived from the original on 17 July 2023.
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