

The Audacity of a Kiss is a moving and inspiring tale of how love, art, and solidarity can overcome oppression. Rendered in bronze, covered in white lacquer, two women sit together on a park bench in. Foremost among these was her 1976 cofounding of the groundbreaking women’s nightclub Sahara, which played host to such luminaries as Betty Friedan, Gloria Steinem, Pat Benatar, Ntozake Shange, Rita Mae Brown, Adrienne Rich, Patti Smith, Bella Abzug, and Jane Fonda. The Audacity of a Kiss: Love, Art, and Liberation Cohen Leslie Knihy.

Transporting the reader to the pivotal time when brave gay women and men carved out spaces where they could live and love freely, she recounts both her personal struggles and the accomplishments she achieved as part of New York’s gay and feminist communities. (George Pimentel/Shutterstock) Soon after the jaw-dropping moment happened, many of her Little Monsters took to Twitter to react to the kiss. In this evocative memoir, Cohen tells the story of a love that has lasted for over fifty years. Lady Gaga & Brendan Gleeson kiss at the 2023 Oscars. The two women are part of George Segal’s iconic sculpture “Gay Liberation,” but these powerful symbols were modeled on real people: Leslie Cohen and her partner (now wife) Beth Suskin. One of the women touches the thigh of her partner as they gaze into each other’s eyes. Rendered in bronze, covered in white lacquer, two women sit together on a park bench in Greenwich Village.
