D.C.’s lesbian Furies house under consideration for National Historic Landmark
A rowhouse on Capitol Hill used in the early 1970s as headquarters for a lesbian feminist group called the Furies Collective is under consideration by the National Park Service for designation as a National Historic Landmark.
The National Park System’s National Historic Landmarks Committee was scheduled to discuss and make a recommendation on the Furies Collective house designation at a Nov.
16 virtual meeting, according to information on the National Park Service website. “As the headquarters of the short-lived, but consequential Furies Collective, the rowhouse at 219 11th Street, S.E., Washington, D.C.
is nationally significant for the important role it played in the articulation of lesbian feminist separatism, an influential school of thought that upholds heterosexuality as a key element in perpetuating women’s oppression,” a National Historic Landmark Executive Summary of the proposed landmark designation says. “Lesbian feminist separatism had a dramatic impact on lesbian culture for the next two decades, inspiring the creation of a women’s culture and national network of women-owned businesses, women artists, and feminist thinkers,” the statement says.
