Leslie Cohen The tale behind the statue in Greenwich Village is LGBTQ history from one woman’s perspective TERRI SCHLICHENMEYER | Bookworm SezBookwormSez@gmail.com The Audacity of a Kiss: A Memoir by Leslie Cohen; c.2021, Rutgers University Press; $24.95; 235 pages. Don’t move.
Stay entirely still; don’t even breathe. You’re about to become a symbol of something that’s bigger than you are, something you’ll be proud of for the rest of your days.
Don’t flinch, scratch or sneeze; just don’t do anything. Don’t. Move. Unless it’s to turn the pages of The Audacity of a Kiss by Leslie Cohen.
Behind every statue is a story, and the one behind those representing four people in Christopher Park in New York’s Greenwich Village is no different.