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Susie Bright and Honey Lee Cottrell. Credit: Mariette Pathy Allen

Imagine our surprise to learn that Honey Lee Cottrell was being evicted from the apartment she’s had since the early days of On Our Backs.

On Our Backs was the seminal lesbian porn magazine first published by Deborah Sundahl and Myrna Elena. Nan Kinney became publisher not long after that first issue came out, and Susie Bright became editor.

Susie and Honey Lee shared that apartment back in the early days of OOB. Many of the magazine’s sexy shoots took place in it or nearby.

Susie’s piece is an amazing chronicle of the OOB shoots and that apartment on Bessie Street in San Francisco.

There are fabulous pictures in this piece. One in particular, The Voyeur shoot at the York Theater, with Susie, Honey Lee and Nan, brought a big smile to our faces. Nan’s hair!

Read Susie’s piece here:
Annals of Bessie Street: From Revolution to Eviction

<Snip>This Friday I am losing my long-standing home in San Francisco: 25A Bessie Street. My first books Herotica and Susie Sexpert’s Lesbian Sex World were written inside this little nest. I grew up as a young woman in this apartment, my daughter grew up here from infancy to adulthood. The… <snip> Read more.

Here are two good articles about On Our Backs, should you want to know more:

Susie Bright’s remembrance of On Our Backs:
http://susiebright.blogs.com/History_of_OOB.pdf

The Wikipedia article about On Our Backs:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Our_Backs

Thank you, Susie, for this important piece. We’ve been thinking of you and Honey Lee and that Bessie Street apartment.

Yours in good love and sex,

Christi and Nan
nan@fatalemedia.com
christi@fatalemedia.com

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