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Toni Armstrong Jr.
12021-07-14T20:19:26-07:00Julia M Tanenbaumf184d58ff97337c79794f4b4a236d9dc8034c647392832gallery2021-07-15T09:06:03-07:00Julia M Tanenbaumf184d58ff97337c79794f4b4a236d9dc8034c647Toni Armstrong Jr. is a lifelong educator and LGBT and social justice organizer who played a key role in building the women's music and culture movement. She published HOT WIRE: The Journal of Women's Music and Culture; We Shall Go Forth Directory; and Paid My Dues, while also acting as a photographer for HOT WIRE and other publications and music festivals. She also performed in Lavender Jane alongside Alix Dobkin and Kay Gardner and in Surrender Dorothy. She is a co-founder of Music Industry Conferences and Women Writers Conferences (National Women's Music Festival) and produces concerts with Chicago's Mountain Moving Coffeehouse. She led the charge to build Gay-Straight Alliances in the Chicago area, co-founded and contributed to organizations like GLSEN Chicago, Color Triangle LGBT anti-racism coalition, and Amazon Lesbian Red Hat Sisterhood. In 2008 she founded BLAST (Bi, Lesbian, and Straight Together) Women of the Palm Beaches after her move to Florida. She also funded and helped create films including women’s music documentary Radical Harmonies.¹
Chicago Gay History. “Toni Armstrong Jr.” https://www.chicagogayhistory.com/biography.php?id=600.
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12021-07-14T20:42:10-07:00Julia M Tanenbaumf184d58ff97337c79794f4b4a236d9dc8034c647Toni Armstrong Jr.1Portrait of Toni Armstrong Jr. from Chicago Gay History, Rights held by photographer.plain2021-07-14T20:42:11-07:00Chicago Gay HistoryJulia M Tanenbaumf184d58ff97337c79794f4b4a236d9dc8034c647
12021-07-15T09:04:01-07:00Julia M Tanenbaumf184d58ff97337c79794f4b4a236d9dc8034c647Hotwire Back Cover with Toni Armstrong Jr. Photos1Hotwire Back Cover with Toni Armstrong Jr. photos of Margie Adam, Pam Hall, and Melanie DeMore, Rashida Oji, Lakota Haren, Doralynn Folse, an Carol Chaikin. Rights held by Toni Armstrong Jr.plain2021-07-15T09:04:01-07:00June L Mazer Lesbian ArchivesToni Armstrong Jr.Julia M Tanenbaumf184d58ff97337c79794f4b4a236d9dc8034c647
