100 Women We Love: Class Of 2018

Each one of these women, in her own unique way, is a role model who exemplifies the best of the LGBTQ community.

Rebekah Weatherspoon

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Rebekah Weatherspoon is a woman we love who writes about women (and men) who love. Her books include the paranormal romance Soul to Keep, which garnered the 2017 Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Erotica, and At Her Feet, which won an Erotica award from the lesbian Golden Crown Literary Society in 2014. She also has one of the most colorful resumes in the spectrum, with jobs that have included “library assistant, meter maid, middle school teacher, B-movie production assistant, reality show crew chauffeur, D-movie producer, and her most fulfilling job to date, lube and harness specialist at an erotic boutique in West Hollywood.” These days, the former New Hampshirite spins stories from her home in Southern California, “where she will remain because she hates moving.” The most rewarding part of her work, she says, is “hearing from other women of color, especially young, queer, Black women who have connected to my work. Writing can be a lonely process and it’s easy to forget that someone might really fall in love with your books one day because they feature characters that finally look like them. Knowing that I’ve written something that touches someone who feels that they are left out of media, and romance fiction in particular, really is the best.” —GH


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