100 WOMEN WE LOVE 2008
Lily Tomlin’s extraordinary career as a funny lady bloomed on the TV show Laugh-In in 1969, the year of the Stonewall rebellion. Fittingly, she has woven feminism and LGBT life into her characters—the not-so-hardworking phone operator Ernestine, Violet Newstead in 9 to 5 and the numerous personas populating The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, the one-woman play written by Tomlin’s partner Jane Wagner, for which Tomlin won a Tony Award. She was also nominated for an Academy Award for her turn as Linnea Reese in Robert Altman’s Nashville, played recurring roles on TV shows from Murphy Brown to The West Wing, and has won six Emmys, a Grammy, and a Lifetime Achievement Tony Award in 1977. Tomlin, who has called Wagner the most influential person in her life and career, narrated 1995’s landmark LGBT documentary The Celluloid Closet. –KL
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Hats off to the 100 Women We Love, class of 2008 (in no particular order, ’cause we love ’em all!).
Katherine Acey
“The work I do at Astraea supports groups refusing to accommodate an unjust reality,” says Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice Executive Director Katherine Acey. Acey has been with Astraea for 19 years and involved in feminist/progressive philanthropy for 25. Astraea’s mission involves funding lesbian-led, trans, LGBTI and progressive organizations. Through-out the years, Acey has been honored by the Women’s Funding Network for her leadership in building a multi-cultural women’s funding movement, as well as by The Funding Exchange, Cross Cultural Black Women’s Studies Institute and the NYC National Organization for Women. From her beloved 30 year home base of Brooklyn, she travels the globe, enlightening the world on issues of philanthropy, sexuality, race and class. –JB
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