Edith Eyde

Lisa Ben is a pseudonym (anagram of lesbian) for Edith Eyde, a writer, editor, and gay rights activist. She wrote one of the first gay utopias, in Vice Versa, the first lesbian journal in the US; it was published in nine bimonthly issues, from 1947 to 1948.

• "New Year's Revolution", published in Jan. 1948 issue of Vice Versa, included a gay utopia visited in a dream

References

• Gaysweek, New York, No. 49, 1978 Jan. 23, interview with Leland Moss and Lisa Ben