Filmmaker Recalls Sally Gearhart: 'She Helped Change the World, and Also Changed Those of Us in Her World' - San Francisco Bay Times
By Deborah Craig– Sally Gearhart was a toweringly brilliant woman I encountered quite by accident. I teach Public Health at SF State and am a filmmaker too. While helping LGBTQ public health expert Mickey Eliason with a study of lesbian health, I met so many perceptive and funny women that I began a short documentary about lesbians and aging. Mickey’s collaborator Penny Sablove mentioned an octogenarian she knew still living on women’s land in Northern California and cutting her own firewood with a chainsaw. Naturally, I zoomed up to meet her. At this point, I knew little about Sally ot...
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