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Without being pedantic, I felt the need to educate and fill in certain gaps of history.

Leslie Cohen: Actually, I started thinking about writing this story back in 2009, after I retired from practicing law. Why was now the right time to write your story? Gregg Shapiro: Leslie, I thoroughly enjoyed reading your memoir, The Audacity of a Kiss. Cohen, who has called Miami for nearly 30 years, was good enough to make time for an interview in advance of the publication of the book.īeth Suskin and Leslie Cohen (Source: Donna Victor)

These are just some of the subjects you can read about in The Audacity of a Kiss. The reasons for that are numerous, including Cohen's experiences in the art world as well as her partnership in one of the first woman-owned (read: non-mafia) lesbian bars in New York City.īut perhaps it is the way that Cohen and her wife Beth have been preserved in bronze (with a coat of white paint) by sculptor George Segal in his celebrated Gay Liberation sculpture in Christopher Park across from the Stonewall Inn, that separates her story from the rest. But one memoir, in particular, stands out, and that's The Audacity of a Kiss: Love, Art and Liberation (Rutgers University Press, 2021) by Leslie Cohen. These days there doesn't appear to be any shortage of memoirs, especially by LGBTQ writers, with Lauren Hough's Leaving Isn't the Hardest Part and Precious Bradley Davis' I Have Always Been Me as recent examples.