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Jill Johnston came out a few months before the Stonewall riots in 1969 and lost no opportunity to flaunt her new sexual identity. In 1971 she caused a scandal at a public debate on feminism with Germaine Greer and Norman Mailer, when, after announcing that "all women are lesbians except those that don't know it yet," she was joined on stage by two women friends with whom she was soon to be seen rolling around the floor in simulated flagrante delicto. An appalled Mailer was reduced to begging impotently: "Come on, Jill, be a lady."In her book, Jill Johnston declared that it would take a radical "lesbian nation" to undermine the "Patriarchy" – the male-dominated system that oppressed all women. All women are born lesbians, she maintained, and those who slept with men were collaborating with the enemy.

-The Telegraph
Oct 7 2010