艾尔莎·吉德洛

艾尔莎·吉德洛是一位英国出生的加拿大裔美国诗人、自由撰稿人、哲学家和人道主义者。她最著名的作品是《On a Grey Thread》（1923），这是北美第一卷公开发表的女同性恋情诗集。在1950年代，吉德洛帮助创立了德鲁伊高地社区，这是一个位于加利福尼亚州马林县的波西米亚社区。她共写作了13本书籍，并在纪录片《Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives》（1977）中以自己的身份出现。她去世前完成了自传《Elsa, I Come with My Songs》（1986），讲述了她的生平故事。这是第一部完整揭示作者身份并没有使用化名的女同性恋自传。

Elsa Gidlow was a British-born, Canadian-American poet, freelance journalist, philosopher and humanitarian. She is best known for writing On a Grey Thread (1923), the first volume of openly lesbian love poetry published in North America. In the 1950s, Gidlow helped found Druid Heights, a bohemian community in Marin County, California. She was the author of thirteen books and appeared as herself in the documentary film, Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives (1977). Completed just before her death, her autobiography, Elsa, I Come with My Songs (1986), recounts her life story. It is the first complete-life, lesbian autobiography published where the author "outs" herself and does not employ a pseudonym.