Euan Bear
Euan Bear was the editor of Out in the Mountains from 2002 to 2006. She was born in New Hampshire and graduated from Colby College in Waterville, Maine, where she co-founded (in 1974) Maine’s second gay and lesbian student organization. Euan moved to Vermont in 1977. She was a member of the editorial committee of CommonWomon and wrote and edited for the Vermont Vanguard Press. She is an activist for all women, lesbians, gay men, bisexual and transgender persons, plus queer and questioning and nonbinary people.
We just, we were there in solidarity with each other. We just decided we weren't going to take harassment anymore, that we weren't going to be ashamed anymore. I mean, a lot of us had already decided that, but this was the public statement of it, you know, and and so, we walked. And so we walked and we carried signs and banners. Don't ask me, I don't remember. And drums and cowbells and, you know, it was just, it was just so important to be out there and I have to confess to a little bit of sort of out of body experience during during some of it. It was just all sort of overwhelming to be out there in this way. And it was early days. It was early days.
I remember. I think we might have gathered at the Unitarian Church and walked down Pearl Street and then down Battery and up College Street to the City Hall Park and. As I remember the speakers being on the back steps of City Hall.
It was Women Helping Battered Women. You know, and there was Women Against Rape. And those were the two biggest, you know, most active, most visible ones. And there were the newspapers. There was Commonwomon, you know. And, it just that those were all things that were primarily founded and run by lesbians.