Getting blue.(Orientation: dispatches from the editors)(Advertisement) From: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbiannewsmagazine) | Date: February 3, 2004| Author: Davis, Lisa | COPYRIGHT 2004 Liberation Publications, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Blue jeans more so than blue stockings are in evidence virtually any night of the week at Bluestockings, a lesbian cafe-activist center on New York's Lower East Side. The establishment derives its name from radical 18th century women's literary gatherings (blue worsted stockings were worn by a pioneering male proponent). Although anything from a postcard art show to a lecture by a feminist from Afghanis...