Jill Johnston, Cultural Critic and Lesbian Firebrand, Dead at 81

At The Village Voice in the early 1960s, she chronicled New York’s exploding avant-garde performance scene. A decade later, she became a standard-bearer of the lesbian separatist movement, with her book Lesbian Nation and such notorious events as the kiss-in she and friends staged during a Town Hall debate on feminism chaired by a sputtering Norman Mailer.