Norah Vincent

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Norah Vincent is an American journalist and author, known for being a conservative lesbian.^[1]

Vincent was a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, one of several neoconservative think tanks in the United States, from its 2001 inception^[1] to 2003.^{[citation needed]} She has also had columns at Salon.com^[2], The Advocate^[3], the Los Angeles Times^[4], and the Village Voice^[5].

Vincent's most recent book, Self-Made Man, retells an eighteen-month experiment in which she disguised herself as a male.^[6] She talked about it in HARDtalk extra on BBC on April 21, 2006 and described her experiences in male-male and male-female relationships. She joined an all-male bowling club, joined a men's therapy group, went to strip clubs and visited Catholic monks in a cloister. She dated women and describes how inferior she felt, when judged by women during flirting: the harsh way in which many women pre-judged her, assuming all men to be essentially the same, turned her, albeit briefly, into a "temporary misogynist", seeing as most women never can the failings of her own sex from the other side^{[citation needed]}. Vincent writes about how the only time she has ever been considered excessively feminine was during her stint as a man: her alter-ego, Ned, was assumed to be gay on several occasions, and features which in her as a woman had been seen as "butch" became oddly effeminate when seen in a man. Vincent asserts that, since the experiment, she has never been more glad to be female.

[edit] References

^ ^a Independent Gay Forum: Norah Vincent. URL accessed 20 February 2006.
^ A Self-Made Man: Woman Goes Undercover to Experience Life as a man, ABC news, 20 January 2006. URL accessed 20 February 2006.
^ Norah Vincent at Salon.com. URL accessed 20 February 2006.
^ "Last Word," The Advocate, issue 903.
^ Vincent, Norah (2001). "Getting a Grip Is All We Can Do," the Los Angeles Times, October 25.
^ Vincent, Norah (2001). "Higher Ed," Village Voice, February 6. URL accessed 20 February 2006.