While shooting A Great Ride in 2014, Craig found an 80-something year-old Gearhart living alone with her dog on a ramshackle rural property that was once the women’s colony Women’s Land. Deborah Craig, 2018), a short doc about radical, queer women’s experiences of aging that showed in SDFF 20. SDFF audiences may remember her as the sharp-witted, spirited woman who steals the show in A Great Ride (Dir. Northern California lesbian luminary, author, activist and scholar, Sally Gearhart, passed away on July 14 at the age of 90. –Sally Miller Gearhart, Small Town Girl Gets Bigger “More and more frequently I bless the people that others have called my ‘enemy’ or ‘unacceptable’ or ‘crazy,’ for it is the presence of such people in my life that has whetted my hunger for diversity and led me to the knowledge that, in the end as in the beginning, Love is the universal truth lying at the heart of all creation.
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