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Pat Parker (January 20, 1944 – June 19, 1989 Houston, Texas) was an African-American lesbian feminist poet.〔Bereano, Nancy K. Publisher's note, ''Movement in Black'', 1989, Crossing Press, ISBN 0-89594-113-9〕〔Pat Parker. Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2002. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale Group, 2008 (http://www.galenet.com/servlet/BioRC). Entry Updated : 25 July 2000 . Fee. Accessed 27 December 2008.〕 ==Early life== Parker grew up working class poor in Third Ward, Houston, Texas,〔Grahn, Judy. Preface, ''Movement in Black'', 1989, Crossing Press, ISBN 0-89594-113-9〕 a mostly African-American part of the city. Her mother (born Marie Louise Anderson) was a domestic worker, and her father, Ernest Nathaniel Cooks retreaded tires.〔〔De Veaux, Alexis. Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde, W. W. Norton & Company, 2004, ISBN 0-393-01954-3, pp166-167〕 When she was four years old, her family moved to Sunnyside, Houston, Texas.〔Cornwell, Anita. ''Pat Parker -- Black Lesbian Poet Radical Pioneer author of Movement in Black'', Hera Magazine, 1975, quoted in (A Muse )〕 She left home at seventeen, moved to Los Angeles, California, earning an undergraduate degree there at Los Angeles City College, and a graduate degree at San Francisco State College.〔 She got married (to playwright Ed Bullins) in 1962.〔〔(Alexander, Ilene 1998 )〕 Parker and Bullins separated after four years and she alluded to her ex-husband as physically violent, and said she was "scared to death of him".〔 She got married a second time, to Berkeley, California writer Robert F. Parker,〔〔Simon, John Oliver. ''Aldebaran Review'' in ''Berkeley Daze'', Big Bridge Press〕 but decided that the "idea of marriage... wasn't working" for her.〔 Parker began to identify as a lesbian in the late 1960s, and, in a 1975 interview with Anita Cornwell, stated that "after my first relationship with a woman, I knew where I was going."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pat Parker」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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