# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/elsa-gidlow
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:53:12.966Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/elsa-gidlow"
name: "Elsa Gidlow"
slug: "elsa-gidlow"
description: "Elsa Gidlow was a British-born, Canadian-American poet, freelance journalist, philosopher and humanitarian. She is best known for writing On a Grey Thread (1923), the first volume of openly lesbian love poetry published in North America. In the 1950s, Gidlow helped found Druid Heights, a bohemian community in Marin County, California. She was the author of thirteen books and appeared as herself in the documentary film, Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives (1977). Completed just before her death, her autobiography, Elsa, I Come with My Songs (1986), recounts her life story. It is the first complete-life, lesbian autobiography published where the author \"outs\" herself and does not employ a pseudonym."
tagline: "Canadian-American poet (1898–1986)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Elsa_Gidlow-_Poet-Warrior_1981.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1898-12-29"
deathDate: "1986-06-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.85
  momentum:             0.3333333333333333
  historical:           7.493198666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
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    title: "ايلسا جيدلو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Elsa Gidlow"
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  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsa_Gidlow"
    title: "Elsa Gidlow"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsa_Gidlow"
    title: "Elsa Gidlow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsa_Gidlow"
    title: "Elsa Gidlow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Elsa_Gidlow"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump