# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joan-nestle
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:36:40.707Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joan-nestle"
name: "Joan Nestle"
slug: "joan-nestle"
description: "Joan Nestle is a Lambda Award-winning writer and editor and a founder of the Lesbian Herstory Archives. She is openly lesbian and sees her work of archival work as critical to her identity as \"a woman, as a lesbian, and as a Jew.\""
tagline: "American writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Joan_Nestle_for_%C5%A0kuc_LL.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1940-05-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.28
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.830636
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://joannestle.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Joan Nestle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جوان نستله"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Joan Nestle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Nestle"
    title: "Joan Nestle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Nestle"
    title: "Joan Nestle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Nestle"
    title: "Joan Nestle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%92'%D7%95%D7%90%D7%9F_%D7%A0%D7%A1%D7%9C"
    title: "ג'ואן נסל"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Joan Nestle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Nestle"
    title: "Joan Nestle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Несле, Джоан"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Joan Nestle"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q545322"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump