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Behind a locked gate whose security code is changed frequently, the women pursue quiet lives in a community they call Alapine, largely unnoticed by their Bible Belt neighbors - a lost tribe from the early '70s era of communes and radical feminism.
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These days, she and other members worry about the future of Alapine, which is one of about 100 below-the-radar lesbian communities in North America, known as womyn's lands (their preferred spelling), whose guiding philosophies date from a mostly bygone era.
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EXTINCTION - Deep in the hinterlands of Florida is a magical place known as Alapine, where men are not allowed and women (er, 'womyn') name their chickens after the Golden Girls.
Queerty 2009
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The women at Alapine have agreed that they want to remain a lesbian-only community.
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At Alapine, the development corporation owned by three women who started the earlier women's community in Florida sells plots to individual owners.
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The name of the community is Alapine and here's the heart of the story:
GetReligion 2009
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She and other Alapine women described leading double lives when they were younger, playing the role of straight women in jobs and even marriages.
GetReligion 2009
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BEHIND the gate at Alapine, about five miles from the nearest town in the southern Appalachian mountains near Georgia, the women live in simple houses or double-wide trailers on roads they have named after goddesses, like Diana Drive.
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Winnie Adams, 66, who describes herself as a "radical feminist separatist lesbian," sold her house in Florida in 1999 to move to Alapine.
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Both women, who like most of the others at Alapine were once married and had children, said they were deeply scarred by their experiences.
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