Deborah Edel

Deborah Edel (born June 23, 1944) is an American activist, archivist, and psychologist.

She had one brother, Matthew, and after her mother's death in 1964, her father remarried philosopher Elizabeth Flower.

[3] In 1974, she and her partner, Joan Nestle, started the Lesbian Herstory Archives after being inspired by a women's consciousness raising group of the Gay Academic Union.

[5] The collection was moved to a brownstone in Park Slope in 1993 after it became too large for the apartment.

[6] Nestle and Edel gave a presentation on the Lesbian Herstory Archives at the controversial 1982 Barnard Conference on Sexuality.