[1][5] After being threatened with shock therapy, she left, with the help of her father, and went instead to a Johns Hopkins University psychiatrist who drugged her in an attempt to cure her lesbianism.
[5] In 1971, Kady Van Deurs, encouraged by her friend and fellow activist, Diana Davies (photographer) attended the first ever "Gay Rights March on Albany" which kickstarted her lesbian activism.
[1] In her work as an activist, Van Deurs was arrested and served time for protesting including at the Seneca Women's Encampment for a Future of Peace and Justice in 1983.
[4] Cindy Stein, of Gay Community News (Boston), described her autobiography stating that "Kady taught me how important each one of our lives, as lesbians, as women, is to the rest of us.
"[11] Anita Leibowitz Page, of Feminist Review, wrote "The autobiography of this lesbian-feminist-anarchist-letter writer and journal keeper, ex-cab driver and ex-Quaker, silversmith, friend of racoons and axe-maker to the Queen—is funny and sad and utterly compelling in its energy and fullness.