Alix Dobkin, who celebrated lesbian life in music, dies at 80

Alix Dobkin, an outspoken folk singer who celebrated women in general and lesbians in particular, making music history in 1973 when she released “Lavender Jane Loves Women,” generally considered the first full-length album by, for and about lesbians, died May 19 at her home in Woodstock, N.Y. She was 80.

The cause was a brain aneurysm and stroke, her family announced.