Results for: meet up
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More Than Words: Notes On (A-)Camp
Sideways oxen, promiscuous Protestants, Susan Sontag and now us.
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Real Life Late-90s Lesbian Spaces in the South Where the Drive-Away Dolls Could Have Stopped
Being from Florida, I know how easy it is for the history of queer and trans people to be lost to time, and I think it’s an important part of our fight for liberation to buck against that where and when we can.
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Eleven Women of Color You Should Know and Admire
Women who inspired us, gave us a vocabulary and taught us how to be ourselves.
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More Than Words: Amped For Camp
Are all camp-related words fun to say? Maybe.
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The History of the Color Purple Kiss
In 1982 Alice Walker wrote a Black queer text so ahead of its time, that 40 years later we’re still fighting to catch up.
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Daisy Jones & the Six Offers a Stunning Tribute to Black Queer Love, Freedom, and Disco
Bernie is a 1970s stud in the finest form. All eyelashes and a buttery voice that could make any femme blush. Simone never stood a chance.
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Why Do Lesbian Bars Keep Disappearing?
There are so many myths about why lesbian bars close and/or don’t survive.
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We Should Engage With LGBTQ History All Damn Year
OutWrite: The Speeches That Shaped LGBTQ Literary Culture perfectly exemplifies the reasons why it’s so imperative to look back at history with the willingness to be impacted by whatever we learn.
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Marika Cifor Wants You To Activate Your Nostalgia for ACT UP
Marika Cifor’s new book Viral Cultures: Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS explores how LGBTQ and HIV/AIDS archives shape our understanding of history.
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What Mattee Jim, Navajo Trans Elder, Teaches Us About Remembering
This #TransDayOfRemembrance, trans lives are more than a list of names. We are vessels of ancestral memory.
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The Public Universal Friend: A Deep Dive on a Story of Nonbinary Identity, Quakerism and Near-Death Experiences
The Public Universal Friend is just one example of how, even in the binarist West, non-binary people have always existed.
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Lesbian and Bisexual Women of History Who Were Obsessed with Their Dogs, Part 4
We’re back for a barely conceivable fourth installment looking at the big dogs, little dogs and doggy dogs of more lesbian and bisexual women of history who were obsessed with them!
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The True Story Behind ACT UP and Sandra Bernhard’s Character on “Pose”
I realized that even though I’d vaguely heard or read about the lesbians of ACT UP, I didn’t really know enough about the specifics. Who were these women? What was their history?
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All Bones and Blood and Breath: Remembering Barbara Hammer
Barbara Hammer was the evidence that living a queer life could be good, and long, and full of wonder at a time when I felt like this was all was out of reach.
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Total ’90s Lesbian Trivia Quiz
Test your ’90s lesbian/bisexual pop culture knowledge right here, right now.
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The Rumors Were Enough: Josephine Baker, Frida Kahlo, Their Romance and Me
Maybe Josephine Baker and Frida Kahlo were actually lovers? Maybe they weren’t. What always mattered most was the idea that they even could.
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The Lesbian Herstory Archives Guard Our Past, Give Us Hope for Our Future
The weekend Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed to the Supreme Court, I visited the Lesbian Herstory Archives and spent the day with coordinators Maxine and Saskia to learn about our past and draw strength in the present.
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Holigay Gift Guide: For Queer Radicals, Trans Revolutionaries, and Menacing Lesbians
The age-old challenge: what to get for your rad, free-thinking, take-no-BS, burn down the cisheteropatriarchy, revolutionary friend or loved one? Capitalism sucks. These gifts don’t!
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Lesbian and Bisexual Women of History Who Were Obsessed With Their Dogs, Part 1
If you’ve been waiting your whole life to find people in history that really reflect who you are, today is that day! We’re examining the many ways gay, bisexual, queer and other unquantifiably not-straight women have built lasting, meaningful and downright obsessive relationships with their canine friends over the years.
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Raging Against Cultural Amnesia: tatiana de la tierra and Latina Lesbian Herstory
In the 90s, a collective of Latina lesbians founded two radical, bilingual zines. They made culture, connected activists, and scared the sh*t out of the patriarchy.