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“Hollywood Lesbians”: This 1994 Interview Book Valiantly Attempted To Out Over 31 Legendary Ladies
“Numerous Hollywood actresses — Garbo, Gish, Dietrich, Jean Arthur, um, Kay Francis, Stanwyck, Bankhead, Del Rio, Janet Gaynor, etc., etc., — have enjoyed lesbian or bi relationships. Have you ever…?”
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The Gay Love Stories of Moomin and the Queer Radicality of Tove Jansson
For too long, Tove Jansson’s lesbianism has been ignored or written out of history. But scratch the surface, and the true impact of her queerness on her work becomes apparent.
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18 Lesbian Power Couples From History Who Made Really Great Art For You
These are the ladies who made kickass sculptures, movies, music, children’s books, regular grown-up-books and, of course, wrote fabulous, sick, neurotic, tortured love poems to one another.
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38 Lesbian and Bisexual Women From History Who Did That Thing First
What do the first Chinese-American filmmaker, the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and the first woman to wear man-tailored shorts at Wimbledon all have in common? They had romantic feelings about other women, just like you!
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16 Lesbian Power Couples From History Who Got Shit Done, Together
Just some low-key relationship goals for ya.
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9 Lesbian and Trans Women Activists In the Spotlight Of “When We Rise”
Summaries of the historical events chronicled in “When We Rise” and background on some of the incredible women portrayed in this historical miniseries, debuting tomorrow on ABC.
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The Lesbian or Bisexual Heiress: 22 Women Who Had It Made, In Theory
From Winnaretta Singer to Nats Getty, you’ll learn so much in this post and even meet another Mountbatten!
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Swords, Satan and Sexuality: Queer Nuns of the Past
“Somehow convincing the convent that she genuinely wanted to take holy orders Julie entered the nunnery with her girlfriend. Around a month in an elder nun died of natural causes and the two of them saw their chance; putting the dead nun in the girlfriend’s bed they set the nunnery on fire and ran off into the night.”
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24 Very Gay Excerpts from Eleanor Roosevelt’s Love Letters with Lorena Hickok
“Most clearly I remember your eyes with a kind of teasing smile in them, and the feeling of that soft spot just northeast of the corner of your mouth against my lips.”
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Kitty Genovese’s Murder: Everything You Know About The “38 Bystanders” Is Wrong
The alleged behavior of witnesses to the 1963 murder of Kitty Genovese, a lesbian barmaid who lived in Queens with her girlfriend, inspired the concept of “the bystander effect.” The only problem is that the story of the 38 apathetic bystanders isn’t even remotely true.
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12 Women They Didn’t Tell You Were Queer In History Class
Really unclear why we didn’t spend at least one semester reading Emily Dickinson’s love letters to her girlfriend.
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Rebel Girls: Meet (Some Of) the Gal Pals of the Suffrage Movement
We’ve broadly written off intense and deep relationships between these fearless suffrage leaders as “friendships” for years, but it’s worth considering what we’re erasing when we do.
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100+ LGBTQ Black Women You Should Know: The Epic Black History Month Megapost
This epic megapost is your glorious opportunity to meet more than 100 amazing black LGBT women who’ve made their mark over the last 150 years.
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Epic Gallery: 150 Years Of Lesbians And Other Lady-Loving-Ladies
Photographs of lesbian, bisexual and otherwise-identified women, 1850-1999. Seriously this is really cool.