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Stormé and Diana: The Love Story (Almost) Lost to History

I knew Stormé DeLarverie as my gay father, and I knew her partner, Diana, as my gay mother. This is…

Christy Henderson Jenkins and Faith Reidenbach

May 19, 2026

Slapping Leather Queer Cowfolx at the Rodeo

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A New History of Gay Rodeos Explores How Cowboys Have Always Been Queer

Slapping Leather addresses how the idealized white masculine cowboy has always been a myth.

Lauren Herold

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Jan 9, 2025

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Remember When They Arrested George Michael for Being Gay?

Michael’s arrest and his subsequent public coming out shook pop culture for months in ways that I can only now fully understand.

Stef Rubino

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Nov 11, 2024

lesbians putting together a magazine on the floor

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How A 50-Year-Old Lesbian Magazine Is Surviving Despite It All

“Lesbian Connection was founded in a decidedly pre-internet era, when there were no lesbian characters on TV or in the movies, no lesbian stories on library bookshelves, no out queer…

Sydney

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Nov 4, 2024

December 1972 issue of UpFront Magazine out of Pensacola, Florida

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Invisible Histories Won’t Let You Leave the Queer South Behind

Collectively, the states that make up the South are home to more Black people, more people of color, and more LGBTQ people than any other region of this country.

Stef Rubino

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Aug 30, 2024

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I Long for the Queer Secret Spaces of the Past

Dream with me, if you will. It’s the mid-1960s, and you and your queer friends are looking for some place to go to meet others like you when you hear…

Stef Rubino

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Aug 14, 2024

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A Queer History of Blue Eyeshadow, Pop Culture’s Time-Honored Symbolic Hue

The line from Elizabeth Taylor to Chappell Roan’s iconic blue eyeshadow is actually pretty direct.

Nico

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Aug 8, 2024

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The Revolution Will Be Archived

Through the Lesbian Herstory Archives, Noor Aldayeh is making space for queer Palestinians to tell their own stories.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

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Jul 4, 2024

collage of Sarah Paulson and Cherry Jones, Ione Skye and Jenny Shimizu, Leisha Hailey and KD Lang, Sheryl Swoopes and Alisa "Scotty" Scott, Meshell Ndegeocello & Rebecca Walker, Raven-Symoné and AZMarie

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16 Lesbian Couples Time Forgot

The annals of sapphic gossip are deep and full — here’s 16 sapphic couples and love triangles that will bring you back in time or perhaps trigger memories of times…

Riese

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Jun 27, 2024

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LGBT History

Stormé and Diana: The Love Story (Almost) Lost to History

A New History of Gay Rodeos Explores How Cowboys Have Always Been Queer

Remember When They Arrested George Michael for Being Gay?

How A 50-Year-Old Lesbian Magazine Is Surviving Despite It All

Invisible Histories Won’t Let You Leave the Queer South Behind

I Long for the Queer Secret Spaces of the Past

A Queer History of Blue Eyeshadow, Pop Culture’s Time-Honored Symbolic Hue

The Revolution Will Be Archived

16 Lesbian Couples Time Forgot

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