Edith Windsor, Lesbian Trailblazer Who Changed Your Life, Has Died
Gay rights pioneer Edith Windsor died today in Manhattan. She was 88 years old.
Herstory
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!
26 Triumphantly ’90s Lesbian Book Covers
What a colorful decade for us all!
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.
41 Super-Hot Butches and Tomboys of the Early 20th Century
Just a little vintage eye candy for you.
Fill In Your Butch History With This Coloring Book
Why learn about butch lesbian herstory when you can learn about butch lesbian herstory by way of babes?
“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…?”
6 Queer Women Literally Saving the World Through Environmental Justice
To solve today’s environmental issues, we need new voices, preferably voices from different parts of the population than we’ve heard from in years past. Let’s hear from some queer women rocking environmental justice.
For Your Consideration: A Topless Duel Between Noblewomen in 1897
Then, as now, a certain sort of man was fascinated by these so-called petticoat duels, and The Illustrated Police News, Britain’s first tabloid and official worst newspaper, liked to report on them in full. With pictures.
5 Women From Mythology You Should Totally Date
Hatshepsut is the original Mommi
Roundtable: The Lesbian Toaster
Everyone on staff tells me WITHOUT LOOKING where they think the lesbian toaster thing came from.
Lesbian Bar Names of the Past, Ranked
RIP sweet girls.
You Should Go: Brush Up Your ’90s Activist History with Lesbians to Watch Out For
The history and art exhibit opens tonight and runs through June 30 at Plummer Park in West Hollywood. Zines! Avengers! Arrests! Street resistance! And a grassroots organizing panel!
Queer Folklore: Athena and Hestia Bring the Asexuality to Olympus
The Ancient Greek pantheon, though upsettingly low on the lady loving women considering the rampant male bisexuality going on, does has a surprising wealth of asexual and aromantic goddesses.
10 Very Gay Excerpts from Vita and Virginia’s Love Letters
The lives (and affair) of Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West is coming to the big screen this year. Here are some of the gayest things they wrote to one another.
Let’s Talk About Dionysus, Genderqueer God of Partying and Pride
If you want a god of sex, wine and smashing the gender binary into little tiny pieces you might want to try Dionysus.
12 Lesbian Resorts You Could Visit This Summer If You Have A Time Machine
Hot women-only hotels, resorts and cabins to check out in Ohio, New Jersey, Florida, Oregon, Palm Springs, Delaware, Key West and Montana — just be sure to check in before 1998.
Artemis Is the Queer Girl Goddess BFF of Your Dreams
The mythology has her securing a promise of perpetual “virginity” from her father and immediately skipping off into the mountain forests with a group of like-minded nymphs. Together she and her women hiked, swam, lived off the land and viciously murdered any man who walked in on them naked.
21 Unintentionally Gay Vintage Newspaper Clippings That I Wish Were Gay For Real
If only they knew, back then, what “butch” and “queer” might mean today…
How to Become a Deadly Misandrist Fairy Vampire
Even one cauldron full of blood is one cauldron we didn’t have before!