Can You Name These Historic Lesbian Couples and Other Gal Pals Through the Years?
Which pair of extremely close female friends decided to “marry” each other in 1844?
Herstory
Fill In Your 50s, 60s, and 70s Butch History With This Coloring Book
Why learn about butch lesbian herstory in the 50s, 60s and 70s when you can learn about butch lesbian herstory by looking at babes?
British Suffragette History: Come for the Democracy, Stay for the Lesbian Drama
If you’re wondering why it’s important to believe these suffragettes were sleeping with every other suffragette, it’s because they were. I made you a chart.
Here’s the Badass Lesbian, Bisexual, and Trans Activist Herstory Quiz You Wish You Had in School
Get out your Sharpie markers and flattened cardboard boxes because it’s time to get activist-y AF!
Here’s How You Scored On ’90s Lesbian Trivia
What did everybody know… and when did you have no idea?
Total ’90s Lesbian Trivia Quiz
Test your ’90s lesbian/bisexual pop culture knowledge right here, right now.
“Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History” by Vashti Harrison Is the Black Herstory I Needed as a Child
“Close your eyes and imagine for one moment a world where little black girls spend their entire childhoods seeing women like the ones they will become in just as many books, television shows, awards ceremonies, universities, political offices, magazines, advertisements and leadership positions as their white peers do. Really picture it, and then ask yourself: what would that future look like?”
Lavender Menace Gift Guide: For Passionate Feminist Lesbians and Herstorical Queers
Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians. Happy holidays!
BREAKING: Olivia Wyndham and Edna Thomas Are In Love and It’s F*cking Adorable
That one dance with a woman, Edna gasped, “made me know I was a homosexual.”
It’s the Season of the Witch and Hekate, Goth-as-Hell Goddess of Outcast Women
Hekate is the goddess of outcast women and taking power where you find it.
Thank You Jeanne Córdova, Love Autostraddle Dot Com
We’re closing out LGBT History Month with Jeanne Córdova — a legendary publisher and activist who died last year and included Autostraddle as one of many beneficiaries of her estate, which is why we didn’t lose our minds this year.
22 Lesbian, Bisexual and Trans Women Athletes Who Changed the Game
Women athletes who came out before very recently risked everything to do so: their endorsements, their fans, their spots on their teams, their livelihoods, and sometimes even their own lives. Here are 22 lesbian, bisexual and trans women athletes who changed their games and changed the game for LGBTQ people by choosing to live openly.
Our Sex Is Good: Kink Writing in the 1980s–1990s
How two 1970s and 1980s lesbian BDSM books changed the national conversation around feminism, lesbianism, and kink.
BREAKING: Alleged Murder Thrusts Actress Libby Holman Back into Loving Arms of Heiress Ex-Girlfriend and We’re So Here For It
When you’re a Broadway starlet indicted for the murder of your wealthy young boyfriend even though it was a suicide, who’re you gonna call? Your wealthy ex-girlfriend!
BREAKING: Natalie Barney and Liane de Pougy Break Up Because Amour Is a Lie
We could hardly believe it was real, and now we can hardly believe that it’s over.
BREAKING: Is Charlotte Cushman Cheating On Her Wife Emma With Her Gal Pal Emma?
Charlotte Cushman is at it again!
LGBTQ History Month Starts Now: An Epic Autostraddle Reading List
It’s LGBT History Month, a month-long annual observance of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender history, a topic which is near and dear to our hearts because it is definitely NOT near OR dear to the hearts of anybody in charge of public education.
18 Influential Lesbian & Bisexual Jewish Women To Remember Today
Some very cool ladies to remember in all that we do
Edith Windsor, Lesbian Trailblazer Who Changed Your Life, Has Died
Gay rights pioneer Edith Windsor died today in Manhattan. She was 88 years old.
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!