Roundtable: The Lesbian Toaster
Everyone on staff tells me WITHOUT LOOKING where they think the lesbian toaster thing came from.
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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!
Queer Folklore: M Is for Macha, Mythical Irish Queens of Misandry
Moral of the story: don’t be a dick to pregnant people. Obviously. You shouldn’t need a morality tale to tell you this.
16 Lesbian Power Couples From History Who Got Shit Done, Together
Just some low-key relationship goals for ya.
Queer Folklore: The Morrigan Is A Goddess for Protest
The Morrigan has always seemed wildly queer to me. The sort of army boot-wearing femme-butch blend who uses the word “dyke” like a clenched fist aimed at the patriarchy.
“When We Rise” Is What The World Needs Now, Especially You
ABC has dedicated eight primetime hours to a sweeping miniseries charting LGBT history from the ’70s ’til a few years ago and it’s pretty great except for the bad wigs.
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.
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.”
VIDEO: It’s A Cold And It’s A Broken Hallelujah
Kate McKinnon’s cold open on tonight’s Saturday Night Live wasn’t funny at all, but it was something else.
How Olivia Became The Most Successful Lesbian Business Of All Time
Financial independence from the patriarchy was a primary goal of lesbian feminism, because true liberation required not relying on men for anything, including money. It’s a tricky thing to pull off now and was even harder back then. But, somehow, Olivia did it.
38 Lesbian Magazines That Burned Brightly, Died Hard, Left A Mark
AfterEllen is a part of a legacy of brilliant publications created by passionate lesbian, queer and bisexual women that unfortunately no longer exist, but were cool for a while.
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!