The LGBTQ press has long been committed to documenting and resisting homophobia and transphobia. This is particularly true at the local level: By reporting on local news, politics, art, and events, LGBTQ reporters use media as a tool to expose and fight back against right wing politics.
What happens when you pack 700 lesbians in blazers into an academic conference in New York City?
One of our most influential and remarkable trans queer elders — Miss Major Griffin-Gracy — has died at the age of 78.
“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.”
These magazines provided critical representation for trans and gender expansive individuals across the United States who saw themselves represented in their pages.
The desire to connect with other people like us has been the driving force of queer media since the first lesbian print magazine ever launched in 1947. Here are just 50 of the many publications that built the community we hold so dear.
In this much-anticipated follow-up to “12 Monumental Moments In Lesbian Blazer-Wearing History” we are narrowing our focus onto one key subject in 90s blazer history: Rosie O’Donnell.
Ft. Lauderdale Beach was home to the first explicitly gay beach resort in U.S. history.
London Friend’s Lesbian Line, which opened in 1989 and closed in 1999, was one of many gay and lesbian phone lines across the UK.
Shot on a mix of consumer-grade recording devices — iPhone, Zoom, VHS camcorder, and Super-8 film — the documentary is an homage to grassroots AIDS mediamaking across decades and its ability to capture intimate, honest communication about hope and loss.
Thirty years after Stonewall (1995), there still hasn’t been a film that meaningfully captures this major LGBTQ+ historical event.
On Our Backs, which originally ran from 1984 to 1990 and was revitalized from 1998 to 2002, existed for one central purpose: to portray lesbian sex and sexuality, with real lesbians.
For nearly 50 years, queer activists kissed each other as a form of protest.
Slapping Leather addresses how the idealized white masculine cowboy has always been a myth.
Michael’s arrest and his subsequent public coming out shook pop culture for months in ways that I can only now fully understand.
“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 pop stars on the radio. Finding another lesbian, another queer person, was always a victory.”
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.
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 rumors about a members-only club called Gateways tucked away in a hidden corner of the city.
The line from Elizabeth Taylor to Chappell Roan’s iconic blue eyeshadow is actually pretty direct.
Through the Lesbian Herstory Archives, Noor Aldayeh is making space for queer Palestinians to tell their own stories.