Results for: love is a lie
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99 Years Ago, a Queer/Trans Magazine Was Born — Nine Years Later, Fascism Killed It
I am on my way to the Grimm Zentrum to see some originals of the early 20th century lesbian magazine Die Freundin.
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We Should Engage With LGBTQ History All Damn Year
OutWrite: The Speeches That Shaped LGBTQ Literary Culture perfectly exemplifies the reasons why it’s so imperative to look back at history with the willingness to be impacted by whatever we learn.
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“Mother Has Lived, What Can I Say?”
DonnaSue Johnson describes herself as a “big, black, beautiful, Bohemian, bougie, Buddhist butch.”
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54 Portraits of Lesbians in the ‘80s
We’ve always been here.
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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.
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Precious and Adored: Reading Victorian Love Letters, Writing Queer History
When Rose Cleveland and Evangeline Simpson met in 1890, they fell for each other hard. Their once-hidden letters are collected in a new book.
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The Rumors Were Enough: Josephine Baker, Frida Kahlo, Their Romance and Me
Maybe Josephine Baker and Frida Kahlo were actually lovers? Maybe they weren’t. What always mattered most was the idea that they even could.
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Escaping Eden: Finding Lilith in Queerness
Lilith after all has become a sign of every socially unacceptable aspect of women, including and especially our sexuality.
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18 Influential Lesbian & Bisexual Jewish Women To Remember Today
Some very cool ladies to remember in all that we do
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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.
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“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…?”
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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.
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Top 10 Most Sexually Prolific Lesbians and Bisexuals Of Old Hollywood
Think of it as “The Real L Word: Los Angeles 1900s-1950s Edition”
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105 Trans Women On American TV: A History and Analysis
Autostraddle walks you through the entire history of trans female characters on American television from 1965-2015.
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10 Theories About How Lesbians Have Sex From Straight People In History
“Probably the devil is involved”
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Rebel Girls: 7 Suffragists You Probably Didn’t Learn About in School
I wanted to take today’s lesson as an opportunity to totally school you on the suffrage comrades they didn’t teach you about in school, but there’s a ton, so I picked some of my favorites.
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21 Indications That This 1892 Teenage Murderess Was Insane, and By “Insane” I Mean “Gay”
“She was regarded as mentally wrong by young men.”
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Rebel Girls: The Illustrated (And Quite Condensed) History of Women’s Studies
Women’s studies. What the f*ck is that? And how the f*ck did it get that way? Let’s find out!
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15 Ladies Who Were Writing Sexy Lesbian Love Letters Before You Got Born
Before there was sexting, there was inserting obvious sexual metaphors into benign-looking letters and adding romantic overtones to keep it classy.
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More Than Words: So Androgynous
The word that gives “you do you” a whole new meaning.