‘The Lives They Lived’ Includes Sally Ride And Other Legendary Queers
The exhaustive list of legends lost in 2012 includes many American artists and scientists, as well as one Costa Rican you’ve probably never heard of (but will be glad you did).
Astraea, A Lesbian Foundation for Justice: The Autostraddle Interview
“I know that there are many groups who we fund that if we didn’t they simply wouldn’t exist, they would close. There is dire need for the resources we provide.”
Top 10 Most Amazing Things That Happened Because Hillary Clinton Was Secretary of State
9. The Playing Of Funky Music By White Boys and Other Humans Specifically For Hillary Clinton’s Grooves and Enjoyment
Idol Worship: Pop-Art Icon Edie Sedgwick
Edie is proof that anyone can be an icon. Just ask Andy Warhol.
Idol Worship: Ten(ish) Questions with Eileen Myles
“Recently I wrote a poem on the notebook on my iPhone on the subway platform. I like to move around.”
You Should Go: Lesbian Herstory Archives Marathon Reading – Audre Lorde and Adrienne Rich
Come celebrate the lives of two women whose “work and presence as poets, theorists, activists and teachers inspired decades of anti-racist, feminist, and lesbian feminist thought and activism.”
Herstory Live: The Lesbian Avengers School You On Their Ass-Kicking Roots
“We didn’t chain ourselves to anything, or clash with cops. We stood outside an elementary school in Queens as open dykes, and gave balloons to school kids.”
10 Amazing Lady Explorers Who Aren’t Columbus
Happy Way Less Problematic Explorer Day, everyone!
Epic Gallery: 150 Years Of Lesbians And Other Lady-Loving-Ladies
Photographs of lesbian, bisexual and otherwise-identified women, 1850-1999. Seriously this is really cool.
Our Legacy: Six Lesbian Magazines From The Then Before Now
“No woman ever made a dime for her work, and some … worked themselves into a state of mental and physical decline on behalf of the magazine.”
“June and Nancy” Reminds Us What It Was Like to Be An American Lesbian in 1958
“The stageplay is the lesbian equivalent of a Mad Men affair, but with less misogyny and so much more at stake.”
Jewelle Gomez, Lesbian Trailblazer: The Autostraddle Interview
“There was a great heyday in the 80’s in which I felt like you could publish anything, you could say anything – any of the initials, L, G, B, or T.”
Sally Ride Is Dead
Sally Ride, a lesbian, the first American woman in space and one of my childhood heroes, died today at the age of 61.
Ladies of Note: A Brief History of Women Composers, Queer and Otherwise
You know about Bach, Mozart and Beethoven, but what about the women who wrote classical music?
Stonewall, As It Seemed Then: The Advocate Remembers Best
Carmen’s Team Pick: “‘Don’t you know that these people have no place to go and need a place like that bar?’ she shouted.”
Six Ways that 1950s Butches and Femmes F*cked with Society, Were Badass
“Butches & Femmes paved the way for tons of fantastic lesbians, radical queers, revolutionary feminists, and really awful (and awesome) hairstyles that came after them.”
Queering The Library: Collecting Downtown, Riot Grrrl, Feminism & You
Vanessa chats with Marvin J. Taylor about Kathleen Hanna, Kathy Acker, lesbian comics, secret lesbians of early Hollywood and other fascinating secrets uncovered at Fales.
6 Special Ideas About What Lesbian Sex Is, 1900-1953
“From midday until 2 pm, during the hours of greatest heat, when all are in this condition and the mistress falls asleep on the sofa… all the girls, without one exception, masturbate themselves.”
15 Awesomely Named Yet Totally Defunct Lesbian Bars Of America
Whatever happened to the way we used to be, Meow Mix and Mother’s Brew, Push and Wetherbee’s?
The Ladies Of Llangollen: Runaway Romantics In 18th Century Ireland
The story of two women who escaped their homes in the middle of the night, lived in a castle and loved each other for over 50 years.