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Here’s How You Scored On ’90s Lesbian Trivia
What did everybody know… and when did you have no idea?
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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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16 Lesbian, Bisexual and Queer Instagram Accounts to Introduce You to Our Herstory
I want to devour everything that came before us so we can continue to grow better, brighter, louder, closer. These Instagram accounts are a great place to start.
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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!
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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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18 Influential Lesbian & Bisexual Jewish Women To Remember Today
Some very cool ladies to remember in all that we do
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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.”
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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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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!
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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!
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6 Queer Women Literally Saving the World Through Environmental Justice
To solve today’s environmental issues, we need new voices, preferably voices from different parts of the population than we’ve heard from in years past. Let’s hear from some queer women rocking environmental justice.
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Ain’t Afraid of No Ghosts: Talking to Ohio’s Queer Ghost Hunters About LGBT Hauntings and History
The all-LGBT ghost hunting team of Ohio tells us about their real-life ghost experiences, fighting heteronormativity in the afterlife, and what it’s like to talk to LGBT history with dowsing rods.
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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.”
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24 Very Gay Excerpts from Eleanor Roosevelt’s Love Letters with Lorena Hickok
“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.”
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We’ve Always Been Here: Honoring Bisexual History, Imagining Bisexual Futures
Historical texts often subsume bisexual activists into the Gay movement or ignore their contributions altogether. Recognizing the historical work of bisexual activists and movements is key to our continued struggle and survival, bi leaders say.
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12 Women They Didn’t Tell You Were Queer In History Class
Really unclear why we didn’t spend at least one semester reading Emily Dickinson’s love letters to her girlfriend.
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Rebel Girls: Meet (Some Of) the Gal Pals of the Suffrage Movement
We’ve broadly written off intense and deep relationships between these fearless suffrage leaders as “friendships” for years, but it’s worth considering what we’re erasing when we do.
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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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More Than Words: Dyke Pt. 2 — Dyke Dynasty
In which some Dykes on Bikes take on the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Start your engines.
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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.”