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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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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.
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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.
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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!
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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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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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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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10 Times These Fake Sociologists Marveled That Lesbian Femmes Exist
“These women are called femmes, and their appearance is often deceiving. They dress in clothing associated with wholly feminine women, and an uninitatied person would never suspect them of sexual deviation.”
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Kitty Genovese’s Murder: Everything You Know About The “38 Bystanders” Is Wrong
The alleged behavior of witnesses to the 1963 murder of Kitty Genovese, a lesbian barmaid who lived in Queens with her girlfriend, inspired the concept of “the bystander effect.” The only problem is that the story of the 38 apathetic bystanders isn’t even remotely true.
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26 Dreams Connie in “Voyage From Lesbos” Had About Genitalia, According to Her Doctor
“I dreamt I misplaced my pocketbook. When I turned around to retrieve it, I noticed a gay girl had run off with it.”
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Jeanne Córdova Dies At 67: Goodbye to the Activist and Writer Who Lead The Way We’re Going
“We built a movement by telling each other our lives and thoughts about the way life should be. We cut against the grain and re-thought almost everything. “
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10 First-Ever Lesbian Characters On American TV: Killers, Tramps, Thieves and Therapists
From lesbian gangs killing old ladies in a nursing home to actresses with Mommy issues to inspirational schoolteachers, these are ten of the first-ever lesbian characters on American primetime television, 1961-1977.
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21 More Lesbian Slang Terms You’ve Probably Never Heard Before
Are you a running shoe lesbian who likes to make vulva hands? There’s only one way to find out.
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Rebel Girls: On Building a Better Separatism
There is a power in building communities on our own terms as marginalized people. There is a freedom in escaping, even for a moment, the weight of oppression and the burden of society’s expectations for who we should be. And there is a revolution to be had in building better, more inclusive spaces for marginalized folks.
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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: This Is What A Lavender Menace Looks Like
By the time straight women of the second wave had caught up to the times, queer women had already f*cked up their movement — and built one all their own.
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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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Last Call: Stories from New Orleans’ Disappearing Dyke Bar Scene
A new podcast dives deep into New Orleans’ dyke bars of the 1970s and ’80s. Here are a few of the funny, sweet and powerful stories from Last Call.
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“This Shit Has Got to Change”: The Autostraddle Interview with Black Lesbian Feminist Legend Barbara Smith
This past Saturday, just a few hours before the Millions March in NYC, I sat down with Barbara Smith, a Black lesbian feminist legend.
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“Regarding Susan Sontag”: A Style Guide for the Young, Queer, and Whipsmart
Nancy Kates’ new documentary, now airing on HBO, is a portrait of the queer woman who made knowledge sexy.