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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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12 Lesbian Resorts You Could Visit This Summer If You Have A Time Machine
Hot women-only hotels, resorts and cabins to check out in Ohio, New Jersey, Florida, Oregon, Palm Springs, Delaware, Key West and Montana — just be sure to check in before 1998.
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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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16 Lesbian Power Couples From History Who Got Shit Done, Together
Just some low-key relationship goals for ya.
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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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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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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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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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Rebel Girls Reading List: The True Tales of 8 Women Who Ran (Parts of) the World
These memoirs, biographies, and autobiographies tell the stories of women who ran countries around the world — from the top.
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10 Badass Disabled Women You Should Know About
Disabled people deserve to know, from our school days, that we’re not just cases, diagnoses, or “not really disabled”; we’re part of a community with its own histories and triumphs.
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How This 1976 Landmark Lesbian Film Helped Me Find Myself
How did I, a girl growing up in 1970s New York City, relate to a drama about two women who fall in love during WWI? And, why has it remained with me for 40 years?
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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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Rebel Girls: These 6 Queer and Trans Trailblazers Made Political History
In my last installment of Rebel Girls, I briefed you on some of the badass glass ceiling crashers currently serving in office who are queer as f*ck. These six women came before them.
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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.