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Celebrities (Vapid Fluff) LGBT History

“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…?”

Riese July 17, 2017 59 Comments
LGBT History

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.

Kay July 4, 2017 10 Comments
LGBT History

For Your Consideration: A Topless Duel Between Noblewomen in 1897

Then, as now, a certain sort of man was fascinated by these so-called petticoat duels, and The Illustrated Police News, Britain’s first tabloid and official worst newspaper, liked to report on them in full. With pictures.

Siobhan June 28, 2017 17 Comments
LGBT History

5 Women From Mythology You Should Totally Date

Hatshepsut is the original Mommi

Siobhan June 22, 2017 19 Comments
Comedy LGBT History

Roundtable: The Lesbian Toaster

Everyone on staff tells me WITHOUT LOOKING where they think the lesbian toaster thing came from.

Erin June 22, 2017 67 Comments
LGBT History

Lesbian Bar Names of the Past, Ranked

RIP sweet girls.

Erin June 15, 2017 45 Comments
A zine-style poster of a woman in profile with short brown hair. The text over her face reads "Queer Nation" and "Not a dyke haircut."
LGBT History

You Should Go: Brush Up Your ’90s Activist History with Lesbians to Watch Out For

The history and art exhibit opens tonight and runs through June 30 at Plummer Park in West Hollywood. Zines! Avengers! Arrests! Street resistance! And a grassroots organizing panel!

Carrie June 2, 2017 21 Comments
LGBT History

Queer Folklore: Athena and Hestia Bring the Asexuality to Olympus

The Ancient Greek pantheon, though upsettingly low on the lady loving women considering the rampant male bisexuality going on, does has a surprising wealth of asexual and aromantic goddesses.

Siobhan May 30, 2017 66 Comments
LGBT History

10 Very Gay Excerpts from Vita and Virginia’s Love Letters

The lives (and affair) of Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West is coming to the big screen this year. Here are some of the gayest things they wrote to one another.

Alice Lesperance May 24, 2017 21 Comments
LGBT History

Let’s Talk About Dionysus, Genderqueer God of Partying and Pride

If you want a god of sex, wine and smashing the gender binary into little tiny pieces you might want to try Dionysus.

Siobhan May 16, 2017 22 Comments
LGBT History

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.

Riese May 16, 2017 26 Comments
LGBT History

Artemis Is the Queer Girl Goddess BFF of Your Dreams

The mythology has her securing a promise of perpetual “virginity” from her father and immediately skipping off into the mountain forests with a group of like-minded nymphs. Together she and her women hiked, swam, lived off the land and viciously murdered any man who walked in on them naked.

Siobhan May 2, 2017 41 Comments
LGBT History

21 Unintentionally Gay Vintage Newspaper Clippings That I Wish Were Gay For Real

If only they knew, back then, what “butch” and “queer” might mean today…

Riese April 27, 2017 35 Comments
LGBT History

Pompeii, the “Two Maidens,” and Thousands of Years of Precarious Masculinity

New evidence that the famous “two maidens” of Pompeii may have been male — but does that actually mean, as some have suggested, that they were a gay couple?

Siobhan April 18, 2017 35 Comments
LGBT History

How to Become a Deadly Misandrist Fairy Vampire

Even one cauldron full of blood is one cauldron we didn’t have before!

Siobhan April 18, 2017 43 Comments
LGBT History

Queer Folklore: M Is for Macha, Mythical Irish Queens of Misandry

Moral of the story: don’t be a dick to pregnant people. Obviously. You shouldn’t need a morality tale to tell you this.

Siobhan April 7, 2017 18 Comments
LGBT History

16 Lesbian Power Couples From History Who Got Shit Done, Together

Just some low-key relationship goals for ya.

Riese March 31, 2017 142 Comments
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LGBT History

Queer Folklore: The Morrigan Is A Goddess for Protest

The Morrigan has always seemed wildly queer to me. The sort of army boot-wearing femme-butch blend who uses the word “dyke” like a clenched fist aimed at the patriarchy.

Siobhan March 21, 2017 41 Comments
LGBT History TV Reviews

“When We Rise” Is What The World Needs Now, Especially You

ABC has dedicated eight primetime hours to a sweeping miniseries charting LGBT history from the ’70s ’til a few years ago and it’s pretty great except for the bad wigs.

Riese February 27, 2017 43 Comments
LGBT History TV Lists

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.

Riese February 26, 2017 14 Comments
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