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Grrrls! Grrrls! Grrrls!: What I Learned From Riot
Riot showed us what revolution could look like. We had a new concept of what power could be. We could find it within ourselves and in each other — and we didn’t have to ask.
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The Lesbian Herstory Archives: A Constant Affirmation That You Exist
“I wish that people thought of it as a place to come on a Saturday afternoon, because it is important and it’s special. It’s not just about the things. It’s about having this home.”
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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.
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Trials and Titillation in Toronto: A Virtual Tour of the Canadian Lesbian & Gay Archives
“Happily, in the rainbow-tinted future we are surely headed for, where queer history is included in high school curriculum as a matter of routine, textbook editors will have somewhere to turn for their chapter content: The Canadian Lesbian & Gay Archives.”
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In 1973, Pamela Learned That Posing in Drag With A Topless Woman Is Forever
“During Gay Pride Week, Pamela’s father came to the Village to take her out to dinner… and that’s when Pamela saw it: plastered literally all over the place, on every wall and phone booth, was her own face staring back at her.”
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Call For Submissions: “The Way We Were”
This time we’re looking for herstory. Lots and lots of herstory.
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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.”
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The Very Lesbian Life of Miss Anne Lister
“I give you a selection of the extremely gay life of Miss Anne Lister, a contemporary of Jane Austen and a precursor to Shane McCutcheon.”
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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?
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5 Of My Favorite Women Human Rights Activists for International Women’s Day
“To push for peace is ultimately a personal sacrifice, for leadership is not easy. It is born of a passion, and it is a commitment.”
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It’s Black History Month! Here’s Five Of My Favorite LGBTQ Black Women
A history lesson, a poetry lesson, and a some famous queer black ladies.
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I Went to the NYC Feminist Zine Fest and All I Got Was An Awesome Time
Stories were told, pictures were taken, sexy eyes were made.
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Building the Master’s House: How the Construction of Heterosexuality Happened
“Just because something is constructed as a social category, doesn’t mean that it’s not enormously meaningful. It doesn’t mean that we haven’t built a whole damn civilization on it.”
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“Lavender Scare” Exposes The US Government’s Cold War Era Gay Witch Hunt
Maybe you’ve heard about the McCarthy-era Red Scare. But how about The Lavender Scare, “a vicious and vehement purge of homosexuals which lasted longer and ruined many more lives”?
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20 Years Ago Today in Gay History: The AB101 Veto Riots Would’ve Blown Your Mind
Twenty years ago today, the queers of San Francisco set fires, broke windows and got arrested, and they did it for you.
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Judith Butler 101: One Is Not Born a Queer Theorist, One Becomes One
Did you wake up today feeling a little too sure that you understood the relationship between sex and gender? No fear, Autostraddle is here! Guest writer Julia is here to learn you all about Judith Butler, and to make you feel smarter than you have all day.
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Feminist Theologian Mary Daly, Author of Gyn/Ecology, Dies at 81
Lesbian and feminist icon Mary Daly died Sunday at the age of 81. She had a great influence on feminist theology.
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The Gay 2000s: Twenty Decade-Defining Lesbian Happenings
Guess what, another decade is over! Here’s a retrospective on the best of times and worst of times in the 00’s for the queers.
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The Autostraddle Roundtable: Is there a Lesbian Generation Gap?
“To many young gay people, the passage of Prop 8 was shocking but not alarming,” writes Mark Harris in New York Magazine’s “The Gay Generation Gap,” published two weeks ago in the magazine’s special Pride Week Section. Harris continues: “It has jolted them into action, but one suspects it’s out of a Milk-fed belief that identity-politics activism can be ennobling and cool.” Ouch! One suspects that one is being unfair to us! One suspects that if we’ve managed to make activism “cool,” then that’s a BIG SCORE! — but wait. Before you get too excited (as we did), there’s no need to be offended ’cause this shit ain’t about you, woman! … so we decided to ask ourselves: Is there a Lesbian Generation Gap?” Special roundtable participants include Grace Chu of Grace the Spot, Haviland Stillwell and Riese’s Mom!