In this much-anticipated follow-up to “12 Monumental Moments In Lesbian Blazer-Wearing History” we are narrowing our focus onto one key subject in 90s blazer history: Rosie O’Donnell.

From Winnaretta Singer to Nats Getty, you’ll learn so much in this post and even meet another Mountbatten!

In 1982 Alice Walker wrote a Black queer text so ahead of its time, that 40 years later we’re still fighting to catch up.

Women athletes who came out before very recently risked everything to do so: their endorsements, their fans, their spots on their teams, their livelihoods, and sometimes even their own lives. Here are 22 lesbian, bisexual and trans women athletes who changed their games and changed the game for LGBTQ people by choosing to live openly.

Some very cool ladies to remember in all that we do

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!

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.

Come on, you knew there’d be cats involved.

Sideways oxen, promiscuous Protestants, Susan Sontag and now us.

“Queer” set itself up as “not straight” centuries before “straight” had even thought about being a sexual identity.”

Vanessa chats with Marvin J. Taylor about Kathleen Hanna, Kathy Acker, lesbian comics, secret lesbians of early Hollywood and other fascinating secrets uncovered at Fales.