Community Voices

One glance at Wegener’s erotic art featuring sex between females shows you that she was very familiar with lesbianism – the happiness, wit and charm of her relaxed drawings suggest that she herself had sex with women.

What would Lea DeLaria be like as president? “Impeachable,” the comedy legend says, without missing a beat.  I can’t see her asking a favor of the president of Ukraine or […]

As a semi-closeted Hindu lesbian newcomer to a rural town at the southern tip of the world, this haunts me.

LezVolley attracts thousands each year to watch the games and experience an entertainment-packed (and gay AF) beach day like no other. 

Today we celebrate – what else? – all things lesbian.

From my heart to yours, I will celebrate your story with you.

“The book presented itself to me automatically because I was f*cking miserable.”

Her Mouth A Door, After Which / There Is Another Door

The first time, I was on my back, at her tongue’s mercy.

Their art and lives must tell their story now, as Lamorna has slumbered back into obscurity.

On International Women’s Day this year, the art exhibit “The Other Bulgarian Women,” premiered in Sofia, Bulgaria, where it sparked a national controversy. 

Cooling emerged as an artist in the late 1970s, a time of struggle and fundamental change for women, the LGBTQ+ community, and lesbians in particular.

One leader of the country’s far-right Mi Hazánk party shredded the book in a public display, calling it “homosexual propaganda.”

“I think that, when you layer gender and sexuality, and race on storytelling, it gets harder and harder and harder to tell your story sometimes, and the amount of space or permission you have to do that can really become smaller, and smaller and smaller.”

EL*C have created a Lesbian Hosting Network, gathering over 300 availabilities: spare rooms, sofa beds, and second apartments in just a week. They are currently relocating lesbians in Spain, Bulgaria, Germany and the UK, and have helped two lesbian families (plus their pets) get to the Netherlands, and a lesbian couple to Portugal. 

“We’ll sit by the window,” says one patron as they order a bottle of red, “so we can watch the world go by.”

Much like the women he painted, Lautrec was always an outsider.

Lenny Emson speaks to GO about his team trapped inside Kyiv as Russian forces close in on the city.

That is what I would like to gift to myself and to others as the world continues to burst from the inside out: permission to take as long as you need to mourn whatever you lost. Permission to sit in your stillness and grieve what you thought these two years would be like. Permission to be sad and hurt and angry that people and dreams will no longer be realized.

“I don’t care if it’s a tiny movie where I’m making no money or a giant show. Because the reason I do what I do, and love what I do, is about storytelling, and expressing those moments of human interaction that are both beautiful and agonizing.”

“There are moments I experience so much happiness, I cannot take it.”

Let your partner know that you think you two make the best team in the world (after JoJo and Jenna on Dancing With The Stars).

The only thing that feels better than a hitachi wand is putting queer money back into queer businesses.

Valentine’s Day shouldn’t be a day of feeling less than. And it won’t be for her. Especially not with the giant cookie we plan on making.

If the love in your life happens to be a tree-hugging, oil-rubbing, bath-bombing, recycling kind of babe, this is the gift guide for you!

“Thank God, and thank the lesbians.” 

Georgia has a long and sordid history of violating LGBTQ+ rights. It took an attack on the press for us to finally pay attention.

There’s no sadness that a gay bar can’t cure.

One of the awesome things about being queer is that it frees us from certain social expectations. When we do make stereotypically heteronormative life moves, like getting married or becoming parents, it’s more likely to feel like a conscious choice rather than the fulfillment of some predetermined script. 

“Masculine? Feminine? It depends on the situation. Neuter is the only gender that always suits me.”

Here are 100 lesbian, bi, queer, and just plain human moments that had extra special meaning for our entire community.

“We tell each other stories in order to live.”

Here’s how we make it work.

I say “yes” to Dionysus and the joy of being in both the lightness and the darkness.

We adamantly recommend that all who consider venturing out to any public event continue to intelligently and carefully assess any risks involved in attending such events. We love you!

In spite of the pain, I’ve found a strength and trust in myself.