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In an exclusive interview with GO Magazine, Shadi Amin, Director of 6Rang, the largest Iranian LGBTQ+ organization, sheds light on the urgency of this situation and what our community can do to help.

“Seriously, there’s nothing out there for us, there’s nowhere you can have all three components – good vibes, good drinks, good music and feel safe and feel okay to sit in a bar alone as a woman.”

“Sexual freedom is a big part of Butch Please. As a butch dyke, my sexuality is policed in a very public and deep way so it’s crucial that this space is somewhere we feel free to express our sexuality.” 

It’s rare to see a show that celebrates queerness in all of its expansive, joyful glory.

A healthy sex life is attainable for everyone; we just have to talk about it. 

Photos by Grace Chu.

Furman’s songs have always followed queer characters, outcasts, and tired and desperate people with haunted heads. When I felt aimless, her songs were a compass. When I felt so disconnected from the earth that I would float away, her songs were an anchor.

“I’ve seen some responses by people who would consider themselves allies lean on victim-blaming rhetoric to justify the visceral reactions they’re having to the book’s contents. “I’m the Girl” is meant to be both a challenging—and revealing—reading experience.”

“I always knew I had a calling on my life.”

“I had a whole conversation with my captain about what it means to be trans. It opened up his world. I feel like he left that conversion a better person, which is the best part of my job. Aside from saving lives.”

FROM THE ARCHIVES: The game begins. I chase the ball instead of my thoughts. I sweat the way I’ve started to at night, my body washing all of its parts that used to hold her. The plate of my chest, the crook of my arm, and the crevice of my thighs all weep as I sleep. 

Naturally, a ranch festival can’t be all about nightlife – the blue cloudless skies, sandy beaches, and cool Mediterranean breeze, call your hungover ass to action no matter what you imbibed the night before.

“We’re not afraid to be queer and different. / If that means hell, well hell we’ll take the chance. / They’re all so straight, uptight, upright, and rigid. They march in lockstep; we prefer to dance. / We see a world of romance and pleasure. All they can see is sheer banality. Lavender night, our greatest treasure, where we can be just who we want to be.”

Master Barber Khane Kutzwell has created the queer barbershop of our dreams.

We cannot sink into despair and useless rage, but rise, rise, rise like the generation of the 1960’s and 70’s into a purposeful, dedicated national movement.

While members of the LGBTQ+ community have gained ground in the 30 years since the March on Washington, and the first Dyke March, true equality is not guaranteed. That’s why events like the Dyke March are as important now as they were in 1993 and why, despite the moments for celebration and joy, the March remains rooted to its activist origins. 

From Miami to Atlanta to Northwestern New Mexico, power couple Veronica Paige and Bridgette Young pull off the perfect wedding.

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.