Interviews with Queer Women

“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.”

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.

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

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

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 […]

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Thank God, and thank the lesbians.” 

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. 

People rather sheepishly sat around in a big circle waiting for a dominatrix to start a game of spin-the-bottle…

Set in the mid aughts, “Girls on Jane,” explores the characters’ personal crises and sexual escapades as they navigate life and the lesbian dating scene. It’s a world away from Covid, a throwback to the time when meeting people required more than simply swiping right. 

I am grateful for the safety of this space, for the community it contains, for those late night conversations with strangers that make you feel aware, awake and part of something.

Three queer women, one Honda SUV and perhaps the longest bar crawl ever. 

“It’s like a message from the 80s direct to today.”

“When I’m watching television, especially something that’s very queer-centered, I try to turn that part of my brain off. But — spoiler alert — you can’t. It’s always there.”

“When I sat down by myself in my apartment and thought about what I just said yes to, I got really emotional, because when I was younger, television, magazines, or any sort of media is where you get a preview of what could be. I never saw someone who looked exactly like me in an intimate scene.”

There were joyful tears throughout the dive bar. The whole night felt like a free mom hug.

“I think maybe one of the first things I said to Cait was like, ‘Hey, we’re going to be making out at some point,’” Grimes jokes.

Queers always create beauty.

Alice was, and is still, unfolding in front of our eyes, revealing new layers each time she graces the screen in an iconic pantsuit. 

“Regardless of how society has changed in the last 17 years,” Kate Moenning, who plays Shane, tells GO, “what hasn’t changed is the primal desire to be seen and to love and be loved.” 

Dave’s Lesbian Bar could be coming to Astoria, with your help.

Queers are magic, even in the middle of an RV park.

Pride means that you can own who you are, all of you, and live your truth out loud. Proud of who you are, where you are now, where you’ve been, and where you hope to go. Proud of your body, however you were born into it. Proud of who you love, what you identify as, and how you live your life. I chose to leave my dream-stealth life behind because I knew the world needed people to help them see and treat trans people differently. That’s why I can feel comfortable saying I know what true pride is.

The thought of driving through the South on purpose, as a butch dyke, was a vision of my gay hell.  But for the first stop of our tiny Pride tour, Country Roads, Take Me Homo, a small town is exactly where we ended up.

“Show up to the bars,” Street says. It’s not enough to lament the loss of the lesbian bars of old; we have to support those that are still here, “to show up to the brick and mortar. It’s a form of activism.” 

“Taylor Swift Made Me a U-Haul Dyke.”

http://gomag.com/article/meet-ginebras-the-queer-girl-gang-slaying-the-madrid-music-scene/ The band has blessed us with pop hits like “Crystal Fighters,” queer girl anthems like “Todas Mis Ex Tienen Novio,” or “All my ex-girlfriends have boyfriends,” and overtly feminist tracks like “Cosas Moradas” or “Purple things.”

“One of the main reasons I chose to be a part of this line of work is because I want those cycles of trauma to end,” they say. “I don’t want to always hear about how traumatic that experience was for that person… it isn’t going to be perfect, but at the end of the conversation, I want them to be able to say, ‘I had support. I knew it was going to be okay.’ I want to start hearing that more.”