Queer History

Feminist bookstores aren’t just places to purchase queer books, they are gathering sites that bring local lesbian and queer communities together.

When Tracy Chapman starts strumming, I start crying, and it turns out I’m not alone.

Mädchen in Uniform is screening at Film Forum’s SAPPH-O-RAMA Film Festival on Tuesday, February 6 at 4:10pm, and Saturday, February 10 at 12:15pm.

It all started with a broken heart.

This time last year there were three queer bars in Taksim: this year, only Bigudi remains.

It’s impossible not to be in awe of all the powerful queer women who dominated 2023– especially during a year that was markedly hard on our community.

We Live Here: The Midwest unearths the stories of those who are often ignored, forgotten about, or flown right over.

From pussy-shaped waffles to Picasso.

There’s even a queer rewrite of “The Dreidel Song.”

To be clear, Bulgaria is no tourist mecca for queer folks. But there are still some great reasons to visit if you have the privilege of safely doing so. 

Nyad, the movie, is inspirational. Nyad’s story isn’t so simple in real life. 

But beware they identify as a “part-time cheater.”

Chappell Roan “doesn’t feel like a queer icon.” Her cult following says otherwise.

Berlin is a magnet for those wishing to change and possibly change again, to hold the door open for futures unknown and unknowable.  

Welcome to Pop, Milan’s queer safe space in Giorgia Meloni’s Italy.

“One of the most stylish forms of protest of our generation.”

The building may be demolished, but the queers aren’t going anywhere.

On Monday, Kamala Harris touched down in NYC to visit The Stonewall Inn and the National Stonewall Monument to honor LGBTQIA+ pioneers during Pride month. She was greeted by Shirley […]

Since we launched, Women We Love, which includes cisgender and transgender women across the LGBTQ+ spectrum, has featured nearly 2,000 women, each of whom has worked in her own way to make her community, her state, her country, or the larger global environment a better and more inclusive place for us all.

Iconic.

From singers, to authors, to historical figures, to activists, these 20 extraordinary Black women deserve to be celebrated everyday.

Shadi Amin, the founder of 6Rang, Iran’s Largest LGBTQ+ organization, tells her tale of becoming one of the most prominent lesbian Iranian activists.

Lesbian and queer women slayed in 2022 in the realms of social justice, music, film, sports, and more.

What do monsters represent for us versus a straight audience?

Photos by Grace Chu.

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

“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.”

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.

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. 

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

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