GO! Presents 100 Women We Love: Class of 2024

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December 13, 2024

Becca Williams

Queer Artists Make Their Mark with Billboard Music Award Wins

Chappell Roan was awarded Top New Artist and SZA was awarded Top R&B Artist and Top R&B Female Artist.

December 11, 2024

Sassafras Patterdale

How Queer Youth Homelessness Prepared Me for the Trump Presidency

Fear has always been part of my daily life.  So has the determination to thrive despite it.

December 4, 2024

Dayna Troisi, Becca Williams

GO’s Ultimate Queer Gift Guide: 30 Fabulous Finds for Everyone on Your List

From butches to femmes, pet lovers to culinary queens, there’s something here for everyone.

November 19, 2024

Dayna Troisi

Censorship, Sex Work, and Free Speech: Alex Kekesi and Asa Akira’s ‘Terms of Service’ Podcast Explores How Porn is Political and Connects Us All

Alex Kekesi and Asa Akira sit down with GO Magazine, shining a light on the ways porn is political—and how everyone is connected in this fight for free expression.

November 2, 2024

Rain Dove

 A ‘They/Them’ Amongst ‘They/Them’

Nonbinary activist and influencer Rain Dove plunged into Trump territory to dig deep into the psyche of his supporters, listen to the provocative speakers, and find out how they would be received at the NYC Trump rally. Some of what they discovered was surprising.

October 10, 2023

Kimberly Dark

There’s No Place Like Berlin: A Queer Love Letter

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

September 6, 2023

Clare Hand

Italy Might Not Feel Safe For Queer People, But This Milan Trans-Feminist Bar Does

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

August 24, 2023

Clare Hand

Poly Sapphic Nomads Find Their Home On The Island Of Lesbos

My Big Fat Polyamorous Sapphic Greek (unofficial) Wedding.

August 22, 2023

Margaret Hetherman

The Magnificent Life Of Trans Activist PJ Two Ravens

Remembering the beautiful spirit who offered hope to many generations of trans people.

August 22, 2023

Ali Lopez

An ‘L Word’ Chart Of The Women’s World Cup Has Just Surfaced

You won’t believe who the Shane of the World Cup is.

August 17, 2023

Margaret Hetherman, Lauren Emily

Anita Dolce Vita on dapperQ & the Joyful, Radical Politics of Queer Style

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

July 27, 2023

Margaret Hetherman

Riis Beach: Then, Now, Forever

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

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Yes Holiday Market

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Queer & Trans Yoga

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May 27, 2023

Dayna Troisi

GO’s ULTIMATE NYC Pride Guide 2023

The hottest Prides, parties, events, and more!
DIVA magazine image of a black blonde short haired woman kissing a white woman with red lipstick wearing purple whose head is thrown back.

April 26, 2023

Ali Lopez

Baby Can You See Her? Happy Lesbian Visibility Week!

Happy Lesbian Visibility Day!

February 28, 2023

Dayna Troisi

Witches, Bitches, & Whores Get A New Patron Saint In This Queer Author

Join Ferlise on a divinely raw and darkly hilarious journey through modern spirituality in an attempt to quiet her demons.

February 6, 2023

Clare Hand

Sapphic Pleasure Abounds At This Montréal Hot Spot

There’s a very good reason the bathroom line is long.

January 5, 2023

Dayna Troisi

Farms, Freak Shows, & The Future

Babylon to Penn Station. Penn Station to St Jeromes. Jeromes to a “secret location.” A spray painted school bus to a warehouse in Greenpoint. Susanne Bartsch. Flashing lights. Open bar.  I accidentally follow Solange to her private car.

December 30, 2022

GO Staff

GO Is Currently Accepting Nominations For 100 Women We Love: Class of 2023! 

Each year, GO publishes 100 Women We Love, a roundup of outstanding queer women who are making an impact on the world through their work, advocacy, and visibility. We are currently accepting nominations for Women We Love, Class of 2023.

December 29, 2022

GO Staff

The Top 100 Lesbian, Bi, Trans, and Queer Moments of 2022

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

December 9, 2022

Zoë Sprankle

So Much Of You Bled Into Me

I don’t think I’ve ever fallen out of love with anyone I’ve been with. Not completely anyway.

December 2, 2022

Alison Hinman

A’Kala Chaires Isn’t Scared Of ‘Breaking Down & Going Outside The Lines’

“It’s not the mistake that matters, it’s how you come back from that.”

October 26, 2022

Megan Lane

Bella Thorne ‘Doesn’t Believe In Regrets’ & Gets Real In This Exclusive GO Mag Interview

“When I told the world that I identify as pansexual, most people didn’t fully understand it. And they still don’t know what pansexual means — I’ve been asked for the definition more times than I can count. But my fans were so supportive and I’m very thankful for them.”

October 5, 2022

Clare Hand

Two Iranian LGBTQ+ Activists On Death Row Need Our Support. Here’s How We Can Help.

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.

September 8, 2022

Lauren Emily

Courtney Summers On Coming Out, Lesbian Love Stories & Her Highly Anticipated 8th Book

“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.”

March 25, 2022

Robin Kish

Neema Avashia Is Telling Her Story Of Growing Up Queer & Indian in Appalachia

“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.”

March 24, 2022

Clare Hand

EL*C: The Lesbian Organization Offering Safety In & Around Ukraine

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. 

December 2, 2021

Olivia Typaldos

I Thought I Had Dealt With My Shame Once I Came Out. Then I Went Sober.

Both addiction and queerness can be shrouded in shame as the messaging feels the same: there’s something “wrong” with me.

October 28, 2021

Robin Kish

‘Rebel Dykes’ & The Untold Story Of Renegade S&M Lesbians In London

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

July 8, 2021

Ty Yule

Country Roads, Take Me Homo: Part 4

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

June 22, 2021

Ty Yule

Country Roads, Take Me Homo: Part 2

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.

April 26, 2021

Clare Hand

Madeline Davis: The Incalculable Value Of A Lesbian Legend’s Life

“We want to make sure that this next stage of Madeline’s life is as free from fear and full of love as our whole lives have been because of her.”

October 9, 2020

Josefin Dolsten

Pansexual Hip-Hop Artist Lady Ace Boogie Can’t Be Put In A Box

Tellis wants her music to help people — whether it’s inspiring other female rappers, serving as a queer role model, or just having fans connect with her songs.

October 7, 2020

Robin Kish

Nothing Is Off Limits, As Long As It’s Funny: Judy Gold Is A Comedy Icon

“If you’re going to go to a comedy club and then get upset that you got offended, that’s like getting on a roller coaster and getting upset that you got scared, or you got sick.”

August 31, 2020

Robin Kish

Lesbians, Assemble: Robyn Levy is Casting For Her New Reality Show ‘The Facts of Wife’

“I’m casting people who are different from me to make changes that affect all of us.”   

June 11, 2020

Delphine Douglas

The Lesbian Herstory Archives Create A Legacy For Fierce Dykes Everywhere

“The Archives shall be involved in the political struggles of all Lesbians.”

June 9, 2020

Lauren Emily

Publishing Pride In A Pandemic: A Conversation With Queer Authors Leah Johnson & Kristen Lepionka

“Race and sexuality are inextricably linked.”
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