Queer Women We Love

SILVIA A. CANALES Since childhood, Silvia A. Canales has had an innate passion for helping her community. Her parents, both immigrants, believed in the transformative power of education, and while […]

SOPHIE B. HAWKINS Sophie B. Hawkins is a Grammy-nominated, platinum-selling artist known for her emotionally powerful material and eclectic musical style. With her breakout mainstream hit, “Damn, I Wish I […]

ZOOEY ZEPHYR “For me the question has always been, ‘What room can my voice do the most good in?’” Montana State Representative Zooey Zephyr says. “Now that I find myself […]

T KIRA MADDEN T Kira Māhealani Madden is a writer, photographer, and amateur magician who has made a name for herself as a prolific writer and advocate for diverse voices. […]

TIFFANY DOCKERY “As the granddaughter of a sharecropper who picked cotton for half her life and the daughter of a lifelong civil servant who spent her working life doing data […]

ZURIEL HOOKS At the age of 19, Zuriel Hooks is already a powerful woman. As leader of the Youth Ambassador Program at The Knights and Orchids, a non-profit specializing in […]

RABBI DENISE EGER AND RABBI ELEANOR STEINMAN We are both rabbis, so we met doing rabbi things in Los Angeles,” Denise Eger (left) and Eleanor Steinman both recall. Now happily […]

CHRISTINA HULEN Photo by Connie Kurtew I’ve always been a storyteller,” says Christina Hulen. Before moving into filmmaking, the award-winning screenwriter, director, and producer worked in theatrical design, then in […]

RABBI DENISE EGER AND RABBI ELEANOR STEINMAN We are both rabbis, so we met doing rabbi things in Los Angeles,” Denise Eger (left) and Eleanor Steinman both recall. Now happily […]

PEPPERMINT “Performing comes naturally to me,” Peppermint says. Growing up in Delaware, the RuPaul’s Drag Race runner-up, actress and recording artist performed in youth theater and was a high school […]

LIANNA CARRERA “I experienced life as the gay daughter of a Southern Baptist minister and my mother is deaf,” comedian Lianna Carrera says. “So there’s a lot of comedy baked […]

FIONA DAWSON Fiona Dawson was inspired to start her own production company after seeing Oprah launch OWN Network in 2010. “This opportunity spoke to my soul,” the award-winning director recalls. […]

ONEITA PARKER “Being a woman, Black, and gay isn’t easy,” says Oneita Parker. “Life in general is not easy. But if it were easy, what would be the point?” The […]

NAOMI BENNETT Naomi Bennett has a vision for the future: a sapphic utopia in which community members come together to collaborate, empower, and support one another’s endeavors and dreams. Bennett, […]

ANDREA BREANNA Growing up in Silicon Valley in the 1980s, Andrea Breanna had access to computers and technology before home computers became mainstream. By the time she was 10, she’d […]

ANGELIQUE ROCHE As a child, Angelique Roche fell in love with the many ways one can tell stories. She wrote poetry, performed, acted in movies and TV shows, took photos, […]

CHARLIE AMÁYÁ SCOTT “I love who I am becoming, and I know that I am a brilliant and a powerful trans femme, and my womanhood defies and exists beyond the […]

ROBIN BURDULIS “I was playing pots, pans, alarm clocks, and garbage cans as a child,” recalls Robin Burdulis (pictured on right, with Edie Windsor). “When I got a ‘Susie Homemaker’ […]

JAIMIE KELTON “I started as a musical theater performer—never in my wildest dreams would I have thought that one day I would change my passions from singing and dancing to […]

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.

MARY PSAROUDAKI Photo by Sissy Savva Around the world, lesbian bars and clubs are nearly non-existent, leaving very few safe spaces for queer women to gather, dance, and make connections. […]

RABBI DENISE EGER AND RABBI ELEANOR STEINMAN We are both rabbis, so we met doing rabbi things in Los Angeles,” Denise Eger (left) and Eleanor Steinman both recall. Now happily […]

CHRISTINA HULEN I’ve always been a storyteller,” says Christina Hulen. Before moving into filmmaking, the award-winning screenwriter, director, and producer worked in theatrical design, then in the art department for […]

HANAN KATTAN   photo by Ki Price “I got into producing purely to get [my partner] Shamim’s screenplays made,” Hanan Kattan says. “I love many aspects of being a movie […]

DUSTINA HAASE-LANIER   “Working for social justice is not just a job for me—it’s a calling,” says Dustina Haase-Lanier (above right), a Native Alaskan social justice activist who has served […]

ABIGAIL FIERCE “I started writing songs in middle school because I was kind of shy. I think it was a way for me to control my narrative when I felt […]

ALISON WILLIAMS, AKA “SIR RAVEN” Alison Williams came out in the LGBTQ+ leather, kink, and BDSM scene in the mid- ’1990s, when things were significantly different than they are today. […]

AMBER GALLOWAY A long-time lover of music, Amber Galloway has used her skills in American Sign Language (ASL) to bridge the gap between music and deaf audiences. She was inspired […]

ANI FERLISE “I found myself losing my humanity in the name of ‘growth’ and ‘healing,’” says Ani Ferlise, recalling how she first became disenchanted with spirituality culture. “I would go […]

ANNA DESHAWN Anna DeShawn is a Chicago-born social entrepreneur who’s turned her passion for media into a full-time dream career. As the founder and CEO of E3 Radio and co-founder […]

ANJALI RIMI “My vision is to ensure all forms of social oppressions centering [on] transphobia, homophobia, and xenophobia have no place on this earth,” says Anjali Rimi. A San Francisco-based […]

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