Queer Women We Love

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.”

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

“It’s indicative that doors are opening,” DeBose shared with reporters following her win.

“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.”

“Masculine? Feminine? It depends on the situation. Neuter is the only gender that always suits me.”

Here are 100 lesbian, bi, queer, and just plain human moments that had extra special meaning for our entire community.

I say “yes” to Dionysus and the joy of being in both the lightness and the darkness.

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

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

“Josephine Baker,” said President Macron in Tuesday’s ceremony, “you enter the Pantheon because while you were born American … deep down there was no one more French than you.”

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. 

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

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

I missed my girlfriend so thoroughly, in a way these songs understood. I now knew what it was like to want a person so badly that it can only be described in anatomical terms: it’s physically impossible to get close enough until you’re shrunk down and inside their bones. 

“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.”

When I look at her self-portrait, I connect with the bohemian Paris of her day, to the lesbian artist who lived and loved. I am reminded that my present is what it is because of those who came before, and that I too am a small link to our queer, and hopefully freer, future.

“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.” 

Picturesque sunsets, laid back beaches, endless vineyards, farm-to-table dinners, chic shoppes, iconic views, and rich history. Long Island’s North Fork is just 90 miles from New York City, but it feels like a different world.

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

Every June, GO Magazine compiles a select list of talented tastemakers, influencers, and all-around inspirational women who are making their mark on the LGBTQ+ community and on the world at large.

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.

The older I become, the more that Pride becomes a period of remembrance.

I became Emily Alexa Freeman, my third alias, with a fairy tale for a backstory. I had one overriding rule: tell no one.

“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.” 

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.”

“I dance when I celebrate, when I’m happy, when the sun is out, when I receive good news!  And when there is no good reason to dance, I dance!”

“Pageantry definitely is evolving.”

Equal Ground is Sri Lanka’s oldest non profit LGBTQ+ advocacy group, raising awareness of rights and visibility in a country that officially offers no protections for queer and gender non-conforming people.