Gay By Design
By Karen Raines
I was watching TV the other day someone in the show I was watching asked, “If you met your eighteen-year-old self and could only say three words, what would they be?” Immediately, I knew mine: “Yes, you are.”
Tagged: Lesbian
Blog Posts
On Making “Women’s Music” as a Non-Binary Person
By Olivia Klugman
I love being non-binary and I love my community, but there are times when the explicit exclusion of non-binary and trans people from “women’s spaces” feels painful and outdated.
Dykes to Watch Out For, 40 Years Later
By Martha K. Davis
This year, the 40th anniversary of the appearance of DTWOF, another incarnation of Bechdel’s work is available on Audible: a ten-episode podcast series based on early episodes of the comic strip.
Am I Gay?
By Melissa Giberson
But my journey to figuring out who I was, looking back from the other side of the threshold I unintentionally breached, officially began with that imposing question. I might as well have asked, “Who am I?” as if in some amnesic state, because suddenly I had no idea.
Review of Nelly & Nadine
By Cassandra Langer
Danish filmmaker Magnus Gertten’s documentary Nelly & Nadine tells the incredible story of two women who fell in love in Ravensbrück on Christmas Eve, 1944.
Butch Stories Saved My Life
By Camille Kellogg
Growing up, I certainly knew that butch lesbians existed. But it never crossed my mind that being butch was an actual, viable option for my future.
New Logic
By Caitlin Hanratty
“Uh huh,” I reply, as if it’s a universal truth: we fall in love with people as individuals, not their gender. I am following a new logic, though I don’t quite understand it.
A Marriage Skeptic’s Road to Marriage
By Janet Mason
My relationship with marriage was complicated to say the least. I grew up in a time and place where it was expected that all females should find a man, settle down, and have children.
Step in to The Lesbian Bar Project
By Christina Schlesinger
These bars are not just bars, they are living entities with a heartbeat.