Hot '90s++ Pics: The Box, Club Q, Sticks, & More

In my Our Dyke Histories interview with Lucas Hilderbrand, we talked giddily about a wide range of incredible spaces -- and you need to see them to believe them.

Reading Guide 1940s-1960s: Dyke Bar* History as Told by Beebo, Lily, Audre, Leslie, Alix, & Mona

How do we even begin to tell the lezbiqueertrans history of the 1940s-1960s? With "gender impersonators," especially!

That’s Not Violette Morris

Not all butches look alike. My trans clocking on how the famous Le Monocle photos are misread -- and the queer possibilities therein.

"The Bars Are Ours: Queer Nightlife, AIDS, and Community in the 1980s & 1990s, with Lucas Hilderbrand"

Our Dyke Histories is back with the 1980s-1990s. Including! Lezbiqueertrans super parties. Fighting AIDS. Queer generational collapse. And how cool St. Louis drag was.

Our Dyke Histories Is Back with More Dyke Bars*!

Our Dyke Histories is back to tell you all about dyke bars* since the 1980s!

"Softball, Separatism, and the Shescape Seven, 1970s"

We're back at it sharing the transcripts from Part 1 of Our Dyke Histories podcast decade-by-decade coverage on dyke bars* around the world. We spent four profound episodes in the 1970s because there's you just gotta, friends. They did so much, those lesbian feminists

Reading Guide: Beyond Harlem Rent Parties, 1920s-1930s

We’ve long known all too little about the history of Black queer women’s social networks prior to Stonewall–until now.

Blue Star Tattoos / Nautical or Not

Blue star tattoos. She took off her watch and I saw my first. An inked symbol on the wrist of a bisexual woman from the West Coast. It was 1998 and we were both students at my New England women’s college. The next sighting was a set of stars,

Is "Fat Claude" the Dyke Olympian-cum-Nazi Violette Morris?

A brief history of a very bad gay who may or may not be in one of the most important photos in dyke history.

He Who Photographed Dykedom

Lately I am greatly annoyed by and grateful to the photographer Brassaï (1899-1984). My research into his photography of lesbiqueertrans folks at Monocle have happily taken up days of my life, but not just the Le Monocle images I wrote about previously. I am wading through Brassaï because took

Reading Guide: Le Monocle, 1932

Look upon this delightful lezbiqueertransness of the 1930s! Welcome to Paris' sapphic cabaret Le Monocle.

Sing with Me Now: "B.D. Women's Blues" & "Prove It on Me"

In a spacetime where so many of us are being silenced or targeted, it's a great time to bring back the ways folks spoke openly of QTBIPOC desire in the 1920s and 1930s.