1940s
We ramble further in our Reading Guide Fridays with the skinny on some must-read readings re dykes in the 1940s-1960s, both from that era and written in retrospect. Our fourth selection is basically one of the most central authors in the dyke canon... It’s safe to say
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More transcript goss on the 1970s dykes of the Upper Midwest with Finn Enke.
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If you missed Finn Enke on Our Dyke Histories, this transcript brings pt1 to life on the page.
lesbian bars
You wanna go to a dyke bar where everybody knows your name? We all do. But as we wait for that miracle, go back in time to Mona's.
lesbian bars
Noise complaints are a hundred-year+ tactic for closing and policing lesbian, gay, and lgbtq bars and parties.
dyke bars
How racist is queer life? And how do you be a 40+ year activist despite it? Auntie Valerie Walker tells all, including how "the bar scene is its own movement."
Asian lesbians
Buy this book for the gayass youth in your life or the gayass youth in you, and for every East Asian dyke you know so they/she/he feels as seen and represented as they should be. <3
Lesbian, bisexual, queer, dyke, and trans chat & research for your sanity.
All the 1980s stories, insights, gossip, and images your dyke-loving heart desires.
In the first of two episodes on the 1980s, Jack chats with Sarah Schulman, Katherine V. Forrest, and Valerie Walker re lesbian bars, bookstores, queer parties, sex and sex parties, race and racism, AIDS, activism, and the worlds we made from them.
Bannon writes of the iconic, tall, hot, mildly-unhinged Beebo as she tries to make a life for herself in late 1950s Greenwich Village.
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.
How do we even begin to tell the lezbiqueertrans history of the 1940s-1960s? With "gender impersonators," especially!
Not all butches look alike. My trans clocking on how the famous Le Monocle photos are misread -- and the queer possibilities therein.
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 to tell you all about dyke bars* since the 1980s!
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
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. 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,
A brief history of a very bad gay who may or may not be in one of the most important photos in dyke history.