1940s
Reading Guide: Butch-Femme in NYC’s Greenwich Village, 1940s-1960s
Is a butch always a butch, a fem always a fem? Who knows!
Jack Gieseking
Jack Gieseking is an environmental psychologist, historian, geographer, swimmer, creator, podcaster, and trans masc dyke who is deeply enthusiastic @ lezbiqueertrans everything, social justice, his partner, kids, and their dog, Gaybe. (he/they/v gay)
1940s
Reading Guide: Audre Lorde in NYC’s Greenwich Village, 1950s-1960s
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
OurDykeHistories
"Finding the Movement: Queer Space, Dance, and Survival, 1970s"
More transcript goss on the 1970s dykes of the Upper Midwest with Finn Enke.
OurDykeHistories
"Dollar Parties, Bookstores, and Constellations of Lezbiqueertrans Life, 1970s"
If you missed Finn Enke on Our Dyke Histories, this transcript brings pt1 to life on the page.
lesbian bars
Reading Guide: Mona’s Candle Light in San Francisco, 1950
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, a.k.a. How to Kill the Lesbian Bar
Noise complaints are a hundred-year+ tactic for closing and policing lesbian, gay, and lgbtq bars and parties.
dyke bars
How to Be an Activist: the 1980s from Auntie Valerie Walker
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
Reading Guide: Lily Hu in San Francisco, 1954
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
1980s
But Do We Get to Stay?: Sex, Gentrification, and the 1980s
All the 1980s stories, insights, gossip, and images your dyke-loving heart desires.
OurDykeHistories
The 1980s: Sex, Space, and Survival, with Sarah Schulman, Valarie Walker, & Katherine V. Forrest
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.
1940s
Reading Guide: The Beebo Brinker Chronicles, 1957-1962
Bannon writes of the iconic, tall, hot, mildly-unhinged Beebo as she tries to make a life for herself in late 1950s Greenwich Village.
1980s
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.