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.
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)
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.
1940s
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!
1930s
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.
lesbian bars
"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.
lesbian bars
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
1920s
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,
1930s
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.