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.
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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.
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Our Dyke Histories Is Back with More Dyke Bars*!
Our Dyke Histories is back to tell you all about dyke bars* since the 1980s!
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.
1920s
Reading Guide: Le Monocle, 1932
Look upon this delightful lezbiqueertransness of the 1930s! Welcome to Paris' sapphic cabaret Le Monocle.
1920s
Reading Guide: Dyke Bars* 1920s-1930s
To complement the launch of the Our Dyke Histories podcast, which is co-produced in collaboration with Sinister Wisdom, I put together a reading guide with my interns to feed your dyke bar* fascinations too.
1940s
"The Gender of Desire: Joan Nestle’s Last Interview"
Not long after we popped on our screens to record together, Joan Nestleannounced, "I'm 84. I'm very tired. This will be my last interview with you all today." I couldn't breathe.
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"Queer Pulp, Dark Bars & the Police State, 1940s-1960s"
Along with a lush photo spread of some queer highlights, awfulness, and delicious everyday life from the 1940s-1960s, enjoy a deep dive into NYC queer history with Joan Nestle, Hugh Ryan, and Alix Genter.
bi spaces
It's Closed Now: Our Decades-Long Fixation with Lost Dykedom
A meditation on the it's-closed-now rhetoric of lezbiqueertrans spaces--why it's true and how it traps anyone wanting to build a better world.
1920s
Why Did U.S. Lesbian Bars Start in the 1930s?
On dykes and the mafia: a tale of the Prohibition sex tourism, racialized racist tourism, policing, graft, and desire.