lesbian bars
"Lesbian Chic, Dyke Politics: 1990s-2000s"
What actually makes a dyke bar a dyke bar?
dyke bars
lesbian bars
Why We’re Stuck on the Last Ditch
Why does the public delight in watching lesbian bars unravel?
1950s
Reading Guide: Leslie Feinberg in Buffalo, 1960s
Do you know why everydyke giving every other dyke Stone Butch Blues to read is a trope? Because it’s flipping amazing and, yes, we are telling you to go read this book.
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
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
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.
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.