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.
queer bars
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!
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.
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
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: The Epic Life of Eve Adams
First installment of the Queer Geographies Reading Guide: Jonathan Ned Katz's The Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adams.