Category: Art
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Professional women’s baseball returns to the US after 70 years
Lesbians were heartbroken when Prime Video canceled the A League of Their Own (2022) series, but it seems to have sparked a passion for women’s baseball in the United States. In 2026, the Women’s Professional Baseball League (WPBL) will go ahead as the first US professional women’s baseball league in 70 years. A League…
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Ruby Rose says Katy Perry sexually assaulted her. Lesbians are not surprised.
Orange Is the New Black’s Ruby Rose has claimed on Threads that pop star Katy Perry sexually assaulted her when Rose was in her early 20s. I support Ruby Rose coming forward. The truth is that Katy Perry has been irking lesbians since she sang I Kissed a Girl (2008), treating same-sex intimacy as a…
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Tender Futures: Morgan Lieberman’s art of senior lesbians
Morgan Lieberman (@thechromaticsheep) is a visual artist from Los Angeles, USA, whose recent commissions include The Washington Post, TIME and National Geographic. She’s currently working on her first photography book, which features senior lesbian partnerships. Morgan has met with over 50 partnerships in 10 different U.S. states. You can donate to help cover travel costs.…
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Butch knight game 1348 Ex Voto shares issues with early lesbian film
It’s been a month since the 3rd-person action-adventure game 1348 Ex Voto was released. We felt promised a lesbian love story set in 14th-century Italy, inspired by chivalric tropes, where butch lesbian Aeta journeys to save her beloved, Bianca. Homophobic gamer bros hated it before it came out–not only was it “too woke” for them,…
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Anne Lister and Ann Walker married on Easter Sunday, 192 years ago
Anne Lister and Ann Walker considered themselves married 192 years ago on Easter Sunday. Although same-sex marriage wasn’t legal at the time, the church they symbolically tied the knot in–Holy Trinity, on Goodramgate–has since been described as the birthplace of lesbian marriage. The church now needs help fixing its 17th-century gate that Walker and Lister…
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Gold Star and Late Bloomer lesbians unite against Young Miko hate
Puerto Rican rapper, singer, songwriter and rising phenomenon Young Miko casually referred to herself as a “gold star lesbian” in an interview with Cosmopolitan this week. SHOCK! HORROR! Despite her expressing support for every individual faction of the LGBT community in the chat when she didn’t have to, it wasn’t good enough. It’s beginning to…
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1993: Sundays at Café Tabac, THAT Vanity Fair cover, Melissa Etheridge coming out… and my birth.
1993. It’s a “pivotal year in lesbian activism,” remembers Wanda Acosta, who co-hosted a weekly lesbian-focused event called No Day Like Sunday at Café Tabac. “[1993] included the first Dyke March, The Lesbian Avengers, LGBTQ March on Washington, as well as lesbian visibility in the arts, music, film and media.” “We saw the Vanity Fair…
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Anne Lister takes ballet in new staging of Gentleman Jack
Anne Lister is not a ghost from lesbian history; her decoded diaries paint a palpably formidable figure known as the first documented modern lesbian. Her presence in the past is in tension with the societal expectations of 19th-century women–she was able to see past double-standards to forge a path she could be excited about. Anne…
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Stories That Made Lesbian Herstory in 2025
2025 is officially done and dusted. What made lesbian herstory? Sport: Entertainment: Puttin’ rings on it: Controversial news:
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“Culturally Gay”: Are lesbians allowed to discuss popular culture?
I was a teenager when weekly celebrity gossip magazines were calling women who weighed 60kg “obese.” How quickly (or slowly) a celebrity woman could lose her pregnancy weight made headlines. Kate Moss proudly declared that her motto was, “nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.” You couldn’t escape it. Celebrity culture and the magazines that…