Category: Music

  • Lesbian Media Lesbians Love

    Lesbian Media Lesbians Love

    *Updated June 8, 2024* We asked our supporters for their favourite lesbian movies, television shows, video games, apps, podcasts, YouTubers, books, artists, websites, musicians, magazines, and any other lesbian media they love. Because authors at LH haven’t engaged with all of this media, we cannot guarantee the politics or enjoyability behind each suggestion. Some of…

  • How Should We Tell the Stories of “Bad” Lesbians from History in a Culture of Us vs. Them?

    How Should We Tell the Stories of “Bad” Lesbians from History in a Culture of Us vs. Them?

    How do we write on complex, even harmful, lesbians from history in the age of “us vs. them”? How do we present the facts in a way that doesn’t omit the person or the truth? Is writing on a person from history ever objective, considering the historian has their own interests, motives and interpretations, and…

  • A Cellist’s Resistance: the bravery of Frieda Belinfante

    A Cellist’s Resistance: the bravery of Frieda Belinfante

    The year is 1940. World War II has just begun. The talented Dutch cello player Frieda Belinfante has to give up the fame she has recently obtained as the first female orchestra director in her country… Frieda Belinfante was born in Amsterdam, 1904. Her father Aaron Belinfante was a concert piano player who introduced his…