Category: Countries
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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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The Origin and Defence of “Gold Star”
I am proud to have never forced myself to sleep with a man. As tribal creatures, we do things against our desires to belong. All lesbians experience heteronormative pressure. My choice not to try it–when I knew I wasn’t attracted to the male body–was a “FUCK YOU! I’M FINE THE WAY I AM!” I refuse…
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Black, Lesbian, and Still Here: Tori’s story
As a little Black girl growing up in small-town Georgia, USA, I was told to go to church and respect my elders, even if they were wrong. I was supposed to get good grades in school and, once I graduated from high school, find a husband and have kids. That’s what they call happiness in…
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Yesterday’s Cigarette: A Puerto Rican lesbian comes out in 1990s NYC
I usually do not smoke yesterday’s cigarette, but today I am desperate. Did I make the right decision to leave the New York City/New Jersey area to head North? “Don’t look back,” I tell myself, but that’s hard to do when the most electrifying part of my life happened there. It all started in the…
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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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Raised by Butch-Femme parents in small-town 1960s USA: Pam’s story
Pam was 2-years-old when her mother found her life partner and co-parent: a Butch lesbian Pam affectionately refers to as ‘Pap’. Pam, who is gay herself and was named after her mother’s former lover, describes a happy, normal small-town childhood that was both attacked by straight society and embraced by some friends with kind hearts.…
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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…