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Flamboyance and Fortitude: Butch-Femme Relationships in 2024

Butch-Femme relationships play an important role in lesbian history. What…
‘I Kissed a Girl’ is better than ‘The Ultimatum: Queer Love’

What do you think of when you read the words…
Why ‘Blue is the Warmest Color’ is a shit film

‘Blue is the Warmest Color’ is a shit film and…
Why is lesbian culture and community important?

It is unequivocally healthy and normal to find a sense…
Is lesbian separatism possible in 2023?

Q&A style posts on LesbianHerstory.com are an opportunity for readers…
Lesbian Media Lesbians Love

*Updated August 23, 2025* We asked our supporters for their…
Lesbian Visibility Week 2023: Female Homosexuality is Not Bigoted

For Lesbian Day of Visibility 2023, the team behind HER’s…
Boston Marriages and the Language of Lesbian Relationships

Maybe it was two women in your history textbook. Maybe…
Lesbian and Gay Nightlife in 1990s Northern England: An interview with Stuart Linden Rhodes

Stuart Linden Rhodes is a photographer and writer who captured…
“Lesbians Have Always Existed”: an interview with artist Jenifer Prince

Jenifer Prince is a visual artist and illustrator from Brazil.…
Sapphic Wales in the Nineteenth Century

Throughout history, lesbian and bisexual women have been marginalised, silenced,…
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…
The Male Gaze and Lesbian Censorship in Film

It’s of little surprise to most sapphic movie buffs that…
Today’s Lavender Menace: Why do lesbians support gay men?

I received a lot of support after I wrote The…
A Cellist’s Resistance: the bravery of Frieda Belinfante

The year is 1940. World War II has just begun.…
QUIZ: Are you a walking lesbian stereotype?

Ever been driving in your Subaru to camp in the…
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…
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…
Anne Lister takes ballet in new staging of Gentleman Jack

Anne Lister is not a ghost from lesbian history; her…
Battling for Lesbians: The Lesbian Information Service amid 1980s Homophobia in England

In 1987, I was employed as a Rural Youth Worker…
Homosexual boundaries do not abuse bisexual and transgender people

The Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras is the biggest…
Stories That Made Lesbian Herstory in 2025

2025 is officially done and dusted. What made lesbian herstory?…
“Culturally Gay”: Are lesbians allowed to discuss popular culture?

I was a teenager when weekly celebrity gossip magazines were…
Is Taylor Swift secretly a lesbian?

I don’t particularly care for Taylor Swift. I don’t mean…
Betty “Who?”: Lesbian and gay solidarity is back, baby!

As someone who has spent a lot of time and…
Every lesbian is born this way. Our sexual orientation is not fluid.

I had crushes on women and girls when I was…
The JoJo Siwa Saga: When lesbianism is denied a definition

I want to preface the recent news on JoJo Siwa…
Lesbian perspectives on “queer”

Being a lesbian is the least weird thing about me.…
I was there: Canada’s Stonewall, the Brunswick Four

Women had fewer choices in 1974. We were excluded from…
Should dangerously homophobic countries get to host global competitions?

There is no sport more synonymous with freedom than surfing.…
Off the Calendar: What does Trump’s billionaire boys’ club mean for lesbians?

I’m the first to admit that I find months dedicated…
Heard of the male gaze? Get ready for the lesbian lens with Halie Torris

How does a lesbian artist express lesbian sexuality in her…
Lesbian fetishism is not lesbian acceptance!

Lesbian fetishism is a power move resulting from the tension…
Why lesbian separatism is not escapist

There is a false narrative in the feminist community that…
Make Feminism Venomous Again: first Roe v. Wade, next lesbian and gay rights

On the 24th of June, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court…
Lesbian Tenth Muse: On Juana Inés de la Cruz and Sappho.

I love Lisi, but I do not pretend That Lisi…
Interview: T.S. from Black Lesbian Herstory

To commemorate Black history month, Lesbian Herstory spoke to T.S.…
Lesbian Feminist Spirituality of the 1970s

One of my favorite lesbian stereotypes is our love for…
Girlfriends or Gal Pals? Decoding Intimacy Between Women in Old Photographs

Love between women has existed forever, despite the crumbs of…
Patricia Highsmith: a Painful Lesson

Patricia Highsmith was the author of The Price of Salt…
The Lesbian Pinball: Gay Liberation vs Women’s Liberation

Lesbians are pulled between solidarity with gay men, because of…

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