Tag: lesbian
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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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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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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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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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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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QUIZ: Are you a walking lesbian stereotype?
Ever been driving in your Subaru to camp in the wilderness with the girlfriend you U-Hauled with last week, who is caressing your buzzcut from the passenger seat? You’re missing your three cats, who are being cared for by your ex (and best friend), who also lives in your feminist, vegan-only sharehouse. If so, you…
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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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Battling for Lesbians: The Lesbian Information Service amid 1980s Homophobia in England
In 1987, I was employed as a Rural Youth Worker by Lancashire County Council (LCC). I made the mistake of coming out as lesbian at my first staff conference in 1982/3. My twelve-month probation period was extended by six months, and I could not understand why. Neither could I understand why, after applying for three…