lesbians

The First Lesbian: How Sappho’s Poetry Paved the Way for Modern Queer Literature

Daisy Dunn on Sappho's Genre-Defying Verses and the Invention of the Term “Lesbian”

 
By Daisy Dunn  July 30, 2024
Queer History

Queen Christina, Lesbian Icon? On Sweden’s Delightfully Nonconformist Monarch

By Eleanor Medhurst  June 7, 2024
Theater History

How Eva Le Gallienne Revolutionized Early 20th-Century Theater

By Barrie Kreinik  June 7, 2024
Queer Literature

More Than “Friendless” or “Fallen…” Giving Voice to the Women Who Misbehaved in History

By Kelly E. Hill  April 12, 2024
Self-Discovery

“Something More Bare and More Raw Than a Man.” Constance Debré on Learning to Love Women

By Constance Debré  April 5, 2024
What to Watch

Why Cate Blanchett’s Lesbian Fandom Matters to TÁR

By Victoria Wiet  February 17, 2023
Queer Community

Why Don’t Advertisers Target Queer Women?

By Koa Beck  January 6, 2021
Role Models

Loud, Lewd, Cheating, Smoking, Bisexual Degenerate: Marlene Dietrich, My Teenage Role Model

By Amanda Lee Koe  August 7, 2019
Excerpts

It Was All Greek to Her: With the Sappho-Obsessed in 1900s Paris

By Artemis Leontis  March 15, 2019
Close Reading

The Queerness of Ernest Hemingway

By Mikaella Clements  October 4, 2018
Feature

10 Great Reads From the Feminist Lesbian Sci-Fi Boom of the 1970s

By Sandra Gail Lambert  September 7, 2018
Criticism

On Finding a Hero in Alison Bechdel

By Genevieve Hudson  March 20, 2018
Essay

Finding Refuge in a Queer Vampire Novella

By Gabrielle Bellot  November 1, 2017

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