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Trans Activist Miss Major Griffin-Gracy Lived a Long, Beautiful Life

One of our most influential and remarkable trans queer elders — Miss Major Griffin-Gracy — has died at the age…

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

Oct 14, 2025

Collage image of LGBTQ activism including Queer Nation stickers that say "Dyke Power," image of Marsha P. Johnson holding a S.T.A.R. banner, a group of people with a "Christopher Street Liberation Day" banner, and a Silence = Death poster from ACT UP

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Here’s the Badass Lesbian, Bisexual, and Trans Activist Herstory Quiz You Wish You Had in School

Get out your Sharpie markers and flattened cardboard boxes because it’s time to get activist-y AF!

KaeLyn —

Apr 16, 2018

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Here’s How You Scored On ’90s Lesbian Trivia

What did everybody know… and when did you have no idea?

Riese —

Mar 14, 2018

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Total ’90s Lesbian Trivia Quiz

Test your ’90s lesbian/bisexual pop culture knowledge right here, right now.

Riese —

Mar 12, 2018

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“Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History” by Vashti Harrison Is the Black Herstory I Needed as a Child

“Close your eyes and imagine for one moment a world where little black girls spend their entire childhoods seeing women like the ones they will become in just as many…

Reneice Charles —

Feb 20, 2018

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Lavender Menace Gift Guide: For Passionate Feminist Lesbians and Herstorical Queers

Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians. Happy holidays!

Riese —

Dec 13, 2017

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BREAKING: Olivia Wyndham and Edna Thomas Are In Love and It’s F*cking Adorable

That one dance with a woman, Edna gasped, “made me know I was a homosexual.”

Riese —

Dec 1, 2017

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It’s the Season of the Witch and Hekate, Goth-as-Hell Goddess of Outcast Women

Hekate is the goddess of outcast women and taking power where you find it.

Siobhan —

Nov 2, 2017

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Thank You Jeanne Córdova, Love Autostraddle Dot Com

We’re closing out LGBT History Month with Jeanne Córdova — a legendary publisher and activist who died last year and included Autostraddle as one of many beneficiaries of her estate, which…

Riese —

Oct 31, 2017

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24 Very Gay Excerpts from Eleanor Roosevelt’s Love Letters with Lorena Hickok

"Most clearly I remember your eyes with a kind of teasing smile in them, and the feeling of that soft spot just northeast of the corner of your mouth against my lips."

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

24 Very Gay Excerpts from Eleanor Roosevelt’s Love Letters with Lorena Hickok

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How Magazines Served As Sites of Trans Community-Making 50 Years Ago

These magazines provided critical representation for trans and gender expansive individuals across the United States who saw themselves represented in their pages.

Emma Cieslik —

Aug 8, 2025

78 Years Of Lesbian Magazines Keeping Our Queer Legacy Alive

The desire to connect with other people like us has been the driving force of queer media since the first lesbian print magazine ever launched in 1947. Here are just…

Riese —

Aug 4, 2025

Rosie O’Donnell In Blazers, 1992 – 1999

In this much-anticipated follow-up to “12 Monumental Moments In Lesbian Blazer-Wearing History” we are narrowing our focus onto one key subject in 90s blazer history: Rosie O’Donnell.

Riese —

Jul 14, 2025

The Hidden History of Lesbian Phone Lines

London Friend’s Lesbian Line, which opened in 1989 and closed in 1999, was one of many gay and lesbian phone lines across the UK.

Lauren Herold —

May 1, 2025

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Trans Activist Miss Major Griffin-Gracy Lived a Long, Beautiful Life

Here’s the Badass Lesbian, Bisexual, and Trans Activist Herstory Quiz You Wish You Had in School

Here’s How You Scored On ’90s Lesbian Trivia

Total ’90s Lesbian Trivia Quiz

“Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History” by Vashti Harrison Is the Black Herstory I Needed as a Child

Lavender Menace Gift Guide: For Passionate Feminist Lesbians and Herstorical Queers

BREAKING: Olivia Wyndham and Edna Thomas Are In Love and It’s F*cking Adorable

It’s the Season of the Witch and Hekate, Goth-as-Hell Goddess of Outcast Women

Thank You Jeanne Córdova, Love Autostraddle Dot Com

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24 Very Gay Excerpts from Eleanor Roosevelt’s Love Letters with Lorena Hickok

How Magazines Served As Sites of Trans Community-Making 50 Years Ago

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Rosie O’Donnell In Blazers, 1992 – 1999

The Hidden History of Lesbian Phone Lines

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