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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 and Riese

Oct 14, 2025

a black and white image of DonnaSue, a Black butch elder, is at the center of this collage. the artist has layered newsprint, paper, and lines over the photo to create a gorgeous playful picture of DonnaSue

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“Mother Has Lived, What Can I Say?”

DonnaSue Johnson describes herself as a “big, black, beautiful, Bohemian, bougie, Buddhist butch.”

danijanae

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Feb 13, 2023

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Why Do Lesbian Bars Keep Disappearing?

There are so many myths about why lesbian bars close and/or don’t survive.

Stef Rubino

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Dec 7, 2022

Two protesters with Act Up march in 1988

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Marika Cifor Wants You To Activate Your Nostalgia for ACT UP

Marika Cifor’s new book Viral Cultures: Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS explores how LGBTQ and HIV/AIDS archives shape our understanding of history.

Lauren Herold

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Dec 6, 2022

The original All-American League Girls vs the cast of the televised version

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How Realistic is “A League Of Their Own”? Let’s Do a Historical Deep Dive!

Join me on a journey deep into herstory while we answer questions on topics including racism in the AAGPBL, whether or not there really were that many lesbians, queer bar…

Riese

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Aug 16, 2022

A collage of bright flowers in front of one black and white image: Among a crowd on the grass outside the Civic Center, two women share a smile together, one woman is black and lays across the lap of a woman who is white.

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54 Portraits of Lesbians in the ‘80s

We’ve always been here.

Carmen Phillips

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Jun 19, 2022

Four American Girl dolls against a white background

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Which Historical Lesbian Bars Would American Girl Dolls Have Visited?

Let’s imagine these adorable queer icons as they’d be turning 18, maybe figuring things out, maybe beginning to search for queer community.

Yashwina

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Jan 12, 2022

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What Mattee Jim, Navajo Trans Elder, Teaches Us About Remembering

This #TransDayOfRemembrance, trans lives are more than a list of names. We are vessels of ancestral memory.

xoai pham

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Nov 20, 2020

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Monica Roberts Remembered Us. Now We Remember Her.

Every time I crossed paths with Monica Roberts, I was always surprised by how tight she held me as we hugged — Now, so many young Black trans people can…

xoai pham

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Oct 9, 2020

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LGBT History

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

“Mother Has Lived, What Can I Say?”

Why Do Lesbian Bars Keep Disappearing?

Marika Cifor Wants You To Activate Your Nostalgia for ACT UP

How Realistic is “A League Of Their Own”? Let’s Do a Historical Deep Dive!

54 Portraits of Lesbians in the ‘80s

Which Historical Lesbian Bars Would American Girl Dolls Have Visited?

What Mattee Jim, Navajo Trans Elder, Teaches Us About Remembering

Monica Roberts Remembered Us. Now We Remember Her.

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