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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

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Edie Windsor Is This Week’s Modern LGBTQ Trailerblazer #WCW

“Marriage is a magic word. And it is magic throughout the world. It has to do with our dignity as human beings, to be who we are.”

Heather Hogan

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Apr 24, 2019

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All Bones and Blood and Breath: Remembering Barbara Hammer

Barbara Hammer was the evidence that living a queer life could be good, and long, and full of wonder at a time when I felt like this was all was…

Whitney Pow

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Mar 28, 2019

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Young, Gifted, Black, and Closeted: Barbara Jordan’s Political Rise in a Country Not Yet Ready For Her

In 1974 it felt like every American was watching President Nixon’s impeachment hearings. With a single speech, a black lesbian changed the opinion of a nation. She was only getting…

Natalie

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Feb 13, 2019

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The Rumors Were Enough: Josephine Baker, Frida Kahlo, Their Romance and Me

Maybe Josephine Baker and Frida Kahlo were actually lovers? Maybe they weren’t. What always mattered most was the idea that they even could.

Carmen Phillips

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Feb 4, 2019

Hothead... "fuckin' what???" tell us, how does one become a homicidal lesbian terrorist? How does one NOT YOU ASSHOLE? What fucking planet did you grow up on?!?

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Revisiting “Hothead Paisan: Homicidal Lesbian Terrorist” in a World Needing Her More Than Ever

Despite her early resonance, Hothead Paisan has faded from lesbian and queer cultural memory. Today we’re bringing her back.

Maddy

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Jan 3, 2019

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The Queer Spirits of Christmas Past

Demonic witch queens are always queer. Fact.

Siobhan

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Dec 24, 2018

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The Queer History of the Shaven Head

Shaven heads on women have challenged and informed ideas of beauty, power and tradition for centuries. Here’s the history of a very queer style.

Jennifer Thorp

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Dec 18, 2018

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Holigay Gift Guide: For Queer Radicals, Trans Revolutionaries, and Menacing Lesbians

The age-old challenge: what to get for your rad, free-thinking, take-no-BS, burn down the cisheteropatriarchy, revolutionary friend or loved one? Capitalism sucks. These gifts don’t!

KaeLyn

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Dec 6, 2018

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LGBT History

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

Edie Windsor Is This Week’s Modern LGBTQ Trailerblazer #WCW

All Bones and Blood and Breath: Remembering Barbara Hammer

Young, Gifted, Black, and Closeted: Barbara Jordan’s Political Rise in a Country Not Yet Ready For Her

The Rumors Were Enough: Josephine Baker, Frida Kahlo, Their Romance and Me

Revisiting “Hothead Paisan: Homicidal Lesbian Terrorist” in a World Needing Her More Than Ever

The Queer Spirits of Christmas Past

The Queer History of the Shaven Head

Holigay Gift Guide: For Queer Radicals, Trans Revolutionaries, and Menacing Lesbians

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