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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

90s nostalgia

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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

90s nostalgia

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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

black history month

children's books

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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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basketball

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22 Lesbian, Bisexual and Trans Women Athletes Who Changed the Game

Women athletes who came out before very recently risked everything to do so: their endorsements, their fans, their spots on their teams, their livelihoods, and sometimes even their own lives.…

Heather Hogan —

Oct 31, 2017

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book lists

25 LGBT History Books to Add to Your Epic Queer History Reading List

Celebrate LGBT History Month by reading LGBT history books!

Ryan Yates —

Oct 27, 2017

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LGBT History Month 2017

Coming to Power / Jeans with Hanky in Left Pocket

book features

Our Sex Is Good: Kink Writing in the 1980s–1990s

How two 1970s and 1980s lesbian BDSM books changed the national conversation around feminism, lesbianism, and kink.

Ari —

Oct 24, 2017

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LGBT History Month 2017

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BREAKING: Alleged Murder Thrusts Actress Libby Holman Back into Loving Arms of Heiress Ex-Girlfriend and We’re So Here For It

When you’re a Broadway starlet indicted for the murder of your wealthy young boyfriend even though it was a suicide, who’re you gonna call? Your wealthy ex-girlfriend!

Riese —

Oct 23, 2017