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.
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 is why we didn’t lose our minds this year.
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. Here are 22 lesbian, bisexual and trans women athletes who changed their games and changed the game for LGBTQ people by choosing to live openly.
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.
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!
BREAKING: Natalie Barney and Liane de Pougy Break Up Because Amour Is a Lie
We could hardly believe it was real, and now we can hardly believe that it’s over.
BREAKING: Is Charlotte Cushman Cheating On Her Wife Emma With Her Gal Pal Emma?
Charlotte Cushman is at it again!
LGBTQ History Month Starts Now: An Epic Autostraddle Reading List
It’s LGBT History Month, a month-long annual observance of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender history, a topic which is near and dear to our hearts because it is definitely NOT near OR dear to the hearts of anybody in charge of public education.
18 Influential Lesbian & Bisexual Jewish Women To Remember Today
Some very cool ladies to remember in all that we do
Edith Windsor, Lesbian Trailblazer Who Changed Your Life, Has Died
Gay rights pioneer Edith Windsor died today in Manhattan. She was 88 years old.
38 Lesbian and Bisexual Women From History Who Did That Thing First
What do the first Chinese-American filmmaker, the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and the first woman to wear man-tailored shorts at Wimbledon all have in common? They had romantic feelings about other women, just like you!
26 Triumphantly ’90s Lesbian Book Covers
What a colorful decade for us all!
18 Lesbian Power Couples From History Who Made Really Great Art For You
These are the ladies who made kickass sculptures, movies, music, children’s books, regular grown-up-books and, of course, wrote fabulous, sick, neurotic, tortured love poems to one another.
Fill In Your Butch History With This Coloring Book
Why learn about butch lesbian herstory when you can learn about butch lesbian herstory by way of babes?
“Hollywood Lesbians”: This 1994 Interview Book Valiantly Attempted To Out Over 31 Legendary Ladies
“Numerous Hollywood actresses — Garbo, Gish, Dietrich, Jean Arthur, um, Kay Francis, Stanwyck, Bankhead, Del Rio, Janet Gaynor, etc., etc., — have enjoyed lesbian or bi relationships. Have you ever…?”
6 Queer Women Literally Saving the World Through Environmental Justice
To solve today’s environmental issues, we need new voices, preferably voices from different parts of the population than we’ve heard from in years past. Let’s hear from some queer women rocking environmental justice.
For Your Consideration: A Topless Duel Between Noblewomen in 1897
Then, as now, a certain sort of man was fascinated by these so-called petticoat duels, and The Illustrated Police News, Britain’s first tabloid and official worst newspaper, liked to report on them in full. With pictures.
5 Women From Mythology You Should Totally Date
Hatshepsut is the original Mommi
Roundtable: The Lesbian Toaster
Everyone on staff tells me WITHOUT LOOKING where they think the lesbian toaster thing came from.
Lesbian Bar Names of the Past, Ranked
RIP sweet girls.