People regularly ask me about accessing LGBTQ women’s herstory when I talk to them about the project, because it can be challenging to find good accounts of queer history, particularly when it comes to female-identified folks. So I’m listing some of the best sources that I have come to know through my own research for …
I know from experience that it can often seem like there’s not much media out there about LGBTQ women, but in my time working on this doc, I’ve come across a growing number of docs that offer glimpses into different communities. This list is in no way exhaustive, it’s just a running list of things …
Since starting this project, I’ve noticed more and more projects to map LGBTQ spaces – even the National Parks Service is getting in on the game. Truth be told, I was even planning to make a map a big part of this project, which may still happen, but it’s also been fascinating to watch as so …
A friend of mine here in New York is working on an upcoming performance and used Facebook to crowdsource the names of lesbian and queer bars past and present. An avalanche of responses poured in, and with her permission, I am embedding her post so you can see people’s replies. And feel free to add …
One of the things that I’ve been asking people since this project began is, where do you gather with your community? It’s intentionally an open-ended question. People bring to it a variety of meanings of community. A number of people feel deeply ambivalent about the question, and for some, it pisses them off. If you …
This post is meant to document some of the media and commentary circulating around the closure of San Francisco’s Lexington Club, also called The Lex. Below is a post from the Lexington Club’s owner Lila Thirkield on Facebook. (In case the embedded post doesn’t work for you, click here to view a screenshot of it from about a …
I’m posting this for anyone who believes that we’re past the decades-old stereotypes of lesbians as ugly man-hating brutes that roam the streets just waiting to cut off male genitalia at every opportunity. EXHIBIT A Andrew Sullivan re-blogged a couple of quotes from June Thomas’ interview with me about the project for Slate. Shortly after posting the …
Earlier today Curve Magazine posted the online version of my article talking about the disappearance of lesbian spaces and it has gotten a pretty strong response—lots of likes and lots of comments. I’m embedding the post and the accompanying comments here so that you can have a look at them as well, many include people’s memories …
One of the first people I spoke to upon starting the documentary was Alexis Danzig. After mentioning the project to a researcher working at the Lesbian Herstory Archives, I learned that in 1996 Danzig had taken a solo motorcycle journey across thousands of miles of the US. Along the way she made 28 stops (give …
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The conflict around the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival’s exclusion of trans* people has been ongoing since the 1991 Festival when Nancy Burkholder was expelled from the land and the event because she was transsexual. (Read Burkholder’s description of what transpired that night.) The following year, the producers published a statement in the program articulating that …