happy international lesbian day!!! whether you’re out, closeted, still figuring yourself out, or whatever, i want all of y’all lesbians to know that you are loved, gorgeous, and amazing keep kicking ass!
happy international lesbian day to all my lesbian sisters out there! this includes those who uses pronouns other than she/her, as well. no matter your religion, pronouns, whether you’re nonbinary, etc., you’re valid!! i hope you all have a wonderful day, this day is for us, and for all the lesbians before and after us. keep on being wonderful!
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“I really wish you and Bishop would be more careful with those wolfed out duels of yours.”
“I’m sorry. Would you believe we really were careful this time?”
“… Ugh. I would. Just come here.”
It’s International Lesbian Day, and that is MORE than enough excuse to finally draw my girls like I’ve been itching to since the start of October.
I know it’s not exactly cool for creators to be invested in their own characters relationships, but Lilith and Essie are just. So good. They are prime witch/werewolf solidarity that balance out each other’s energies so well. One day, they’ll be the old couple that lives off the land in a storybook cottage at the edge of town.
In 2008, after 55 years together, Del Martin, age 87, and Phyllis Lyon, age 84, were finally wed in San Francisco, but it was for the second time. Four years earlier, before same-sex marriage was legalized in the state of California, during a large ceremony honoring their long-standing contributions to LGBTQ activism, they were the first of 90 gay couples to be married illegally by the city’s…
ILD: Julie Bindel: “Martina remains a role model for all lesbians. She set a standard, and she made a difference, by breaking barriers and being brave.”
ILD: Julie Bindel: “Martina remains a role model for all lesbians. She set a standard, and she made a difference, by breaking barriers and being brave.”
By Julie Bindel
I will never forget watching Martina Navratilova play at Wimbledon the year after she came out as a lesbian. It was the 1982 tournament and the backlash against her had been brutal.
Very deeply courageous and principled, Martina once estimated that she lost around US$10 million in endorsement deals as corporate executives rushed to distance themselves from her at a time when…
ILD: Javiera Mena on lesbian representation in Latin American music
ILD: Javiera Mena on lesbian representation in Latin American music
The name of Javiera Mena is a beacon for the Latin American LGBTQ community, even more so among in the musical community.
Since the beginning, Mena has sung about lesbian love, while fighting to defeat the stigma around that. Her battle for the visibility of the LGBTQ community, of which she is a part, has led her to be considered an icon.
The Chilean singer-songwriter presented her Extended…
July 16 2021: TUCSON, Az. – The global audience of the It Gets Better Project received a glimpse into the lives of LGBTQ+ athletes who won’t let setbacks keep them from achieving their dreams in its new series “Passion. Power. Performance,” which streamed last month.
The docu-series shares inspirational stories behind proud LGBTQ+ athletes who are out and training for the 2021 Tokyo Olympics,…
ILD: Lesbian Couple Talk About Being Out and Same-Sex Parents in Russia
ILD: Lesbian Couple Talk About Being Out and Same-Sex Parents in Russia
After a Russian grocery chain apologized for featuring gay parents in an ad, two lesbian parents told Meduza what it’s like to live in a country where their very portrayal qualifies as offensive.In late June, the Russian grocery store chain VkusVill put out an advertisement featuring a lesbian couple as part of its “Recipes for Family Happiness” campaign. The ad set off an avalanche of homophobic…
ILD: Lillian Faderman, The ‘Mother of Lesbian History’ Looks Back — and Forward
ILD: Lillian Faderman, The ‘Mother of Lesbian History’ Looks Back — and Forward
July 16, 2021: Lillian Faderman is a mother and grandmother, but these aren’t the only titles that make her proud: The La Jolla resident is known, depending on who you talk to, as the “mother of lesbian history” or the “foremother of gay and lesbian studies.”
Over the past four decades, Faderman’s books have revealed the hidden history of female same-sex romance and uncovered how American…
ILD: Meet Portia Modise, Africa’s highest goalscorer and lesbian icon
ILD: Meet Portia Modise, Africa’s highest goalscorer and lesbian icon
Former South Africa striker Portia Modise doesn’t care if the football community loves her. She doesn’t care if you like her outspoken manner, or the way she dresses, or that she loves women.
She’s the only African footballer to score 100 international goals, and represented her country for 15 years from the age of 16. But if you don’t want to give her respect for that, or her countless…
ILD: Bridget Coll: Catholic nun was lesbian, militant and a history maker
ILD: Bridget Coll: Catholic nun was lesbian, militant and a history maker
Catholic nun, gay and militant. Bridget Coll, Irish born but a proud Canadian, was a trailblazer.
She and her partner, Chris Morrissey, made history when they challenged Canadian immigration law which had only recognised heterosexual married partners.
As nuns in the 1980s, they stood with the oppressed in Chile against dictator Augusto Pinochet’s regime.
ILD: Rediscovering Eve Adams; the Radical Lesbian Activist
ILD: Rediscovering Eve Adams; the Radical Lesbian Activist
Eve Adams (centre)
In 1925, Eve Adams, a Polish-Jewish émigré who had spent the past four years travelling across the United States selling leftist radical literature, opened a tearoom in Greenwich Village. Eve’s Hangout, as it was sometimes known, was situated in the basement of 129 MacDougal Street. The small, sparingly lit cellar quickly became a destination among the city’s bohemian…
For a long time Hana Klein thought she was the only lesbian in Israel, and maybe in the whole world. She was born in 1951, grew up in Tel Aviv and at 11 realized that her feelings were a bit different from those of her girlfriends. But she didn’t know why. Klein says that in the Israel of the 1950s and ‘60s, “there were no words for it.”
The first hint that she wasn’t alone was at a kiosk…
