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Lesbian

How do historians piece together long-lost stories of those who would be considered part of the LGBTQIA+ community?

5 Overlooked LGBTQ Stories to Celebrate Pride Month

How do you learn—and save—a history that was often too dangerous to write down?

April White June 16, 2023

Podcast: Bloodroot Feminist Restaurant

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.

The Podcast Team September 29, 2022

Both the cover image of "Whoever Said Dykes Can't Cook?" and its contents emphasized how cooking can be a joyful, loving act.

How Lesbian Luminaries Put Together a Groundbreaking Cookbook

'Whoever Said Dykes Can't Cook?' combined art, food, and fundraising.

Rachel Hope Cleves April 26, 2021

Women kiss, celebrate, and hold up a banner for the Lesbian Herstory Archives in front of the Duchess Bar, then a popular lesbian bar in Greenwich Village, at Pride in 1982.

This Project Maps 25 Years of New York's Lesbian Nightlife

The interactive tool allows readers to explore how queer social life has changed over time.

Reina Gattuso March 9, 2021

Bridgeport, Connecticut

Bloodroot Feminist Vegetarian Restaurant

This last stalwart of the now-forgotten feminist restaurant movement has been serving food in an activist atmosphere since 1977.

Posing for a picture at Bloodroot restaurant, 1977 or '78.

The Scholar Mapping America's Forgotten Feminist Restaurants

Challenging patriarchy, one eatery at a time.

Reina Gattuso June 21, 2019

Women marching at Christopher Street Liberation Day, an early gay protest in New York City. June 20, 1971.

How Lesbian Potlucks Nourished the LGBTQ Movement

Now a queer stereotype, the lesbian potluck has radical roots.

Reina Gattuso May 2, 2019