Vicky Hester, owner of the Richmond, Virginia, lesbian bar Babes of Carytown, has died. Keep up with the latest in LGBTQ+ news and politics. Sign up for The Advocate's email newsletter. Hester died Tuesday, surrounded by loved ones, according to an Instagram post from the bar, which was the second-oldest lesbian bar in the U.S. Details of a celebration of life will be announced later. “Please continue to join her family, friends, and staff at Babes of Carytown in remembering her tenacity fo...| Advocate.com
Women’s sports are overwhelmingly queer. From the WNBA to the National Women’s Soccer League and now women’s rugby, sapphics are dominating in the world of sports. There are 54 queer women currently competing in the 2025 Women’s Rugby World Cup, and in case you thought it couldn’t get any gayer, more than a dozen rugby players are either dating their teammates or their rivals. These sapphics love hard and play hard, sometimes playing together and other times battling it out against ...| Gay Pride - LGBT and Queer Voices
Trailblazer Maybelle Blair is passing the torch to the next generation of players.| Gay Pride - LGBT and Queer Voices
In Columbus, Jack’s/Summit Station is remembered as a welcoming and well-respected lesbian social spot. The post ‘Free Beer Tomorrow’ documentary and research project honors Ohio’s longest lesbian-owned-and-operated bar appeared first on The Buckeye Flame.| The Buckeye Flame
These two queer women are getting very candid about sapphic sex!| Gay Pride - LGBT and Queer Voices
This year Lesbian Visibility Week is bringing together the UK’s largest queer and lesbian groups around the theme #UnitedNotUniform| QueerAF
To view “I Kissed a Girl” as predominantly upbeat is to miss why it’s representation of bad feelings is important.| Public Books
By Llewyn Blossfeld When I was 21 years old and searching for a thesis topic during the COVID-19 pandemic, I thought about the first lesbian photograph I remember seeing. The post Joan E. Biren’s <em>Eye to Eye</em> appeared first on The Gay & Lesbian Review.| The Gay & Lesbian Review
Ruling frees partner who had been detained by anti-gay parents in India| Erasing 76 Crimes
The Bellingham Public Library celebrates LGBTQ+ Pride in June. As always, our staff have great recommendations to get you started.| Bellingham Public Library
Pride parades are fabulous, but let's not forget the Dyke Marches.| Outtraveler.com
Hello friends! Sharing a rainbow list of LGBTQ+ book recommendations for June has always been something that we wanted to do, but didn’t have the chance to put together. This year, however, we started to prepare for Pride in time, and so we’ve been able to put together a pretty cool list of LGBTQ+ novels… Continue reading A Rainbow List of LGBT+ Book Recommendations for Pride| Wordy and Whimsical
LGBTQ people deserve freedom, joy, and ease in our lives. We deserve to be ourselves, without minimizing who we are, apologizing for who we are, or pretending to be someone we are not. All of these become much more possible for us when we live somewhere our identities are respected, with laws that affirm our right to express our identities without fear of discrimination or reprisal. I haven't found a ton of resources out there geared toward folks who want to move to the safest states for LGBT...| QUEER ADVENTURERS | LGBTQ Travel + Outdoor Adventures
James Ijames Delights with Riotous Black Family Comedy by Jenyth Jo After twenty minutes of “Fat Ham,” a comical version of “Hamlet” set at a North Carolina backyard BBQ, it’s clear Juicy / Hamlet (Devin A. Cunningham) has been skewered and charred by the toxic flames of his out-of-date masculine role models. When Phaedra Tillery-Boughton’s Rabby (Polonius as hot pink mama) enters the party, we want this church lady to survive. Will the final act show bodies strewn on the stage li...| theatrius.com
James Ijames Finds Funny Bone in Black BBQ-Wedding| Theatrius
James Ijames Gives “Hamlet” Brand-New Black American Look | Theatrius
Contexts is a quarterly magazine that makes cutting-edge social research accessible to general readers.| Contexts
Of the three main characters in the story—the father, the elder son, the younger son—which do we each think best reflects my experience?| New Ways Ministry
“Queer history has a problem with memory,” Jennifer Evans contends in her rich and bold monograph that encourages its readers to think, and to think [...] The post Queer History that Surprises, Frustrates, Embarrasses, and Delights appeared first on The New Fascism Syllabus.| The New Fascism Syllabus
Sue Bohlin provides a compassionate, biblically based look at what is happening as LGBT ideology has taken root in the culture.| Probe Ministries
On 11 March 2024, Open Development Cambodia Organization (ODC) in collaboration with Gender and Development for Cambodia (GADC) with funding from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) through Family Health International – Civil Society Support Activity (FHI360-CSS), Advancing Land-based Investment Governance (ALIGN), and Landesa hosted an important discussion on “Women’s rights in land| Open Development Cambodia (ODC)
Find your community on the trail! These 11 gay and lesbian hiking groups are run by gay and lesbian hikers around the globe.| QUEER ADVENTURERS | LGBTQ Travel + Outdoor Adventures
Happy Halloween 👻| Gabrielle Kari