Is the label ‘lesbian’ going out of fashion, with women drawn to terms suggesting greater fluidity?
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Sex between women has never been specifically outlawed.
A scholar of young adult fiction presents a fresh list of LGBTQ ‘must-reads’ for the summer of 2023.
All countries that criminalise women having sex with other women should immediately repeal these laws.
From the “goo goo” boys mocked for their love of theatre to cross-dressing troops and “trouser women”, Australia has a rich queer history.
Grecian love is often idealised as an respectable model for queer love. However, there’s more pleasure and reality to be found in ancient Rome’s dirtier version
Katherine Bradley and Edith Cooper were aunt and niece as well as lovers who published under a male pseudonym.
Minority sexual identities are on average less satisfied with their lives — but being accepted is crucial to this.
Often referred to as the first modern lesbian, Anne Lister had a lot of political ambition.
Botswana’s High Court could finally decriminalise same-sex relations.
The hit film about a lesbian Queen Anne is the latest in a wave of films, TV series and books which make woman on woman sexuality a central theme.
Unlike earlier lesbian and gay movements whose politics depended on visible identities, queer theory grew out of a critique of this – and perhaps that’s where Djuna Barnes sits.
The need for lesbian love stories that aren’t doomed is just as great now as it has ever been.
Carol doesn’t fall into any of the stereotypes we’ve come to expect from portrayals of lesbians on screen. Watch it.
Dykes on Bikes have been starting Sydney’s Mardi Gras parade since 1988 – and many for many participants, the yearly ride to Sydney is as important as the parade itself.
I recently found myself at a bookshop at Sydney’s domestic airport with less than ten minutes until my plane boarded. Scanning around frantically for something to read, my eyes were immediately drawn to…
At first blush, the increased visibility of sexual minorities in popular culture would appear to reflect a growing openness and acceptance of non-heterosexual forms of sexuality. Since the late 1990s…
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