Movies
This movie takes place in an artsy (and drugs-y) Manhattan. Young Syd is treated as an intern at her job for a magazine and tries to impress her colleagues by getting her neighbor (a famous photographer that fell of the map years ago) Lucy to do submit her work for the magazine.
Then, the lines begin to blur between their professional relationship, which then becomes sexual. There’s also heroin that blurs the lines. It’s an artsy movie about seduction and it’s great!
What is ... High Art
This artist is definitely the oldest famous lesbian singer on this list. Her career started in the late 1980s, playing pop-based folk-rock in lesbian bars in LA. Naturally, because of this, there were rumors about her sexuality from the start. So in 1993, she decided to come out. Back then there was still so much taboo around homosexuality, but she stood her ground and also became a big LGBTQ+ activist in the following years.
In 2011, she got a well-deserved star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. By being so open about her sexuality from very early on in her career, she definitely paved the way for a lot of gay female singers today.
What is ... Melissa Etheridge
The pulp Western gets a futuristic queer makeover in this new tale of horse-riding librarian spies fighting back against a frighteningly realistic fascist American regime. If you’re looking for bandits, gunfights, and apocalyptic adventure, Upright has you covered.
Sarah Gailey
The so-called First Ladies of Lesbianism, it’s hard to think "lesbian power couple" without thinking of them.
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Ellen DeGeneres & Portia de Rossi
What is ... patron saint, St. Valentine, a third century priest who made a name for himself by performing secret weddings and who was martyred on February 14, 270
Groundbreaking and low budget (hence filmed in black & white), this movie was created by lesbian couple Guinevere Turner and Rose Troche. It's an all-female picture about Gen X lesbian life around Chicago’s Wicker Park.
What is ... Go Fish
Perhaps one of the most famous lesbian singers at the moment. You might actually know her from the film Lemonade Mouth (2011) instead.
This artist has been singing and acting from a very young age. She was discovered when she was five, which coincidentally was around the same time she found out she likes girls.
What is ... Hayley Kiyoko
In her new graphic memoir, the award-winning author-illustrator of Nimona and creator of Netflix’s She-Ra turns her artistic lens inward, charting the last decade of her young-adult life in a series of personal-comic vignettes. The Fire Never Goes Out sees the author chronicling her experiences wrestling with faith, ambition, and love with a kind of revelatory intimacy.
What is .. Noelle Stevenson
Married in 2011, these award-winning country singers and LGBTQ+ rights advocates are definitely some of the new faces of lesbian power couples.
Chely Wright & Lauren Blitzer
What were conversation hearts originally intended for?
What is ... medical lozenges.
a Boston pharmacist named Oliver Chase invented a machine that simplified the way medical lozenges — used for sore throats and other illnesses — could be made. The result was America's first candy-making machine, because the pharmacist soon started shifting his focus from making lozenges to candy instead! Chase founded the New England Confectionery Company, or Necco, and the candy lozenges soon became what we know today as Necco wafers.
In this mock documentary, Black lesbian Cheryl is trying to put her first film together. So it’s a movie in a movie, which is already interesting, but what’s more interesting: Cheryl is interested in Black women in film.
Cheryl works in a video store and finds out Black women weren’t always credited and that’s how she starts her film (how the fictional Black actress Fae Richards in the 30s was credited). Cheryl learns about Fae’s white lesbian lovers, and at the same time, Cheryl gets a white lesbian lover.
What is .. The Watermelon Woman
Katorah Marrero, better known as ------ is a rapper and entrepreneur. From the start of her career in 2012, she has been open about her sexuality and being one of not many black lesbian music artists. However, in 2019 she decided to no longer self-identify as a lesbian and stated that she doesn’t do labels, although she wouldn’t date men.
She raps about many of the same topics as the men in her industry do, such as sexuality, wealth, and violence. She also thinks that her music shouldn’t just be about her sexuality, but about bringing people closer together.
What is ... Young M.A
Flashing between the protagonist’s childhood in the Middle East and her years as a 20-something DJ in Brooklyn, You Exist Too Much tells the story of a bisexual Palestinian-American girl whose romantic obsessions and self-destructive impulses lead her to an unconventional treatment center called The Ledge, where she must reckon with the traumas that she has inherited from the places and people who raised her.
Who is the author?
What is ... Zaina Arafat
This Actor Ellen Page and her wife, dancer and choreographer, first discovered each other on Instagram in 2017 and were instantly transfixed.
What is .. Ellen Page & Emma Portner
When was the first Valentine sent?
What is... 15th century.
The oldest record of a valentine being sent, according was a poem written by a French medieval duke named Charles to his wife in 1415. Charles penned this sweet note to his lover while he was imprisoned in the Tower of London at just 21 years old. One of the lines in the poem? "I am already sick of love, My very gentle Valentine." Swoon!
This movie is directed by a Chinese-American lesbian (Alice Wu), and is about Wil who’s juggling life as a surgeon and being part of a close-knit Chinese family who doesn’t acknowledge her being a lesbian.
But then Wil falls in love with Vivian – a ballet dancer – a girl she once kissed when she was little. The story actually focuses more about Wil’s relationship with her mother, but I can’t tell you too much or I will spoil things!
What is ... Saving Face
Canadian indie pop lesbian band consisting of twins who both identify as lesbian.
They’ve been around for a while but I think it’s important to mention them because they’ve always been out as lesbian music artists ever since their career started, which was back in 1998.
What is ... Tegan and Sara
A performer, educator, and activist, the author has spent years racking up poetic accolades—so the Urban Word NYC Poet in residence’s debut collection has been a long time coming. In dayliGht, her poems explore what it means to embody Blackness, butchness, and womanhood in a hostile America.
Roya Marsh
The moms of toddler twins got hitched in 2008 after one of them publicly proclaimed herself a lesbian at a Prop 8 rally in Las Vegas.
Wanda & Alex Sykes
Who sold the first heart-shaped box of chocolates?
What is ... Richard Cadbury, son of Cadbury founder John Cadbury, who started packaging chocolates in fancy boxes to increase sales. He introduced the first heart-shaped box of chocolates for V-Day in 1861, and today, more than 36 million heart-shaped boxes of chocolates are sold each year. That's 58 million pounds of chocolate!
There are not enough movies about black lesbians. This movie about two Kenyan girls who fall in love, directed by a female Kenyan director! The film has, sadly, been banned in Kenya for its homosexual theme. They see the film as “promotion of lesbianism”.
The story is about Kena and Ziki, two girls and daughters of two rival politicians who are running for the local elections. They fall in love but it’s a forbidden one.
What is ... Rafiki
This artist is a singer, songwriter, rapper, actor, and producer. She started her career back in 2005 when she appeared on the Purple Ribbon All-Stars album, as well as OutKast’s album Idlewild. Since then she has produced multiple albums and has acted in a long list of film and tv shows.
This artist came out as queer, bisexual, and pansexual in an interview.
What is ... Janelle Monáe
Echoes of Sally Rooney abound in this author's debut novel about a young Irish expat. Newly arrived in Hong Kong to teach English to rich kids, Ava quickly gets involved with Julian, a rich banker who loves to spend money on Ava but doesn’t quite love Ava herself—and with Edith, a Hong Kong–born lawyer whom Ava can’t decide whether she wants to be with or be.
What is ... Naoise Dolan
This woman realized she was gay while writing for Orange Is the New Black. She actually left her husband and ended up finding love with OITNB. The two married in 2017.
Samira Wiley & Lauren Morelli
What is Canada's only gay day called?
What is ... Pink Triangle Day.
The pink triangle is also used to symbolize a major advance in the gay rights moment: In the late 1970s, three gay activists were charged with indecency for an article that appeared in the Toronto-based magazine The Body Politic. A precursor to DailyXtra—which is still published online today—The Body Politic was a monthly journal that became a major catalyst for gay liberation in Canada and an influential voice worldwide.
On February 14, 1979, The Body Politic’s publishers were acquitted of all charges in a court ruling widely considered to be the first major legal victory for the Canadian queer movement. Pink Triangle Day was proclaimed later that year by the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Rights Coalition to celebrate the victory.
The date of the court ruling—Valentine’s Day—was fortuitous and presented the Coalition with an opportunity for further resistance against societal oppression and heteronormativity.