Martha Shelley doesn’t care how people remember her. What she cares about is doing what’s right, right now. Born in Brooklyn, in 1943, Shelley grew
Penny was just 11 years old when she decided that people online were right — that she was “transgender.” At 13, she was prescribed hormone
“Once again, male-run media has slammed J.K. Rowling. Her crime this time? Liking a tweet defending the lesbian community.”
How I found myself getting in touch with my spiritual side amidst the Covid quarantine, by clearing my chakras and shifting my mindset.
The Department of Justice has sided with three high school girls in a lawsuit asserting that males have an unfair advantage when competing in girls’ sports.
“We find these remains buried, dust them off, and put them out everywhere we can, with such limited resources, hoping to be heard. . . We know if we don’t preserve their legacies, our history, no one else will.”
Lesbian leader, Lin Farley, reminds us to “stand up and take our own rights into our own hands.”
“Harper’s Magazine is not only ‘comfortable’ with ‘the decision’ to reinvent Stormé as a ‘he,’ they’re comfortable with any distress it causes the lesbian community that surrounded Stormé while she was alive… The very people she spent her life protecting.”
“Gladys Bentley is among an ever-growing list of historical lesbian figures being revised postmortem… If defying sexist ‘norms’ means we can be recategorized after we die, who among us won’t be up for revision?”
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