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Home » lesbianism

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Posted inArts & Culture

I Know My Own Heart looks back on the life of 19th century queer icon Anne Lister

by Dan Jakes January 17, 2019August 18, 2021

The diarist, mountaineer, and female gentleman was ahead of her time, and maybe ours.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

How to take a fly on that workplace romance

by Dan Savage January 25, 2018August 18, 2021

Dan advises an out lesbian interested in a coworker, a sixtysomething would-be lesbian, and more.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

Advice for the asexual

by Dan Savage February 16, 2017August 18, 2021

Is the only option to “take one for the team”? Plus: an autistic lesbian under the thumb of disapproving parents

"Some folks are gender neutral, some are bigender, some are agender. Then there’s pangender, genderless, genderfluid, genderqueer, gender nonconforming, gender questioning, and gender variant, as well as genderfuck, trigender, and intergender."
Posted inColumns & Opinion

Brave new (genderfluid) world

by Dan Savage December 11, 2014August 18, 2021

Dan Savage offers a few tips for coping with the host of new gender identities, and advises a parent whose daughter has come out as asexual.

Whitney Morse, Nora Lisa Ulrey, Nelson A. Rodriguez, and Britni Tozzi in The Children's Hour
Posted inArts & Culture

The Children’s Hour: Lies, secrets, and silence, revived for the Facebook age

by Albert Williams January 15, 2014August 18, 2021

Pride Films and Plays bring back The Children’s Hour, Lillian Hellman’s 1934 drama.

"Here's the thing: I like to smoke pot."
Posted inColumns & Opinion

A relationship gone to pot?

by Dan Savage June 13, 2013August 19, 2021

Dan on relationship reefer, an indiscreet military wife, and a dom’s anxious girlfriend.

Posted inBlogs

The Prisoner of Sex

by Cliff Doerksen February 25, 2010August 19, 2021

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