If you’re in the queer community, have spent any time around lesbians, or are on the gay side of the internet, you’ve likely heard the joke: “What do lesbians bring to their second date? A U-Haul.” I ...

As the website for The National Women’s History Museum notes, Betty Friedan cofounded the National Organization for Women and was “one of the early leaders of the women’s rights movement of the 1960s ...

A lesbian usually refers to a woman who is physically and romantically attracted to other women. But you can also identify as a lesbian if you're nonbinary – someone whose gender identity falls ...

In 1971, in Washington, D.C., twelve women founded a radical lesbian group called the Furies Collective. The feminist movement at the time still tended to treat lesbians as an albatross, an unsavory ...

It’s rarely a good idea to reread diaries from your teenage years. Recently though, I found a passage from my own that made me laugh. At 15, on the verge of coming out as a lesbian for the first time, ...