Ruth and Naomi, Orpah departing, 1902
by Philip Hermogenes Calderon (1833-1898)
“Do not press me to leave you or to turn back from following you! Where you go, I will go; where you lodge I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God my God. Where you die, I will die — there will […]

Time Magazine has started a poll on the Best TIME Cover ever. Guess who’s winning? Yep. The gay one herself, Ellen Degeneres. By a margin of a hundred miles.
If nothing else, this just proves how intense we lesbians can be when we find something we can identify with, whether it’s a movie, or a TV […]

To be sure, the book Lesbian Nuns: Breaking the Silence is not meant to titillate the senses. It is a collection of real people’s stories, a serious exploration of a subject everybody knew, but was never talked about: there are many lesbians in the convents. I grew up wanting to be a nun, and so […]

Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf? Certainly not me. I’m immensely fascinated by her, as I am with all intelligent women (my Kryptonite, my weakness). I think I first found her during college which, admittedly, was a little late. And after watching The Hours, I was hooked, line and sinker. I tried to read all her […]

Way before the L-Word, LA was already home to an elite group of famous and infamous lesbian actresses. Who’s gay in Hollywood? Well, these included some of the most well-known actresses at the time. Collectively, they fondly referred to themselves as “Sewing Circles”, to serve as a sort of code, and would meet frequently in […]

During the 1800s and the 1900s, “boston marriage” was a term used for households where two women lived together, independent of any male support. It is not a strictly lesbian marriage. Such a relationship may have intimacy and commitment, with or without having a sexual component. In those days, having a “romantic friendship” was perfectly […]

If Muslims have Mecca, we lesbians have Lesbos. This lush Mediterranean island has been a popular tourist destination for women with a sapphic bent since the 1950’s. And why not? The word lesbian, after all, was derived from this place where the poet Sappho lived. Her works contain lines that undeniably speak of love for […]