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Xtra Weekly

It’s Hot Girl Summer: Lesbian Edition!

It’s Hot Girl Summer: Lesbian Edition!

Here’s your Xtra Weekly, August 16

By Erica Lenti • August 16, 2019 at 11:09 am EDT
Opinion

If lesbianism is sinking, I’m going down with the ship

If lesbianism is sinking, I’m going down with the ship

It took me years to use the label ‘lesbian,’ to feel I had earned it. Even if others are discarding it, I refuse to let it go

By Lauren Strapagiel • August 13, 2019 at 2:01 pm EDT
Personal Essay

What I learned going on auditions as a lesbian actor in LA

What I learned going on auditions as a lesbian actor in LA

I stood out, and not in the way that Hollywood embraced

By Joanne Vannicola • July 17, 2019 at 11:03 am EDT
Personal Essay

What makeup taught me about being a lesbian

What makeup taught me about being a lesbian

For years I shunned lipstick and eyeliner for fear that I was either too queer, or not feminine enough

By Erica Lenti • June 27, 2019 at 2:22 pm EDT
Culture

Is Céline Dion a lesbian icon?

Is Céline Dion a lesbian icon?

The Célinaissance is for more than just gay men

By Kelli María Korducki • May 27, 2019 at 4:19 pm EDT
Love Like Mine

I had a teenage lesbian love affair at Jewish summer camp

I had a teenage lesbian love affair at Jewish summer camp

It was intense and condensed — and we fooled no one but ourselves

By Belle Riley Thompson • January 24, 2019 at 2:51 pm EDT
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Video

How Degrassi brought a lesbian theatre performer to Canada

How Degrassi brought a lesbian theatre performer to Canada
By Xtra Video • October 18, 2018 at 4:46 pm EDT

Queer women are stepping up to preserve stories from lesbian history

Queer women are stepping up to preserve stories from lesbian history

Archivists working to collect and digitize oral testimonies from same-sex and same-gender attracted women

Created for BOLDFest • August 27, 2018 at 8:33 am EDT
Power

London lesbians, Brazilian volleyball and Indian law

London lesbians, Brazilian volleyball and Indian law

Your Daily Package of newsy and naughty bits from around the world

By Niko Bell • July 9, 2018 at 1:42 pm EDT
Power

Daniela Vega, Saint Patrick’s Day and lesbian governors

Daniela Vega, Saint Patrick’s Day and lesbian governors

Your Daily Package of newsy and naughty bits from around the world

By Niko Bell • March 10, 2018 at 7:26 am EDT
Power

Canada wants to deport this lesbian, even though she may be jailed or worse if sent home

Canada wants to deport this lesbian, even though she may be jailed or worse if sent home

A year after her last reprieve, Angela is once again facing deportation to a country where being gay is illegal

By Derek Brown • January 25, 2018 at 6:48 pm EDT
Power

Side-eye, censorship and a lesbian Latina sheriff

Side-eye, censorship and a lesbian Latina sheriff

Your Daily Package of newsy and naughty bits from around the world

By Niko Bell • January 5, 2018 at 6:02 pm EDT
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Love & Sex

When motherhood feels out of reach as a young lesbian

When motherhood feels out of reach as a young lesbian

I had been obsessed with procreating since I could stand on two feet. But what happens when that path becomes obscured by who you fall in love with?

By Jessie Randall • October 20, 2017 at 11:58 am EDT

How to step your flirt game up if you’re an older lesbian

How to step your flirt game up if you’re an older lesbian
Created for BOLDFest • August 30, 2017 at 12:03 pm EDT
History

The titillating narrative of sex work and lesbianism in the Roman Empire

The titillating narrative of sex work and lesbianism in the Roman Empire

Lucan’s dialogues about same-sex female love were telling, but its characters still didn’t get happy endings

By Michael Lyons • July 19, 2017 at 2:16 pm EDT
The Daily Package

Bermuda, the third gender and lesbian reggaeton

Bermuda, the third gender and lesbian reggaeton

Your Daily Package of newsy and naughty bits from around the world

By Niko Bell • May 8, 2017 at 1:32 pm EDT
The Daily Package

YouTube, football rumours and a nationalist lesbian

YouTube, football rumours and a nationalist lesbian

Your Daily Package of newsy and naughty bits from around the world

By Niko Bell • April 24, 2017 at 5:22 pm EDT
Opinion

How were lesbians affected by the anti-LGBT Lavender Scare?

How were lesbians affected by the anti-LGBT Lavender Scare?

Like gay men, lesbians faced persecution in the 1950s McCarthy witch hunts

By Jeremy Willard • April 19, 2017 at 8:59 am EDT
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