Meet Natalie Clifford Barney, the lesbian trailblazer who was out and proud in the 1900s
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I got pretty behind this season of the podcast cause of a lot of shitty things like my dad dying and mental health struggles. That's why for our #NotableQueerLeo I am resharing this episode in honor of #LeoSeason
Find it where you get your podcasts!
Season 2, Episode 8: Notable Queer Leo - Radclyffe Hall
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Womontown’s Lesson for LGBTQ+ Travelers: Safety Can Mean Belonging
https://gallivanting-rainbows.com/read/2026-07-20/womontown-s-lesson-for-lgbtq-travelers-safety-can-mean-belonging #LGBTQTravelSafety #QueerCommunities #SustainableTourism #LesbianHistory #InclusiveTravel
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While Dark Habits' notable-queer-people-with-star-signs is rather behind, this episode comes just in time for #SpookySeason!
Megan is once again joined by Thomas from their other podcast about queer history, These Old Queers, to talk about #Leo lesbian literary pioneer, #paranormalinvestigator and (disappointingly) fascist sympathizer - #RadclyffeHall.
Listen where you get your podcasts!
#LeoSunSign #LeoSeason #lesbian #lesbianhistory #lgbtqiahistory #queerhistory #queerleo
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#TimeTravelAuthors 06/28 Balance
#TimeTravelingGhost Part 14Fallen Angel
Josephine’s act ended, and Ghost sat there, stunned. More than the godlike dancing, it was the joy on Mademoiselle Baker’s face—mischievous, radiant, pure puckish abandon—that stayed with Ghost.
“Would you like to meet the goddess in person?” Countess’s voice broke the spell.
A juggler had taken the stage, balancing a plate on their nose while juggling three balls. The shift was as jarring as vaudeville following Shakespeare at the Globe. Ghost nodded, still too dazzled to trust her voice.
Countess drained her Champagne and snubbed her cigarette in the empty glass, where it briefly sizzled. “Shall we go?” she said softly. The veil had fallen again; red gems sparkled where once were crimson lips and pale skin.
She threaded unsteadily through the tables where tipsy revelers sat, pieces of costume strewn around them. Tinsel clung to her like cosmic threads, a fallen star personified, cast down but radiant still. Voices called out her name: La Comtesse de Pougy, La Duchesse de Gramont, even Madame la Comtesse. She nodded to each with gracious indifference, letting every title stand.
“Who was this woman?” Ghost wondered. The veil was only the beginning—a symbol of an identity woven from shadow. Not even her familiars agreed on her name. The dark hints she dropped made her think perhaps she was someone even older and more sinister than any of them realized. Or perhaps they ignored her subtle hints.
“Madame la Comtesse,” the stage doorman greeted us. “Here to see Mademoiselle Baker? This way, she is expecting you.”
“How are the kids, Louis?” Countess’s voice shifted; no trace of Hungarian remained. It rang with the false warmth of a politician: hearty, too familiar.
“Well, Madame. They were grateful for the gifts.”
“Good. Here is the door we can see ourselves in. Tell the wife I say hi.”
The man hurried back to his station, a smile on his face.
The Countess looked after him, and then in her Hungarian-heavy French asked me, “Do you hate kids too?”
She lit one of her black cigarettes, waiting for an answer that never came, and finally added, “Loathsome creatures. On God’s great balance wheel, less than rats.”
Liane de Pougy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liane_de_Pougy
Élisabeth de Gramont: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89lisabeth_de_Gramont#MicroFiction #NMPrompts #NMTTA #JosephineBaker #CountessElizabethBáthory #Roaring20s #Lesbian #Sapphic
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In the second part of our 3 part episode on groundbreaking pioneer #sexologist #MagnusHirschfeld, we talk about his influence on German #genderidentity and #sexualpolitics up through World War One and his instrumental influence on #WeimarEra culture! Cabaret Clothes! Divine Decadence! #GenderEuphoria! Hurrah!
listen where you get your podcasts!
#WeimarBerlin #BerlinCabaret #1920sCabaret #1920s #lesbians #lesbianhistory #gays #gayhistory #bi #trans #transhistory #nonbinary #Berlin
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Back with more stories of #queerancestors in this episode, Ryen and Megan talk about #Ariessunsign #lesbian, #feminist, science fiction author, teacher and political activist #SallyMillerGearhart!
listen via the link or wherever you get your podcasts!
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0BTsdbbijYUdXhTUGB0tno?si=w-7PyaRnQdSUQjX0RoN97Q
#lesbians #lesbianhistory #queerancestor #queerwitch #queerwitches #queerwitchcraft #queerastrology #queericon #queericons #DarkHabitsPodcast #NotableQueerAries #aries
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Three months in the making! The #LesbianHistoricMotifProject Podcast episode on "Lesbians and the Law" is up (only one day late). We ask the question "was it ever illegal to be a lesbian in the pre-20th century West?" It's complicated. Probably not as illegal as you think.
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Another #LesbianHistoricMotifProject blog following Stephen Turton's work with the history of queer vocabulary in English.
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The #LesbianHIstoricMotifProject is still working through Turton's Before the Word Was Queer. Today's chapter is on medical dictionaries and their obsession with the (supposed) physiological effects of f/f sex.
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The Lesbian Historic Motif Project continues to blog about Stephen Turton's Before the Word Was Queer -- a history of how queer vocabulary has been handled in English dictionaries.
https://alpennia.com/blog/words-long-ago-and-far-away
#LGBTQHistory #LesbianHistory #SapphicHistory #LesbianHistoricMotifProject
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It's the December "On the Shelf" episode of the Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast! This is your best genre-focused venue for sapphic/lesbian historical fiction: reader, author, or publisher, we're here for you! All episodes have transcripts for those who prefer.
https://alpennia.com/blog/lesbian-historic-motif-podcast-episode-302-shelf-december-2024#LesbianHistoricMotifProject #LesbianHistory #LesbianFiction #SapphicHistory #SapphicFiction
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The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast's 2024 fiction series wraps up with "A Very Long Malaise" by L.J. Lee, set in 18th c Korea. This is my favorite kind of story: beautifully written, deeply embedded in the historic setting, realistic but never tragic.
https://alpennia.com/blog/lesbian-historic-motif-podcast-episode-301-very-long-malaise-lj-lee#LesbianHistoricMotifProject #LesbianHistory #LesbianFiction #SapphicHistory #SapphicFiction
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As an accompaniment to tomorrow's Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast fiction episode by @ljwrites, I'm proud and delighted to present an article she wrote on two 15th century Korean women whose romantic and sexual relationship was recorded in the context of a court scandal.
https://alpennia.com/blog/guest-blog-lj-lee-sossang-and-danji-15th-century-korean-maidservants-love#LesbianHistoricMotifProject #LesbianHistory #SapphicHistory
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This article on prosecutions for female sodomy in the Netherlands finishes up the material I flagged to read as background for the #LesbianHistoricMotifProject Podcast's "Lesbians and Law" episode. Now I need to get started on that podcast script!
https://alpennia.com/blog/anomalous-spate-prosecutions-female-sodomy
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Currently the #LesbianHistoricMotifProject is focusing on books and articles about the legal context of lesbianism (in preparation for a podcast on the topic). Here's another publication by legal scholar Caroline Derry this time analyzing the famous Pirie & Woods case.
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Given the scarcity of formal records focused on women in the middle ages, the occasional reference to lesbian relations is valuable. At the same time, it can be incredibly hard to put in context. Is this case typical? Or unique?
https://alpennia.com/blog/rare-and-ambiguous-15th-c-french-legal-case
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The #LesbianHistoricMotifProject: Caroline Derry's book on Lesbianism and the Criminal Law moves on into the 20th century with a bill against "gross indecency between females" that was considered too scandalous to pass.
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The #LesbianHistoricMotifProject looks at chapter 3 of Derry's book on lesbianism and the law in England, in which a case involving a non-consensual medical exam is used to establish an age of consent for f/f sex.
https://alpennia.com/blog/peculiar-way-acknowledging-ff-sexual-possibility
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The #LesbianHistoricMotifProject looks at chapter 2 of Derry's work on lesbianism and the law in England. Why were "female husbands" the primary focus of courts when addressing lesbianism?
https://alpennia.com/blog/legal-context-female-husbands-england
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The November "On the Shelf" episode of the #LesbianHistoricMotifProject Podcast brings you listings of new lesbian and sapphic historicals, plus a survey of books set in the '20s ... the 1920s, that is!
https://alpennia.com/blog/lesbian-historic-motif-podcast-episode-299-shelf-november-2024
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I'm doing some reading in preparation for a Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast episode on "lesbians and the law" and how could I resist Caroline Derry's meticulous study of legal attitudes toward lesbianism (and associated social phenomena) in England?
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Frieda Belinfante (1904-1995) was an openly homosexual Dutch cellist & conductor of Jewish descent. During the War, Belinfante joined the same resistance movement as Willem Arondeus and other Dutch homosexuals & artists specializing in forging false identity papers & helping those wanted by the Gestapo into hiding. Belinfonte aided in organizing the 1943 bombiing of the Population Registry in Amsterdam. After the perpetrators were turned in by an unknown informant Belinfante fled Holland, dressed as a man, through Belgium & France to Switzerland. Once the war ended she was able to continue her musical career.
#friedabelinfante #musician #resistance #resistancefighter #rememberlegends #butiwasagirl #freedomfighter #cellist #conductor #dutchresistance #dutchmusician #jewishdescent #gayhistory #jewishhistory #wwii #worldwarii #history #lesbian #lesbianhistory #holocaust #holocaustsurvivor
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The #LesbianHistoricMotifProject Podcast looks at "Our F/Favorite Tropes" with the second part of our "theater and actresses" episode, on the historic connection between actresses and transgressive sexuality.
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Book Review #44 is Lilian Faderman's Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth Century America. This is a very detailed look at female relationships over the course of nearly 100 years. And again, I found Faderman's work helpful in understanding their story, too. ☕☕☕☕
@bookstodon @books #americanhistory #lesbianhistory #books #bookstodon #lgbtq
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started a #wikipedia article on social worker, therapist, activist, Bernice Goodman (1927-2003): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernice_Goodman @wikiwomeninred @wikilovespride #LGBTQ #AudreLorde #AdrienneRich #socialwork #LesbianHistory
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New #LesbianHistoricMotifProject Podcast episode: "All the Historic Lesbianisms" -- returning to my theme of "models of lesbianism as constantly shifting bundles of variable features."
https://alpennia.com/blog/lesbian-historic-motif-podcast-episode-287-all-historic-lesbianisms
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New Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast episode: Poetry about Love between Women in the 19th Century. Concluding our poetry series, with poems about love, sex, longing, loss, and admiration for fellow poets.
#LesbianHistoricMotifProject #LesbianHistory #SapphicHistory #Poetry
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Current Amazon fantasy stories assume a strong association with sapphic relationships, but was that the case for classical and medieval depictions of Amazons? The #LesbianHistoricMotifProject Podcast examines the question.
https://alpennia.com/blog/lesbian-historic-motif-podcast-episode-282-amazons
#LesbianHistory #SapphicHistory #LesbianFiction #SapphicFiction #Amazons
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The #LesbianHistoricMotifProject Podcast's "Our F/Favorite Tropes" series mostly looks at differences in how tropes play out for f/f vs m/f couples. But this time we look at a trope unique to f/f historic romance: the Bluestocking & the Amazon.
#LesbianHistory #SapphicHistory #LesbianFiction #SapphicFiction
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This week, the #LesbianHistoricMotifProject Podcast tackles the history of lesbians and ... ah ... ahem ... um ... sex toys.
https://alpennia.com/blog/lesbian-historic-motif-podcast-episode-278-dildo-episode
