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Lesbian Histories and Futures: A Dispatch From “Gay American History @ 40”

By Rachel Hope Cleves May 18, 2016 Dispatches 5 comments

Rachel Hope Cleves The fortieth-anniversary celebration of Jonathan Ned Katz’s classic document collection Gay American History convened Wednesday evening, May 4, at John Jay College in New York City, with a panel on lesbian history. Cheryl Clarke presided over comments by Caroll Smith-Rosenberg and Claire Potter to an audience that […]

Finding the lesbian premodern: Does it take one to know one?

By Kim Racon May 27, 2014 LGBTQ, Medieval 1 comment

Kim Racon How many medieval lesbians do you know? Or, are you wondering if there even were any lesbians in the Middle Ages? To paraphrase a line from Diane Watt’s recent Bright Club appearance, some women in the Middle Ages knew they were lesbians—they just didn’t know they were medieval! […]