Tag: Lesbian Culture

Opinion: Lesbians and Bi Women – Culture Clash?

Opinion: Lesbians and Bi Women – Culture Clash?

Why can’t we just all get along? I have a lot of close bi friends.  I have dated bi women. I hear a lot about how bi women feel pressure to ‘prove’ their queerness and how they get the message that they are not legitimate, Read more

Why does the first lesbian breakup hurt so much?

Why does the first lesbian breakup hurt so much?

One of the things about the first heart-rending, eviscera stomping, soul draining lesbian breakup is that you don’t know at the time that it’s because its the first, and because heterosexism makes things worse at every point.

How to be friends with your exes – for lesbians

How to be friends with your exes – for lesbians

Lesbian culture is built on family – the families formed by women, their exes and their ex’s exes. Here’s how we maintain that network.

What were lesbian bars like when we really needed them?

An oasis in a desert of systemic oppression.

How to tell if a woman is interested in you, for lesbians…

How to tell if a woman is interested in you, for lesbians…

models and internalized homophobia can make it difficult for women to let you know that they are interested in you. Here’s how to make it easier to tell.

Coming Out and Overcoming Faith Barriers

Coming Out and Overcoming Faith Barriers

by Renée Wood – Guest contributor to LQ I spent the years of my youth in church and eventually came out as a lesbian. My church didn’t accept me, but I learned to accept myself. Now I am engaged to my wonderful fiancee and I Read more

The 16 women you will see on lesbian dating sites when you’re over 40

The 16 women you will see on lesbian dating sites when you’re over 40

Have you noticed that there are a lot of similarities between lesbian dating profiles for women over 40? I have a brain that finds patterns and here are the one’s I’ve found so far. Please note, these are composites and any similarities to specific humans Read more

Film review: Lesbian Christmas kind of Rom Com – The Happiest Season

I watched the Happiest Season recently. This movie, starring Kristin Stuart (Bella from Twilight) and Alison Brie (Trudy from Mad Men) as those most lesbian of star crossed lovers (and most frequent young dyke hearbreak) – a closet case paired with an out-since-birth-with-supportive parents gal. Read more

Pandemic Pride Photo and Video Project with Belle Ancell

Belle Ancell is a queer identified professional portrait photographer in Vancouver Canada. She is celebrated for  her ten year ‘Unveiled’ photo project, honouring the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, which will be published in book form in 2020. For our 2020 Pride in a global pandemic Read more

Bushy Park – lesbian country band in Vancouver BC

Bushy Park – lesbian country band in Vancouver BC

Bushy Park sings country songs about dykes Country music is a style of music based on stories about regular people’s lives. Lesbians are regular people, but there are very few country songs about us.  The women of Bushy Park take country songs old and new Read more