Two days in a row getting a blog up on the #LesbianHistoricMotifProject —the chapter on Sappho in The Cambridge History of Gay and Lesbian Literature.

https://alpennia.com/blog/sappho-good-hands-here

#LesbianHistory

The #LesbianHistoricMotifProject podcast tells you what's "On the Shelf for September 2023” with announcements of new historical fiction releases and interviews with https://mastodon.org.uk/@rhiannongrant and Katharine Quarmby.

https://lesbianhistoricmotif.podbean.com/e/on-the-shelf-for-september-2023-the-lesbian-historic-motif-podcast-episode-267/

#LesbianFiction #LesbianHistory #SapphicFiction #SapphicHistory

I did two lovely interviews this morning for next week's #LesbianHistoricMotifProject podcast! We'll be talking about fiction inspired by historic archives and how to imagine queer lives in the Neolithic.

If you're an author or historian working around the topic of women loving women in history, and you'd be interested in talking about your work on my podcast, drop me a note to ask!

#LesbianHistory #SapphicHistory #LesbianFiction #SapphicFiction

Inspired, in part, by our recent fiction episode, this month the #LesbianHistoricMotifProject podcast brings you another “Our F/Favorite Tropes" show, featuring female spies in history!

We love our adventurous, angsty spy-vs-spy historic romances, right? But if you think the main hurdle for a sapphic historical spy romance is the believability of women as spies, you should think again.

https://alpennia.com/blog/lesbian-historic-motif-podcast-episode-266-our-ffavorite-tropes-part-9-spies

#LesbianHistory #SapphicHistory #HistoricalRomance #LesbianFiction #SapphicFiction

The #LesbianHistoricMotifProject podcast has interviews out the wazoo in this month's On the Shelf episode. Hear from Annemarie K.D. (author of last week's story), Meredith Rose (whose Shelockian "A Study in Garnet" is my current read), and Lee Swanson (author of a fascinating series featuring medieval Hanseatic merchants).

Plus the usual round-up of new books!

https://alpennia.com/blog/lesbian-historic-motif-podcast-episode-265-shelf-august-2023

#LesbianHistory #SapphicHistory #LesbianFiction #SapphicFiction

New fiction on the #LesbianHistoricMotifProject podcast! Annemarie KD's story "To the Fair Muse who, Loving Me, Imagin'd More" imagines a romantic interlude for 17th c poet, playwright, and spy Aphra Behn.

https://alpennia.com/blog/lesbian-historic-motif-podcast-episode-264-fair-muse-who-loving-me-imagind-more-annemarie-kd

#LesbianFiction #LesbianHistory #SapphicFiction #SapphicHistory

A casual question on social media inspired this month's #LesbianHistoricMotifProject podcast "Lesbians as a 'Third Sex'". What is the history of this concept? And did it exist outside of academic discourse?

https://alpennia.com/blog/lesbian-historic-motif-podcast-episode-263-lesbians-third-sex

#LesbianHistory

Mariana Lawton's second visit to the Ladies of Llangollen took place on June 15th, 1817. The visit lasted until June 23rd.

My mapping of #AnneLister, her travels and the company she kept continues 🤓

#lgbtqia #QueerHistory #LesbianHistory

The #LesbianHistoricMotifProject June "On the Shelf" episode is up, with your usual round-up of new fiction, history books I"ve been shopping for, and notes on what I've been reading lately.

https://alpennia.com/blog/lesbian-historic-motif-podcast-episode-260-shelf-june-2023

#LesbianHistoricalFiction #SapphicHistoricalFiction #LesbianHistoricalRomance #SapphicHistoricalRomance #LesbianHistory

This month's #LesbianHistoricMotifProject podcast is "They Did the Smash (the Schoolgirl Smash)" all about openly celebrated same-sex relationships at girls schools and women's colleges (and between female faculty at such institutions), with a discussion of how and when that culture changed.

https://www.alpennia.com/blog/lesbian-historic-motif-podcast-episode-254-they-did-smash-schoolgirl-smash#

#LesbianHistory #SapphicBooks

The medieval French "Romance of SIlence" includes some surprising takes on questions of gender and identity, including an ongoing quarrel between Nature and Nurture over the central character's gender. Despite the eventual heteronormative conclusion, "SIlence" gives us a glimpse of imagined possibilities.

Today's #LesbianHistoricMotifProject podcast explores this story and its complications.
https://lesbianhistoricmotif.podbean.com/e/the-romance-of-silence-the-lesbian-historic-motif-podcast-episode-249/
#LesbianHIstory #SapphicHistory #TransHistory

For fucks sake

“In 1923 in New York, a Yiddish play that featured the first lesbian scene on a Broadway stage was censored for being indecent. In 2023 in Florida, a play about the first play has been canceled for the same reason.”

https://forward.com/fast-forward/530999/florida-school-board-cancels-paula-vogels-indecent-a-queer-jewish-love-story-about-a-censored-yiddish-play/

#florida #fascism #antisemitism #culturewar #censorship #yiddish #lesbianhistory #queerhistory #queerpresent #rightwing

New Lesbian Historic Motif Project blog: exploring the purposes of sapphic themes and characters in later 18th century English novels. https://alpennia.com/blog/sapphic-character-18th-c-novels #LesbianHistoricMotifProject #LesbianHistory

@marinegilis où le mot lesbienne s'écrit, se chante, se dit... Sous les ors des musées ou aux #archivesnatfr, c'est important et ça fait un petit qqch...
#ParisiennesCitoyennes #lesbianhistory #Paris #Paris19

TODAY IN QUEER TV HISTORY

HOMOSEXUALS - 12/18/1979, ABC

A 1-hour prime-time ABC News documentary built around first-person narratives by a diverse range of gay women and men in different parts of the U.S.

Here, Gwendolyn Rogers tells how she felt the first time she entered a lesbian bar in 1969.

https://youtu.be/8mM47f64PlE

#LGBTQ #lesbian #gay #LesbianHistory #LGBTQHistory #queer #QueerHistory #MediaStudies

New #LesbianHistoricMotifProject podcast with the roundup of recent books, an interview with Marianne Ratcliffe and a bit of cheerleading around the vulnerability of our communities in the face of monopoly.

https://alpennia.com/blog/lesbian-historic-motif-podcast-episode-245-shelf-december-2022

The Project features lesbian-relevant historical research and boosts sapphic historical fiction with new release listings, author interviews, writing process discussions, and new audio fiction. #LesbianHistory #LesbianHistoricalFiction #SapphicHistoricalFiction

For the 20th-anniversary edition of ALTERNATE CHANNELS: QUEER IMAGES ON 20TH-CENTURY TV, I went through the 500-page original, fact-checked everything again, added 100 photos, and restored material the publisher had cut from the 1st edition.

The result is a much improved book. 😀

#queerhistory #gayhistory #lesbianhistory #mediastudies #LGBTQ #gay #lesbian #tvseries #activism #queer #tv

https://post.news/article/2IBjqyVDbLyOKY3JhENdmBnmHTl
#LesbianCulture #Lesbian #LesbianHistory

Achtenberg, famously called a "damn lesbian" for kissing Morgan at a Pride parade, eventually won her vote and the couple would live in DC until Achtenberg would eventually run for mayor of San Francisco (cont...) #gay #history #lesbian #lesbianhistory #queerhistory #lgbtq

In September of 1981, Morgan was appointed by Governor Jerry Brown.

She would spend several years on the court until her then-partner Roberta Achtenberg was nominated to be an assistant secretary at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (cont...) #gay #lesbian #queer #queerhistory #gayhistory #gayhistory #lesbianhistory