dispatch from lesbian visibility week

and something about ye olde lesbians and jeopardy

Welcome to this week’s dispatch from the lesbian internet, a mid-week news roundup from Paging Dr. Lesbian. This post is only for paid subscribers, so if you’d like to read the whole thing, subscribe now. I thought I’d include a free preview this week in honor of lesbian visibility. This post is too long for an e-mail, so consider reading on-site.

Hello, and welcome. This week marks the start of lesbian visibility week, so I’ve decided to share some of my favorite pictures of lesbians being visible for all to enjoy.

Rita Mae Brown, author of Rubyfruit Jungle, wearing a “Lavender Menace” shirt.

Freedom Day Parade, San Francisco, California, June 1979.

Maud’s Study, San Francisco, 1940s. Credit.

The famous Le Monocle nightclub in Paris, 1930s. © Paul Thompson / FPG / Getty Images

© 1986 JEB (Joan E. Biren), Stormè DeLarverie working as a bouncer at The Cubby Hole Bar, NYC, 1986, silver-gelatin print, variable sizes.

Tracy Chapman and Alice Walker

Toni Morrison and Fran Lebowitz

Audre Lorde and Francis Clayton.

Elvira and her GF

Ex-girlfriends Adèle Haenel and Céline Sciamma attend a protest.