More Love for Sapphic History | 2026
Sources + Further Learning
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Further Learning
Malflora Collective - a community project dedicated to Latina/e lesbians
'The 1928 song by Ma Rainey that's one of the world's first gay anthems - BBC, 2025
'DYKE: A Fracture In The Lesbian Community' - Gloria Bates, 2018
Gabriela Mistral; The Latina Lesbian Love Story that Inspired a Nobel Prize
The AIDS Crisis, We Were There Collection - {archived from r/vintagelesbians}
A 'Kiss-in' + the Lesbian Avengers - Discrimination at Clark's Corner
'The Science Behind the Late-Blooming Lesbians' - Alexander Shimo, 2023
Sources Referenced in the Process of Creating the Panel
'The Meaning of Sapphic: Unraveling the Power of Identity' - Eversoll, 2023
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology - Sappho
'Lesbos, lesbios, lesbian: a history of the word' - Diva Magazine, 2025
'The surprising origins of the word "lesbian"' - TED-Ed, 2021
“As instituições de encarceramento são racistas” (Gina Dent + Angela Davis - photo)
Donna Burkett and Manona Evans - Wisconsin LGBTQ History Project
Oral History with Donna Burkett - University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries
Dolores Vázquez - Lesbian Visibility Day Press Meeting - !!TRIGGER WARNING!!
'The Blood Sisters of San Diego' - Women's Museum of California, 2019
'Four people who faced the horror of the AIDS crisis in the 80s' - The Guardian, 2021
'SF at epicenter of helping gay men during AIDS crisis' - The Bay Area Reporter, 2022
(.pdf) 'Between Stonewall and AIDS' - The Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare
'Lesbian Volunteerism in the AIDS Epidemic: A Story We Almost Lost' - Marissa Rhodes, 2026
'Why the 'L' Comes First: The Lesbian Community During the Height of AIDS
(.pdf) Lesbian Denial and Lesbian Leadership in the AIDS Epidemic
'Lesbian Mutual AID During the AIDS Crisis' - Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff Podcast
'GLBT? LGBT? LGBTQIA+? What's in a Name?' - Elizabeth Drescher, 2016
'Sisterhood Is Powerful,' - The New York Times - Susan Brownmiller, 1970
The Story Of The Lavender Menace: The Protest for Lesbian Inclusion
Lesbian Rebellion and The Lavender Menace - Eleanor Medhurst, 2020
The Women of Color Behind the Daughters of Bilitis - Malina Lo, 2021
'Lesbians and Key Rings: a Cultural Love Story' - Christina Cauterucci, 2016
Dyke TV Episode feat. interviews with Lesbians in Harlem & filmmaker Su Friedrich
'How the Lesbian Avengers fought back' - Allyson McCabe, 2022
'Preserving Your Indvidual and Community Herstory by Judith Schwarz, 1986'
'Searching For the Last Lesbian Bars in America' - VICE Life Youtube
'This Campaign is Fighting for America's Last 21 Lesbian Bars' - Leah Kirts, 2021
'How Dave's Lesbian Bar builds Queer community in New York' - Benham Jones, 2022
'Queering Place: The Case of the Lesbian Bar' - Ainsley Novack, 2024
'The Rise and Fall of America's Lesbian Bars' - Sarah Marloff, Smithsonian Magazine, 2021
'JoJo Siwa Says LGBTQ+ Community Bullied Her After Dating Chris Hughes' - Mikelle Street. 2025
The Renegades: The Butches and Studs Who've Defied the Male Gaze
'Court rules lesbians are not just from Lesbos' - Reuters, 2008
'Greek islanders seek to reclaim term 'Lesbian'' - NBC, 2008