#ny lesbians

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Gladys Bentley at the Ubangi Club in Harlem, early 1930s.

Gladys Bentley (1907-1960) joined the Harlem Renaissance jazz scene at age 16 and became an instant sensation and gender identity pioneer. She performed piano and vocals at the most popular gay bars, wearing men’s clothing, and openly flirted with women in the audience. She headlined in the early 1930s at Harlem's Ubangi Club, where she was backed up by a chorus line of drag queens. She dressed in men's clothes (including her signature: tuxedo and top hat), played piano, and sang her own raunchy lyrics to popular tunes of the day in a deep, growling voice.

Photo: Sterling Paige via Artblart

#New York #NYC #vintage New York #1930s #Sterling Paige #Gladys Bentley #lesbians #LGBTQ+ #queer #Ubangi Club #Harlem #vintage Harlem #old NY

[skrunksthatwunk]

sorry just watched all of lacey's games (thru rabbit hole at time of writing) and i wanna talk about laceys diner can we talk about lacey's diner? we're talking about it now

tl;dr lacey's games is about the presentation and consumption of girls.

cw suicide, csa, incest, cannibalism. if you've seen the series, you know. i only speak of them vaguely here though

in lacey's diner her livelihood depends on how well people like her food, how it looks, how it tastes, how quickly she gets it to them on time. if any of these things falter, they reject her and reinforce her desperation (trauma around failure and acceptance + threat of extreme poverty via the restaurant closing).

eating her food is accepting her, choosing to be with her in some way. lacey gets eaten in the prior episode so her stalker can be with her forever, out of an obsession with her (/her body) that leads him to destroy her to better possess and consume her (like her uncle). she can't be late serving them herself, because that's not good presentation—her inability to get food out on time is a reflection of her flaws, and a cause to reject her. she must be available for others, punctual. she can't put the wrong ingredients in—elements of herself, her life—she must exclude them entirely from the part they eat, the part she gives away. she keeps the part that is filled with the disgusting, ugly, painful things in her life, about her.

and when she gets fed up and feeds those raw, authentic parts of herself to them (out of spite, tired of trying her best to no avail, to give them a taste of their own medicine), she is punished, not allowed to serve anyone again bc it's too gross and dangerous. she is punished for lashing out, for not keeping it all bottled up, and in her helplessness, resigns herself to death.

as seen in rabbit hole, jay was too boyish to be consumed happily by the audience (the mothers in the emails), so she was killed off and effectively haunts lacey. if she is not presentable enough, she too will be destroyed and discarded. if she is too presentable, she will be consumed too completely. she has no control, no say (as we know from lacey's wardrobe), no agency outside of pretending she's in a sparkly dreamy world. and jay—who said she would rather die than wear makeup—is forced by lacey to wear makeup in death. she's fixing her by making her conform to the same gender standards she's strangled by, saying that if she was less boyish she wouldn't have died. again, femininity and conformity (and thus being pleasant to others, presenting oneself to be admired and consumed) is safe to lacey, something she must perform to survive. yet, of course, lacey is hurt immensely for her being a girl, for her being a woman, and for her trauma resulting from those events.

all her talk of being ugly when she's grieving, of almost crying in front of him (her uncle iirc), of needing to be pretty even for the people who abuse and hurt her... and how she wished the world was ugly and grotesque when jay died because that was how it felt, but it was just sunny and oblivious. she was the one standing out for being upset, and the world was pretending and consumable and she couldn't anymore. she had to scrape herself together though because what else is there? when her job and stability and life is at stake, how can she afford to be traumatized? to not pretend, even when she's alone? augh. ough. look i just like lacey. i want her to be ok

i don't know that lacey herself is supposed to have a linear, consistent story. i kind of think she's an avatar for like,, girlhood suffering and trauma, and the traumatized people who come from that (hence her dying in multiple ways and coming back). perhaps as rocio's way of warning or comforting girls who went through similar things to her, or to vent her own issues because the thought of making something that's such a farce, such a forced, gussied up version of what it's like to be a girl, bothers her. the audience comes to the website to consume lacey at her best, at her most presentable, and are instead met with the harsh reality of cockroaches and used condoms. and yet, the audience of lacey games the video series consumes her too, only they are seeking out her trauma, trying to invade her mind and pick it apart. we're all consuming what we want, whatever we find appetizing, of lacey. and for rocio, you get the sense that she is also a tool, a way for rocio to express her inner distress. in that, lacey is put through all this unfortunate shit by rocio to make her more presentable and consumable to her. we are all using lacey, we all see her and eat her and destroy her. and she comes back to us and her cage because the pain's comforting in its familiarity.

in short, aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. 👍

#this is not conclusive and it's not edited so it's just me like. shitting out my thoughts full speed #but i hope you guys get it bc like. my mind is scrambled over this rn #lacey games #laceys games #anyway as someone whose mental whatevers lead me to not be able to do stuff i need to do like. constantly #laceys diner hits different. in a small way #and the whole series also hits in like. a gender way (<- im a girl but also im not a girl. + lesbian so. 👍) #like lacey feels transgendah to me in a way. might just be ny particular brain poison though

[genyasglockk]

the armorer requesting to meet with bo-katan alone and then telling her to remove her helmet for her was such an intimate thing. they're so intense and they just met.

#the mandalorian spoilers #the mandalorian #bo katan kryze #the armorer #space lesbians #star wars #every scene is so sexually charged oh ny goddd #bo katan x the armorer

[elopez55]

Games are for the gays

Get yours here

#lgbt #queer fashion #queerart #queer #lesbian #lesbian jesus #USWNT #nwsl #christen press #Tobin heath #preath #wnba #ny liberty #ny Gotham #sabrina ionescu #womenssoccer #womens soccer #womens basketball #Womens sports

[decolonize-the-left]

Cishet according to who? Lesbian label defined by who?

C'mon. You're almost there.

And that's why we don't give a shit what the people who police the queer community with European ideas of gender have to say. Go 5 minutes without trying to use that shit to tell someone else they're being queer the wrong way and maybe radfem-lites will be worth my time.

Until then I will continue to categorize this as anti-indigenous racism seeking to silence indigenous genders and remove us from spaces that Europeans decided we shouldn't belong in. Thanks.

Violottie's bio literally says "sapphic leaning non-binary" and "non-binary men" like this isn't even a huge leap I'm making. It's painfully obvious they buy so deep into the European binary that they're willing to completely misgender non-binary ppl and put us on a man-woman binary that we specifically don't identify with. Especially when it reduces us down to our sex which is EXACTLY what radfems do to erase trans oppression.

And the only people I've ever known to speak over a group trying to force their own definitions onto other people are white supremacists which goes back to how fucking weird it is that you think I would in ANY way agree with either the "cishet bootlickers" OR anyone trying to uphold the same european gender binary they do.

I wasn't even gonna say anything cuz I know they post a lot about Palestine or whatever and this isn't a call out post either. Keep following her if you want, I don't care. I don't want drama to stem from it either.

But this shit? Saying I'm a hypocrite? Out of line and fucking incorrect.

#🙄🙄🙄🙄 #im so over yall #PLEASE #i wish cishet bootlickers were okay with bi lesbians and mspec lesbians are you fucking serious??? BSFFRRN #cishet bootlickers cant even handle butches #i fr cant wrap my mind around how tf you think ny opinion backs up any cishet ideas if gender like?? go talk to your mom or something

[grendelsmilf]

you’ve heard of chilchuck dewey… however, i propose: chilchuck

malcolm.

my reasoning is as follows:

both have very prominent dark eyebrows as contrasted against their lighter hair colors, which accentuates the fact that they are, in fact, perpetually frowning.

both assume themselves to be the smartest person in the room to the point that they underestimate literally everyone in their lives.

both are really bad at putting their best foot forward and make themselves seem lamer and more pathetic than they actually are due to simply being really bad communicators who end up sounding like assholes even when they have good intentions.

both got their first grey hair in their teens due to their tendency to find literally every situation stressful or reproachable or both.

and most importantly, both are miserable little haters.

#o.tv #o.art #dungeon meshi #malcolm in the middle #drew this while my cat was sitting on ny stomach and purring #the things i do for you….. to execute my vision…. #dewey is literally too cool to be chilchuck sorry #if anything dewey is chilchucks lesbian daughter #and reese is like if senshi was evil

[98percentofthewnbaisgay]

Geno and Ruby 🥺

🎥nyliberty on Instagram

#womens basketball #wnba #breanna stewart #wnba blog #new york liberty #ny liberty #marta xargay #lgbtq couple #lesbian couple #geno auriemma #uconn basketball #uconn #uconn wbb #uconn huskies #uconn women’s basketball

[carnis-insanis]

Sigh...

I should make a blog for him ....

#my blog my rules #i can post butch trouples.. #ny art #persona #dst #dst woodie #dst lucy #woodie is a LESBIAN! #self shipping #self ship #f/o #f/o community #romantic f/o #fictional other #<3

[hellpride]

My L.ucifer and B.litzo muse got punted into the fucking GROUND i need to get this A.dam brain rot out

if u wanna keep plotting charting abt our muses from here or my other blog the best place is my discord 👉👈

BEAMBOYD is the discord

#i am so ashamed in lesbian i cant believe im obsessed w/ A.dam #literally if u need me add ny discord bc im STUCK ON HIS BLOG RN #literally i am bouncing off the walls over here

[paris-geller-was-straightwashed]

I am about to say something that will probably put a giant fucking target above my head, but against all good reason - I fucking hate this whole 'gaylor' trend.

let's get the facts out right now: 1. I am a non-binary dyke, in case anyone wants to play the queerphobia card 2. I've been a fan of taylor since fearless first came out when I was 11 (before some of you had probably even reached double digits) and 3. yes, this is inspired by the recent ny times article.

honestly I'm usually too much of an old man to be interested in a lot of celebrity news, even for artists I like, so I generally stay clear, but this came through my morning news feed via, bizarrely, ctv (fucking ctv thought this was NEWSWORTHY enough to put on their site which is bonkers, and if you're not canadian, ctv is a nationwide news broadcaster). and it made me livid - because this has now far beyond stretched the line of acceptable.

fucking ny times. this would be perfectly expected for rags like daily soap dish or enquirer or some other bullshit circus, where they spend all their damn days crafting celebrity stories of who's secretly pregnant and who's getting an underground divorce. ny times, in case they fucking forgot, do still have some sort of legitimacy to their name, but I guess they decided they'd run out of enough stories to now outsource to conspiracy theory level fans who's parasocial relationships with their favourite celebrity reaches deity levels. dear ny times, there is actual news still happening in the world in case you're out of ideas.

putting aside this bizarre so called attempt at 'journalism', onto the second point - which is that this. is. gross!! I've had issues with the whole 'gaylor' thing since the start. we, as a fanbase, have seen taylor ripped apart and broken down by this intrusive and harmful celeb culture that analyzes her every move for who she might be seeing, who's she interested in, which male friend could be a potential partner, etc etc, over and over, and how it's been both damaging to her and her love life as she's said. fans have even criticized the media for it and said to leave taylor alone! but now, all of a sudden, just bc you're a fan or bc you're queer or both, it's okay??? it fucking boggles my mind when so-called 'gaylor' fans gush about her and her work, always at her defense and say they care about her, and then do this 180 where they partake in a super invasive thing at her expense and don't even blink an eye??? making your own guesses by yourself is one thing, but creating a whole plot around the fact of taylor secretly being gay and pushing her to come out is a whole other ballroom of nuts.

let's get this out onto the table - she hates this. she doesn't like that you guys do this. she's already stated so and you all keep doing it. just because you're replacing the male character with a female one doesn't mean shit when you're doing the same harmful activity, just switching pronouns. you're not subverting anything, in case any of you need to be told. as a queer fan, this is embarrassing. it is such a gross over-stepping of someone's private life, and now that the goddamn ny times have posted it about it, makes the behavior even more legitimized!! while nothing excuses homophobia, if taylor eventually starts distancing herself from anything and all things queer and starts pushing back, I don't want to see any fucking one of you crying bc it'd be your own damn fault.

thirdly, even if, even if, taylor was gay - it's none of our fucking business!!! it's like all you up and completely blanked out what it was like to be closeted. if you're staying closeted, it's because you're not ready to come out!!! you don't want to or it's not a good time for you or whatever there doesn't need to be any reason for why someone doesn't want to say they're gay!!! it's hard enough trying to make that choice, and then you have the rest of the whole world posting ''''articles'''' about your sexuality, putting a million pairs of eyes on you - fuck, that'd send me back ten more layers into the closet if it happened to me! it's super rude not only to discuss someone's sexuality like it's the weather over brunch, but even worse to demand they say something about it! this is queer etiquette 101 people - you don't run around gossiping about someone's sexuality bc whatever that person decides they doesn't need your fucking input!!

basically if I could spray you all with a spray bottle I fucking would right now - nobody needs your input on their sexuality, celebrity or non! all this does is perpetrate harmful celebrity gossip that just hurts the artist you claim to love so much. taylor is a real person with a real life, she's not a storybook character to speculate over! please, I am begging you, stop this! go outside! touch grass!!

and at the risking of being meme-ified, leave taylor alone!

#taylor swift #ny times #I have had it up to HERE if you can't tell #I swear to god gaylors are the most off-the-walls people I've ever met #literally I saw someone post a pic of taylor at her birthday with a female friend holding the cake up for her #and with 100% earnestness saying 'the way she's holding this for her is so relationship-coded???' BRO IT'S A BIRTHDAY PARTY #friend: *holds up cake for taylor for her birthday* #gaylors: is this Lesbian?????? #I'm about to loose my mind #now they're crying about taylor's team slamming the article WHICH THEY HAVE THE RIGHT TO #you all wanna play the homophobia card but I'm pretty sure it's less about the gay thing #and more about it being HORRIBLY INVASIVE AND WEIRD #the only thing I'll agree on is that them saying this doesn't happen to male artists was weird #it does in fact happen I'm pretty sure it's been happening to harry styles for a while now #and that's just as weird as long as we're here leave harry alone too #this has been a PSA

[ray-vnn]

Taylor Swift songs that scream Gretson (to me):

(Bc I said I would make a list and put illicit affairs in the first place)

Illicit affairs: it’s (kinda) literally canon

Seven: If they met as kids and were friends and fell in love but didn’t realize until they were in their 20s (yes it’s an AU fight me)

Gold Rush: WHAT MUST IT BE LIKE TO GROW UP THAT BEAUTIFUL? WITH YOUR HAIR FALLING INTO PLACE LIKE DOMINOES. (are you telling me Carson doesn’t sing this every time she sees Greta?)

You Belong With Me: I just… okay this has been my song of choice for every non-canon ship. AND it just so happens that it also fits Greta looking at Carson and Charlie if they were teenagers yk?

Style: AND I GOT THAT RED LIP CLASSIC THING THAT YOU LIKE

Cardigan: they literally kissed in a car and a downtown bar and talked about stars and scars from the past. This is THEIR song.

The Great War: it’s set during war. I VOWED I WOULD ALWAYS BE YOURS CAUSE WE SURVIVED THE GREAT WAR (i just think it’s neat)

The Way I Loved You: I never knew I could feel that much And that’s the way I loved you. It’s literally Carson after kissing Greta for the first time. (And you can’t fight me on this one).

Would’ve, Could’ve, Should’ve: It’s just gonna be lyrics okay? “And now that I know I wish you’d left me wondering” is that not “Sometimes I wish I never knew what it felt like to be with her… ‘Cause then the end wouldn’t hurt like this”???? “If you never touched me, I would've Gone along with the righteous If I never blushed, then they could've Never whispered about this And if you never saved me from boredom I could've gone on as I was But, Lord, you made me feel important And then you tried to erase us” that’s the feeling behind “to the five” it’s too long idgaf.

Lover: Can I go where you go? Can we always be this close? “What would happen if I came to California with you?” ??!?!?!?!!!??!!!!

Anti-Hero: I just think it has a lot of Greta vibes.

Mastermind: That’s so “She doesn’t look like that much competition” GRETA YOUR LESBIAN IS SHOWING

Invisible string: last but not least. I won’t elaborate but I love this song.

Death By A Thousand Cuts: “THE ONLY THING WE SHARE IS THIS SMALL TOWN” “PAPER CUT STINGS FROM OUR PAPER THIN PLANS” do I have to say more? (Thank you @youroldfriendmurkyaura )

#might add more from different singers/bands later #it just so happens that I started listening to more TS when I realized I’m a lesbian #and without ALOTO I wouldn’t have realized that so they just kinda go hand in hand in my brain #shoutout to Betty bc atfau on twitter makes me think about that song too #and to welcome to new york; a song I’ve never listened to but It has NY in the name and Greta is from NY so🤷🏻‍♀️ #gretson #greta gill #carson shaw #ALOTO #a league of their own

[transbianyearning]

I wish every "couple looking for a third" a very die slowly and painfully through excruciating torment

#every fucking time #i think i got something #but NOOOO its gotta be some dipshit ugly white dude #and his undeservedly hot girlfriend #cant have shit in NY #lesbian #wlw #sapphic #lesbian pride #wlw love #wlw yearning #please im so lonely #transgender #trans women #trans woman

[sarah-denial-cq]

Really Google, you're going to push-notification serve me this article?

You could have at least included a cherry or a pancake so I could feel represented. Time to edge to a mainstream news article about how important breast size is and how much smaller and less desirable mine are than average.

#also fjck the ny post #the article is just a bunch of fatphobia #lesbian #writtenwhileedging #denied #femaleorgasmdenial

[sillypilled-friendcel]

more cringefail dykes pls

#i cant fill this role on ny own #and im not talking abt the whole “haha useless lesbian sees pretty girl and is dumb haha” #i mean genuinely just dykes who are so fucking cringe and so fuckung fail #like ME!!!!!

[98percentofthewnbaisgay]

thinking about queer visibility so here’s a video from 2022 where Stewie talks about why she chooses to be openly gay 🩵🫂

#womens basketball #wnba #wnba blog #breanna stewart #ny liberty #new york liberty #seattle storm #lesbian athletes #lgbtq #lgbtq athletes