a bunch of good faith resources !!

most links contain their own primary resources or are primary resources. content warning for D, F & T slurs, intersex slurs, HIV and AIDS, mild NSFW, and general bigotry.

this information has been compiled for the education of everyone as well as providing a genuine resource for anyone using good faith identities to get in touch with our history. this is not discourse, its a preservation of queer history.


explaining lesboys

history of mspec lesbians

explaining bi lesbians onetwo

explaining mspec lesbians onetwothree

mspec lesbian & gay masterdoc

misc mspec lesbian & gay resources onetwo

archiving "anything that moves"

poem from a bi lesbian in the 1990s

"trans-sexuality: bisexual formations and limits of categories" by josephine ho (2004)

"liliane, bi-dyke" by leanne franson

interviewing bi lesbians onetwothreefourfive

graphics about lesbian solidarity & inclusion

a rant about the history & validity of lesbian trans men, from a trans lesbian (7 mins)

rants about the historical and modern value of queer solidarity & inclusionism onetwo

mspec lesbian hate is recycled bigotry & terf-like mentality


"Labeling" by Leanne Franson "Transsexual women are not a Trojan horse trying to infiltrate women's space. There have always been transsexual women helping to build the women's movement — they are part of virtually every large gathering of women. They want to be welcomed into women's space for the same reason every woman does — to feel safe." "And our female-to-male transsexual brothers have a right to feel welcomed at women's movement events or lesbian bars. However, that shouldn't feed into the misconception that all female-to-male transsexuals were butches who just couldn't deal with their oppression as lesbians. If that were true, then why does a large percentage of post-transition transsexual men identify as gay and bisexual, which may have placed them in a heterosexual or bisexual stafus before their transition? There are transsexual men who did help build the women's and lesbian communities, and still have a large base of friends there. They should enjoy the support of women on their journey. Doesn't everyone want their friends around them at a time of great change? And women could learn a great deal about what it means to be a man or a woman from sharing the lessons of transition."


"Anything That Moves" "While groups of the 1970s were often predominantly male, a notable shift occured in the 1980s. Bisexual women had begun experiencing an increasing alienation from the lesbian communities throughout the 1970s and 1980s, in part due to a redefinition of the concept of lesbianism. Previously, a woman was defined as a lesbian if she loved and was committed to women; during the 1980s, lesbianism came to be defined more in terms of not loving or having sexual relationships with men. Some lesbians had had negative experiences working with heterosexual feminists in groups such as NOW, and were determined to form lesbian-only communities. Many of the bi groups begun in the 1980s were founded on feminist principles and led by women who had previously been apart of these lesbian communities."

"AIDS also had a profound effect on bisexual communities in the 1980s. Bi men were stigmatized as transmitters of HIV from the gay community to the "general population". Many men who had been leaders in bi communities became ill or died. Many other bi men and women turned their attention to AIDS-related activism and service. In the late 1980s, as awareness of of AIDS among women increased, bisexual women were blamed for bringing HIV into lesbian communities. These developments spurred discussions about the distinctions between sexual behavior and sexual identity (for example, many self-identified bisexual women did not have sex with men, while many self-identified lesbians did). Many bisexual women thought it unfair they were ostracized from lesbian communities for being honest about their dual attractions while some self-professed lesbians retained their positions in those communities by keeping their relationships with men secret."


"My Gender Workbook" by Kate Bornstein "7. always queer, finally dyke, a run of the mill hermaphrodite mom." "8. a born again woman." "9. A God+Godess, part of everything, owned by nothing." "10. I think... I am a female fag, who is a drag Queen, who is a mother, has a soon to be transman lover and may very well be a tranny hisself. I hate labels it's all so complicated, but I think it fits the bill today. Change is good right?"

"25. FTM transgendered bulldagger, gentleman stone butch dyke with fag tendencies. Or as my girlfriend says, a drag queen trapped in a man trapped in a woman's body." "26. I'm a bi-gendered boychick with balls and boobs. Call me Ken, or call me Barbie — same doll, different packaging; some assembly required; sex, clothing, and accessories sold separately; available in fine boy-tiques everywhere."

"39. I'm the Dyke of Androgyny... i get called sir more than maam, despite the sizable mammary glands protruding from my chest. The hair on my head is the shortest found on my body, a gentle societal mindfuck, if you will." "40. Transsexual dyke, submissive pervert, percussion fetishist, computer geek, and subversive queermonger." "41. Just another brassy womyn who happened to be born with a penis." "42. Two-spirited mixed-blood transgender working-class sober queer boy dyke daddy."


"I Know What Butch Is", Butch is a Noun, Essays by S. Bear Bergman (2006) "I know what butch is. Butches are not beginner FTMs, except that sometimes they are, but it's not a continuum except when it is. Butch is not a trans identity unless the butch in question says it is, in which case it is, unless the tranny in question says it isn't, in which case it's not. There is no such thing as butch flight, no matter what the femmes or elders say, unless saying that invalidates the opinions of femmes in a sexist fashion or the opinions of elders in an ageist fashion. Or if they're right. But they are not, because butch and transgender are the same thing with different names, except that butch is not a trans identity, unless it is; see above."


“PERSISTENCE: All Ways Butch and Femme, Coming Back Around to Butch” Miriam Zoila Pérez, On Butch and Femme: Compiled Readings, (edited by I.M. Epstein) (2017) "Faggy butch was good. It accurately described my pink button-down shirts, my giggles, the fact that I talked with my hands. I once saw a tape of myself in which I made a gesture that looked more like it belonged in A Chorus Line than in the middle of an interview. Faggy butch was like genderqueer -- not quite this or that, a little of both, maybe. A friend once said to me, "I access my femininity through my masculinity."

I feel lucky to have grown up in a world with butch pioneers, and I feel lucky that I had an idea about what being butch might have meant. But instead of making me feel part of the community, these constructions of what butch was -- stereotypes really-- pushed me away from the word and identity. Instead I chose a newer term, genderqueer, which had yet to be defined; it was in flux, it was a new frontier. I may not have been butch "enough", but genderqueer was all mine to rewrite and redefine.

I still like the word "genderqueer," still claim it and own it and love the way it makes room for me, in all my complexities. But I'm coming back around to butch. Maybe its because the years of pink prom dresses are further and further behind me, maybe its because i'm learning from butch elders who talk in terms that make room for me, giggles and all. Maybe its because the people i know have no idea (unless I tell them) that i was never a tomboy. They only know me -- my short hair tightly bound chest, and button down shirts.

I think that every new generation feels the need to reject their elders, reject what came before them, and feel that they are knew gender rebels. We invent terms, we create new spaces, and sometimes, we come back to where our big brothers started -- home."


"The Lesbian Tide" "I think there may be a handful of men — somewhere out there — with the gentleness and sensitivity I find essential for a meaningful relationship. It's possible that the only men who fit these qualifications are gay — in which case I will be physically lesbian and emotionally bisexual. You can see how ridiculous labels are... all I'm interested in is good relationships."


"Bisexual Women" by R. Drew, Bi Women Quarterly (1984)link "But here's a way for you to guess how many bisexual women exist in the lesbian community: The next time you find yourself surrounded by lesbians, at a workshop, a bar, a party, a dance, a benefit, a rally, a rap group, a class, ask yourself how many women would still be there if all the bisexual lesbians got up and left. Ask yourself what would happen if all the bisexual lesbians removed their names from the petitions, removed their dollars from the lesbian community, removed their donated time from the causes, removed their voices from the literature, removed their bodies from the beds."

"It's just a hypothetical situation, since bisexual lesbians are a large and irremovable part of the lesbian community, even if many lesbians treat them with insults, ignorance, stereotyping, exclusion, rejection, invalidation, and, worst of all, silence. / R. Drew / San Francisco"


"Bisexuality" by Trish Miller in Lavender Woman Vol. 2 No. 5 (1973)link "What is a Lesbian? To me, a lesbian is a woman-oriented woman; bisexuals can be lesbians. A lesbian does not have to be exclusively woman-oriented, she does not have to prove herself in bed, she does not have to hate men, she does not have to be sexually active at all times, she does not have to be a radical feminist. She does not have to like bars, like gay culture, or like being gay. When lesbians degrade other lesbians for not going to bars, not coming out, being bisexual, or not sexually active, and so on, we oppress each other."


"Liliane, Bi-Dyke" by Leanne Franson (2005)link (ID: Liliane Minicomic number 39, drawn by cartoonist and author Leanne Franson in 2005. The title of the series, "Liliane, Bi-Dyke" is in a spiked insert with a small portrait of Liliane to the right labeled by a banner that reads, "OFFLINE!" There are the venus4venus symbol and venus4mars symbol next to the word "in" drawn in bubble letters, and below that is "Het-Dyke" drawn in large bubble letters. The full title reads "Liliane, Bi-Dyke in Het-Dyke". Below the title is Liliane to the left and a butch woman to the right. Liliane, a grinning woman with short hair who is stylized with no nose says, "Betty! You're the hottest dyke in town!" The woman on the right is smiling and has a short, neatly styled haircut, a hoop earring, and wears a leather jacket— she says, "It's Brian now." / end ID)


"The Homosexual and the Beat Generation" by Wallace de Ortega Maxey (1959)link "The final outcome in Jim Doe's story is interesting. He met a girl named Dora, a confirmed Lesbian. They got married and now have two children, a boy and a girl. Jim still says he is an homosexual and Dora affirms she is still a Lesbian, and they both live in Beatnik-land."

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