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Phyllis Christopher’s photographs offer an intimate look at the city’s queer community, documenting their fight for sexual, artistic and political freedom

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The pandemic has led to a surge in queer women seeking connection the old-fashioned way: the mail People are sending stickers, raunchy Polaroid pictures, tea bags, paintings, vintage Valentine's Day cards — all to people they don't know and may never meet. Social Sharing People are sending Polaroid pictures and vintage Valentines — all to people they don't know and may never meet Posted: Mar 29, 2021 1:45 PM ET | Last Updated: March 29 (Maighdlin Mahoney) This morning I crept through the snow in my bare feet to check the mail. Shivering, I opened the lid to find a letter. On the envelope ...

Curve magazine founder Frances "Franco" Stevens celebrated the popular lesbian magazine's 30th anniversary with three big announcements last week. She bought back the publication, established a foundation to oversee it, and is releasing a documentary. In 2010, lesbian publisher Stevens sold the magazine she conceived and grew for two decades to fellow lesbian publisher Silke Bader of Avalon Media in Sydney, Australia. Australian lesbian media expert Merryn Johns became editor-in-chief, leading the magazine in New York for the past decade. That all changed this year. Stevens posted a video ann...

Margo St. James, a noted sex-positive feminist and pioneer of the sex workers' rights movement, died January 11 at age 83. Ms. St. James had been living in a memory care facility in Washington state and was moved to hospice care after a fall, according to her longtime friend Carol Stuart. Ms. St. James founded the sex worker activist group COYOTE (Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics), organized the infamous Hooker's Balls in the 1970s, was nearly elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1996, and is the namesake of St. James Infirmary, the nation's first health clinic for sex workers.