For Transgender Awareness Week and Transgender Day of Remembrance, we remember Christine Jorgensen, who broke down barriers and was proud of it.

It’s hard to disassociate Jenny Shimizu from superstar actress Angelina Jolie, but the Japanese-American lesbian supermodel is a celebrity in her own right.

It’s easy to think that Jill Soloway being a lesbian could have leaked over to her TV shows like 'Transparent.' But Jill's stories aren't about her.

If there was great love story among the Lost Generation writers, we believe it was the long relationship between Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas.

Kitty Genovese became famous as a victim, left to die while her neighbors ignored her cries for help in a New York neighborhood. She was also a lesbian.

We've been crushing on Kate McKinnon, an out and proud lesbian, ever since she played the role of Jillian Holtzman in the new version of Ghostbusters.

Though Fannie Benjamin Johnston and Mattie Edwards Hewitt made their mark in photography, all that was left of their relationship were their love letters.

Though 'Fingersmith' author Sarah Waters writes lesbian fiction, her fiction is also about lesbians as characters that are solidly integral to the story.

In terms of being lesbians and their music, twin sisters Tegan and Sara can't do anything wrong with their fan base, both LGBT and straight.

While other women were supposed to marry well and become quiet housewives and mothers, the Ladies of Llangollen decided they wanted to live their own lives.

Despite the passage of years, author Rita Mae Brown-- who wrote the seminal lesbian novel Rubyfruit Jungle-- is still as opinionated as ever.

Two of the more famous pirates were women-- Anne Bonny and Mary Read-- and both of them were actually more ruthless than their male counterparts.

The pathologist Louise Pearce helped develop a treatment for the African sleeping sickness that cured 80 percent of the cases during an epidemic in Africa.

Maura Healey is the Massachusetts Attorney General, the first openly gay state attorney general elected in the US fighting to regulate assault weapons.

What with all the bisexual myths that people assumed were true, bisexuals never had it easy. Since it’s Bisexual Visibility Day, let’s correct these myths.

For the upcoming Bisexual Visibility Day, we thought we'd go look up the rather colorful life of US Congresswoman Kyrsten Sinema.

When reggae queen Diana King proclaimed herself as a lesbian on Facebook in 2012, her stance resounded loudly through the social media world.

Sara Josephine Baker was a lesbian physician who not only saved 90,000 children through her innovative ideas but also revolutionized US public health care.

As an LGBT ally, actress Natasha Lyonne shot to fame in Orange is the New Black and is the latest among a number of lesbian icons who are straight.

When NASA astronaut Sally Ride died at the age of 61, her obituary revealed that she was also a lesbian-- making her the first lesbian astronaut in space.

Clementine Ford of The L Word fame caused a bit of a stir a few years back when she tried to define her sexual fluidity on her own terms.

Despite her depression and alcoholism, Patricia Highsmith contributed incomparable creations like Carol Aird and Tom Ripley to American literature.

Director Lisa Cholodenko knows that art needs to reflect real life, even as she brought the lesbian world into the mainstream with The Kids are Alright.

The poet Audre Lorde spent her life and her creative talent in confronting and addressing the injustices of racism, sexism, and homophobia.

A recent recipient of the Screen Actors Guild Lifetime Achievement Award, Lily Tomlin has had quite a career, from stand-up comedian to actress.

Edna St. Vincent Millay was a 20th-century poet who became the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923. She was also a bisexual.

The Muslim, Indian-born but London-raised, lesbian novelist and filmmaker Shamim Sarif brings a multiplicity of perspectives to what she does.

Fergie of the Black-Eyed Peas has come a long way, but she’s now accepted herself completely: married and bisexual.

Elsie de Wolfe and Elisabeth Marbury were considered the lesbian power couple of their period, both of them pioneers in their respective fields.

As soon as Cynthia Nixon stepped out of her role as Miranda Hobbes in Sex and the City, she drew attention for coming out as lesbian by choice.