# beth elliott — RSS Amplifier Everything beth elliott publishes, via the RSS Amplifier directory. Page: Feed: --- ## [Asshattery International](https://bethelliott.substack.com/p/asshattery-international) _2026-08-04 · Getting the L out ... Notes from the lesbian diaspora_ It’s hard to imagine that Amnesty International would call a women-only support center and refuge for female victims of sexual violence that, during its first year of operation, served approximately 2,000 women, with 250 using it as a refuge, an “anti-rights organization,” but here we are. ## [Asshattery International](https://bethelliott.substack.com/p/asshattery-international-2c9) _2026-08-04 · Getting the L out ... Notes from the lesbian diaspora_ It’s hard to imagine that Amnesty International would call a women-only support center and refuge for female victims of sexual violence that, during its first year of operation, served approximately 2,000 women, with 250 using it as a refuge, an “anti-rights organization,” but here we are. ## [The unoriginal and still the lamest](https://bethelliott.substack.com/p/the-unoriginal-and-still-the-lamest) _2026-08-04 · Getting the L out ... Notes from the lesbian diaspora_ I recently had a social media-induced eye-rolling moment. It was a post that said Playboy magazine was about to have its first lesbian Playmate of the Month. Yeah, right: displaying one’s naked body for men’s pleasure is a heterosexual act, making this bimbo actually bisexual, if she’s not just faking it. ## [Bar memories](https://bethelliott.substack.com/p/bar-memories) _2026-07-28 · Getting the L out ... Notes from the lesbian diaspora_ Lesbian bars are not quite dead yet. As a matter of fact, they’re feeling much better.Getting the L out ... ## [That DAR clusterfiasco](https://bethelliott.substack.com/p/that-dar-clusterfiasco) _2026-07-21 · Getting the L out ... Notes from the lesbian diaspora_ You may have read about the Daughters of the American Revolution brouhaha over a proposal to limit membership to those who can prove the birth certificates that denote them as female reflect their sex as observed at birth. Specifically, ## [Step forward to step back ratio](https://bethelliott.substack.com/p/step-forward-to-step-back-ratio) _2026-07-14 · Getting the L out ... Notes from the lesbian diaspora_ I don’t know what it is precisely, but I do know two things. One is that women took a giant step forward with the Supreme Court decision West Virginia v. ## [Wave that flag](https://bethelliott.substack.com/p/wave-that-flag) _2026-07-07 · Getting the L out ... Notes from the lesbian diaspora_ I was well aware that the 250th anniversary was something over which to make a big deal, but my color scheme for both Pride and Independence Day was tie-dye. Tie-dye comes much closer to the original Rainbow Flag, as opposed to the bastardized, artificially woke-enhanced “rainbow” flag. ## [The rainbow disconnection](https://bethelliott.substack.com/p/the-rainbow-disconnection) _2026-06-30 · Getting the L out ... Notes from the lesbian diaspora_ This was my first running off at the mouth: ## [Happy Contentment Month](https://bethelliott.substack.com/p/happy-contentment-month-2d6) _2026-06-23 · Getting the L out ... Notes from the lesbian diaspora_ You know you’ve gone a good job with “Pride” when you don’t need it anymore, and can simply enjoy your gay life in America. Yes, there are still people with nasty attitudes about gay people, as there are still people with nasty attitudes about people of color, etc., which means nobody is completely safe. ## [Happy Contentment Month](https://bethelliott.substack.com/p/happy-contentment-month) _2026-06-16 · Getting the L out ... Notes from the lesbian diaspora_ You know you’ve gone a good job with “Pride” when you don’t need it anymore, and can simply enjoy your gay life in America. ## [International money transfers (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/2FGUoFCRFyQ2) _2026-06-16 · **Sponsored**_ Send money to other countries and manage multi‑currency balances online. ## [Ball of Confusion](https://bethelliott.substack.com/p/ball-of-confusion) _2026-06-09 · Getting the L out ... Notes from the lesbian diaspora_ That’s what the world is today, hey hey. ## [Bird song and foghorns](https://bethelliott.substack.com/p/bird-song-and-foghorns) _2026-06-05 · Getting the L out ... Notes from the lesbian diaspora_ I made more returns to the west side of San Francisco recently, and they came with that feeling of San Francisco being my natural habitat, even though I retreat to the sunnier and warmer East Bay when it’s time to go home. ## [No Giggling matter](https://bethelliott.substack.com/p/no-giggling-matter) _2026-05-26 · Getting the L out ... Notes from the lesbian diaspora_ In which we channel the Southern sheriff from “Cool Hand Luke” ## [Sh\_ts and Giggles](https://bethelliott.substack.com/p/sh_ts-and-giggles) _2026-05-19 · Getting the L out ... Notes from the lesbian diaspora_ I spent a recent Saturday afternoon in the far northwestern corner of San Francisco. ## [An unfortunate classical allusion](https://bethelliott.substack.com/p/an-unfortunate-classical-allusion) _2026-05-12 · Getting the L out ... Notes from the lesbian diaspora_ One of the things Gavin Newsom has done to drive California into the ground was extending Medical coverage to illegal immigrants. ## [Get your motor runnin’](https://bethelliott.substack.com/p/get-your-motor-runnin) _2026-05-04 · Getting the L out ... Notes from the lesbian diaspora_ I hate when this happens … I hate it when I hear a song on the radio that sounds for all the world like a young woman singing romantically about another young woman, only it turns out to be a young man singing. ## [Holy Retrospective Week](https://bethelliott.substack.com/p/holy-retrospective-week) _2026-04-28 · Getting the L out ... Notes from the lesbian diaspora_ Actually, it was more than a week, and, actually, it was more of a “Holy crap!” week when it started on Good Friday. ## [More musical interludes](https://bethelliott.substack.com/p/more-musical-interludes) _2026-04-21 · Getting the L out ... Notes from the lesbian diaspora_ When I’d get exasperated by stupid human behavior, my late bestie would settle me down by saying, “Now, Bethie, don’t get so upset. ## [Propaganda never sleeps](https://bethelliott.substack.com/p/propaganda-never-sleeps) _2026-04-14 · Getting the L out ... Notes from the lesbian diaspora_ The efforts to make gender identity a stand-in for sex, and to place trans-identified males in spaces and positions that should really be for women, is a sprawling mess. ## [Dissecting Series A Rounds (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/gNMNZLrdmreT) _2026-04-14 · **Sponsored**_ Two real Series A cases: timelines, investor sequencing, and common founder mistakes. ## [Pearl clutching as an Olympic sport](https://bethelliott.substack.com/p/pearl-clutching-as-an-olympic-sport) _2026-04-07 · Getting the L out ... Notes from the lesbian diaspora_ In which we go after Olympic Spa v. Armstrong