# Getting the L out ... Notes from the lesbian diaspora I'm still big. It's feminism that got small. Page: Feed: --- ## [Asshattery International](https://bethelliott.substack.com/p/asshattery-international) _2026-08-04 · beth elliott_ 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 · beth elliott_ 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 · beth elliott_ 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 · beth elliott_ 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 · beth elliott_ 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 · beth elliott_ 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 · beth elliott_ 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 · beth elliott_ This was my first running off at the mouth: ## [Happy Contentment Month](https://bethelliott.substack.com/p/happy-contentment-month-2d6) _2026-06-23 · beth elliott_ 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 · beth elliott_ 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. ## [Non-Custodial Crypto Gateway (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/YvP31FFKFKad) _2026-06-16 · **Sponsored**_ Accept multi-chain crypto, automated fee handling, and trustless escrow with real-time settlement. ## [Ball of Confusion](https://bethelliott.substack.com/p/ball-of-confusion) _2026-06-09 · beth elliott_ 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 · beth elliott_ 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 · beth elliott_ 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 · beth elliott_ 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 · beth elliott_ 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 · beth elliott_ 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 · beth elliott_ 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 · beth elliott_ 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 · beth elliott_ 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. ## [Refer a Friend, Earn Rewards (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/nfE7dUEMw4A4) _2026-04-14 · **Sponsored**_ Earn rewards when a friend signs up for the Graphite Business Card ## [Pearl clutching as an Olympic sport](https://bethelliott.substack.com/p/pearl-clutching-as-an-olympic-sport) _2026-04-07 · beth elliott_ In which we go after Olympic Spa v. 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