
Cruising | Queer History and Culture
Sarah Gabrielli, Rachel Karp, and Jennifer McGinity
Conversations about lesbian bars, sapphic spaces, and beyond! Not sure where to start? You don’t have to listen in order! Pick your favorite city, space, or LGBTQ+ icon and dive in.
Season 1 follows creators Sarah Gabrielli, Rachel Karp, and Jen McGinity on their 2021 cross-country road trip to every lesbian bar in the U.S., sharing the stories of the humans that run these spaces and the humans that call them a home.
Season 2 features 14 more spaces, chronicling the current lesbian bar resurgence AND taking you back in time to lesbian bars of decades past.
In Season 3, host Sarah Gabrielli sits down with history-making lesbians and LGBTQ+ folks to discuss all kinds of queer spaces - from bookstores, to farms, to peace encampments and more!
New episodes air every other Tuesday.
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Episodes(89)

Organizer Meg Riley on living in a lesbian co-op, the history of radical resistance in Minneapolis, and the ICE surge
12 May 20261h 28m

Activist Mandy Carter on war resistance, the Quaker tradition, and the search for her long lost siblings
28 Apr 20261h 2m

Franco Stevens on the history of Curve Magazine, lesbian visibility, and extremely creative fundraising
14 Apr 202657 min

Activists Heather Booth and Martha Scott on their historic underground abortion network
3 Mar 20261h 3m

Margaret Cho on her parents’ gay bookstore, BDSM during HIV/AIDS, and why Ellen hates her
17 Feb 202649 min

Carmen Maria Machado on writing 'In the Dream House,' tops/bottoms, and the forgotten history of queer DV
25 Nov 20251h 15m

Elaine Stott on trying dr*gs at 5, getting kicked out of school bathrooms, and her journey to Survivor
11 Nov 20251h 11m

Brooke Webster on Meow Mix, Cattyshack, and being featured in Chasing Amy and Go Fish
28 Oct 202554 min

Jess Dobkin and Lisa DeBoer on the "Lesbian Time-Out Kiss-In," Lesbian Avengers, and queer visibility in the WNBA
14 Oct 202555 min

Oak Chezar on rejecting the patriarchy and more stories from Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp
30 Sept 20251h 15m

Tricia Cooke on making a lesbian B-movie trilogy, and her polyamorous marriage with Ethan Coen
2 Sept 20251h 4m

Shame Spiral, S1 E32: "You're Not Gonna Call Me Dirty Because You Feel Dirty" w/ Robby Hoffman
5 Aug 20251h 32m

Michelle Axelson on Womencrafts Provincetown, the "dyke discount," and existing within a spectrum of a community
22 July 202543 min