Cruising | Queer History and Culture
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.
Cruising | Queer History and Culture website
Episodes
- Doc Marie's | Portland, OR
- Lost and Found | Chicago, IL
- Cruising the Archives: Lillian Faderman
- Cruising the Archives: Ms. Mabel Hampton
- A League of Her Own | Washington, DC
- Highlights From Our Lesbian Bar Road Trip
- Heather Purser on passing same sex marriage in her tribe, and meeting the love of her life at 7 years old
- Wild Side West | San Francisco, CA
- Introducing Season 3: Beyond the Bars
- Bonus Content: Summer | Doc Marie's
- Dorothy Downstairs | Chicago, IL
- Pearl Bar | Houston, TX
- Walker's Pint | Milwaukee, WI
- Alibi's | Oklahoma City, OK
- Henrietta Hudson | New York, NY
- Angeli Luz on creating the Lesbian Masterdoc and the backlash
- LIVE: Community Story Share at As You Are (Washington, DC / 05.28.26)
- Activists Heather Booth and Martha Scott on their historic underground abortion network
- Valery Hughes on nursing in NYC hospitals during the AIDS epidemic, and falling in love in the on-call room
- Activist Mandy Carter on war resistance, the Quaker tradition, and the search for her long lost siblings
- Nobody's Darling | Chicago, IL
- LIVE: Community Story Share at Gossip Grill and Diversionary Theatre (San Diego, CA)
- Gossip Grill | San Diego, CA
- An Update From Cruising!
- Introducing Cruising - Trailer
- Charlene’s | New Orleans, LA
- Bonus Content: Anjali Kumaran | The Sports Bra
- Slammers | Columbus, OH
- Diane on coming out at 77, going viral, and life as a nun
- The Lipstick Lounge | Nashville, TN
- YBR Pub | Tulsa, OK
- Activist Sue Say on the Greenham Common Women’s Peace Encampment, organizing in prisons, and annoying the police as best you can
- Bonus Content: Ray | Doc Marie's
- Barbara Smith on The Combahee River Collective, lesbian identity, and Black feminism
- Lez Hang Out! Ep. 317: God Save the Lesbian Bar w/ Lisa Cannistraci
- Ginger's | Brooklyn, NY
- LIVE: Community Story Share at The Lipstick Lounge (Nashville, TN / 06.06.26)
- Jess Dobkin and Lisa DeBoer on the "Lesbian Time-Out Kiss-In," Lesbian Avengers, and queer visibility in the WNBA
- Angela Denise Davis on ZAMI NOBLA and moving through the world as a Black, blind, lesbian.
- Shame Spiral, S1 E32: "You're Not Gonna Call Me Dirty Because You Feel Dirty" w/ Robby Hoffman
- Bernie Stark on women's softball, Title IX, and trans inclusion in sports
- Introducing Season 2! - Trailer
- Elaine Stott on trying dr*gs at 5, getting kicked out of school bathrooms, and her journey to Survivor
- Bonus Content: Teryl Lynn Foxx | Les Pierres
- LIVE: Community Story Share (Northampton, MA / 06.01.26)
- Alice Brady's | New Orleans, LA
- The Queer Family Podcast, S19 E1: Gays With Kids Founder Brian Rosenberg
- Sean Monaghan and Susanna Stein on Stud Country, Big Apple Ranch, and the history of queer country western dancing
- Cruising the Archives: Pete Smith
- Michelle Axelson on Womencrafts Provincetown, the "dyke discount," and existing within a spectrum of a community