Lesbian Chic

While the Lesbian avengers stormed the streets in Dyke Marches, protesting in AIDS actions, and eating fire, wholeheartedly embracing their queerness, their power and their resistance, another kind of lesbian visibility was on the rise. The same year Dyke TV came out, K.D. lang made it onto the cover of New York Magazine, which proclaimed the issue “lesbian chic.”  This term would be used to describe the simultaneous 90’s phenomenon of lesbians making their way into the upper echelons of popular culture. They were most often thin, white, wealthy, sexy, and most importantly, not protesting anything in particular. Here are some times Dyke TV considered this cultural shift.