Long cast aside, queer women are starting to get their due from the music industry

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Trish Bendix is a writer based in Los Angeles. She is a regular contributor to The New York Times, Bustle and Conde Nast's them.

Perhaps there’s no better image of lesbian visibility than the cast of “The L Word” introducing pop star Reneé Rapp in front of two giant pairs of scissors last week on the Coachella stage. Rapp, 24, has been on a steady rise after starring in “Mean Girls: The Musical” and hitting the Billboard charts with her Megan Thee Stallion collaboration, “It’s Not My Fault” .

During the heyday of the “Women Who Rock” era in the ‘90s, out lesbian and bisexual women involved with the riot grrrl movement and indie folk rock saw their influence usurped by the mainstreaming of “angry women” like Alanis Morrisette and Courtney Love.

 

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