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June 11, 2:16 pm

Younger Ice Queen Winners, Great Pride Giveaway, and More!
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Thank you to our sponsor Gemma Walker for featuring The Judge, the Jailer and the Thief.

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Happy Wednesday!

How is it Wednesday already? TB needs three more days this week to stay on top of her daily tasks. It doesn't help that she has so many appointments each week to deal with her back. Please send calming vibes into the universe.

Now for today's news. 

After hundreds of votes, the moment has arrived to crown the top 3 sapphic Younger Ice Queen winners!

Click here to find out the top 3 Younger Ice Queen winners

Author Name Scramble

For this game, we'll scramble a sapphic author's name, allowing you to work it out. In Thursday's newsletter, we'll share the answer along with a new author name scramble.

All of the letters for the author's first and last names are below, but we don't guarantee that the letters are in the correct part of the name or that the first and last names have the same number of letters as the scramble. 

Tuesday's scramble was: Reva Mamel -- the name is Mae Marvel

Here's today's scramble: 

Brawen Miggo

Remember, the answer will be revealed in Thursday's newsletter. Hint: the author is involved in today's Great Pride Giveaway. 

Queer Trivia

She was an American activist and community leader in San Francisco.

Born in 1922, she served in the military and lived in Los Angeles during the 1940s, where she became part of the city's vibrant gay bar scene. She also spent time in the gay bars of North Beach in San Francisco, where strict butch-femme roles defined queer social life. Identifying as butch, she was photographed in 1945 wearing a suit and tie at Oakland’s Claremont Resort alongside other lesbians, which became a widely circulated image that captured the era’s queer visibility.

She played a key leadership role in the Society for Individual Rights (SIR), a San Francisco-based organization founded in 1964 that championed equal rights for gay men and lesbians, encouraging political engagement and community connection through events like fundraisers, dances, and educational programs.

In 1966, she opened a lesbian bar called Maud’s—originally known as "Maud's Study" or simply "The Study"—on Cole Street in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood. The next year, the area became ground zero for the 1967 Summer of Love and the rise of the hippie movement. As one historian noted, Maud’s helped “bridge the gap between San Francisco’s lesbian community and its hippie generation.” At the time, city law prohibited women from working as bartenders, so she either tended bar herself or hired men. 

Maud’s soon became a beloved hub for lesbians and bisexual women in the city, with singer Janis Joplin among its notable patrons.

She was a devoted advocate for gay and lesbian softball teams and co-founded the Gay Olympics, later renamed the Gay Games, which began in San Francisco. She played a key role in establishing the Federation of Gay Games and served on its board of directors. “Sports are the great social equalizer,” she once said. “It’s perhaps the only time when who you are matters less than how you play the game.”

She died of cancer on August 21, 1994, at the age of 68, and was survived by her partner, Mary Sager. In her honor, the mayor of San Francisco ordered city flags to be flown at half-mast.

Do you know her name? The answer is at the bottom of the email. 

Thank you to our sponsor Persephone Black for featuring Lone Wolf.

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Great Pride eBook Giveaway

It's Day 11 of the Great Pride Giveaway!

Today there are 53 books involved, and check out TB surrounded by chaos.

Click here to enter the giveaway and to find out why TB had to be careful where she stepped. 

The last day to enter the June 11 giveaway is tomorrow. The winner will be randomly selected and notified by email on June 13.

Tomorrow (June 12), there'll be another fab giveaway to enter!

Please note, entering just once doesn't enter you for all 30 giveaways. Each one is separate with different prizes.

Just in case you didn't toss your name into the hat yesterday, you can right here. It closes later today, June 11, so don't wait.

Storytime with TB & Miranda

Click here to learn about the time Miranda wrecked TB's back (possibly). To enter the eBook giveaway, we're asking you to go to the Patreon post and leave a comment letting us know about a time you regretted going on an adventure or doing an activity. 

This should be a free post. If it isn't, please let us know so we can correct the issue. 

Thank you to our sponsor Katia Rose for featuring Paint the Moon.

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Guess the Author

Visit today's Best of the Best winners post to read the third clue. There are only two more clues before we spill the beans on Saturday, so the pressure is building. 

Weekly eBook Giveaway

There are 10 books in the Historical Fiction giveaway. That's right. One winner will get all 10 books! Don't miss out.

Enter to win all the books right here.

The last day to enter is June 15.  

What Are You Reading?

If you're not familiar with our Wednesday check-ins, it's part of the yearlong reading challenge we run on I Heart SapphFic. Each month, we award one winner a $25 Amazon gift card. It's simple to enter. Just leave a comment on this post telling us what sapphic book you're reading.

Hop on over to Storytime with TB and Miranda to enter to win an eBook!  

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Jae's Pride Month Book Calendar

Have you looked behind Door #11 yet?

Open it right here.

Patreon Author of the Week

The IHS Patreon Author of the Week is the wonderful Hudson Lin.

On Monday, Hudson shared 3 truths and a lie. Hop on over to guess the lie.  

On Tuesday, Hudson Lin shared a photo you don't want to miss

Leave a comment on both posts to enter to win Dragon Boats & Doctor's Notes.

You can follow us for free in order to leave a comment to enter the giveaway. To join for free, click on the conversation emoji at the bottom of the post and it'll ask you to join for free to comment. 

Have a rainbow-filled day, peeps!

Miranda and TB

Queer Trivia Answer: 

Rikki Streicher

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