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"fag-got," Christopher Street Liberation Day Parade, New York City, June 30, 1974. Photo © Hank O'Neal. #lgbthistory #lgbtherstory #lgbttheirstory #lgbtpride #queerhistorymatters #haveprideinhistory...
"WE ARE YOUR CHILDREN," Gay & Lesbian Freedom Day, San Francisco, June 25, 1978. Photo by William S. Tom, @onearchives. Post inspired by @siathisisacting, @kendricklamar, and the amazing @17days. In...
Westminster are celebrating LGBT History Month with a unique exhibition. Rare photos of Gay Pride marches in the 1970s, London’s first gay superclub Bang, and of legendary drag queen, singer and actor Divine are on display at Westminster City Council’s council offices in Victoria. The council’s LGBTQ staff network drew on material from the Bishopsgate Institute and Westminster Archives. The exhibition features the work of Gay News photographer Robert Workman, who famously captured imagery of the
"OUR LOVE IS NOT A CRIME," demonstrators protest the United States Supreme Court's decision in Bowers v. Hardwick (1986), which upheld as constitutional state laws criminalizing sodomy, c. July 1986....
‘Hush’ 'Hush is a collection of military images responding to the US policy of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” Infused with joy and playfulness, these works present a stark contrast to the silence and...
"PARENTS MARCH WITH THEIR GAY CHILDREN FOR HUMAN RIGHTS" -- "I AM PROUD OF MY LESBIAN DAUGHTERS," National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, Washington, D.C., October 14, 1979. Photo ©...
We’re celebrating historical LGBT figures from a diverse and often hidden history. Their stories, and those of our LGBT ancestors, deserve to be shared.
Organizations interested in LGBTQ+ history, such as The History Project, were established in numerous cities in the U.S. and worldwide. These
Peter Tatchell looks back at the pioneering Gay Liberation Front that helped create the modern LGBT+ community and changed society forever.
Com o progresso e a visibilidade que, finalmente, as pessoas LGBT têm tido na sociedade nos últimos anos é fácil esquecermo-nos que essas pessoas já antes existiam. Existiam e viviam. …
Marie Lyn Bernard, aka Riese, from Autostraddle has gathered an epic gallery of LGBT images from the late 19th century to the 1990s. "Honestly before tumblr it was difficult to find very much lesbian imagery at all online — it was always the same ten or twelve stock photos — let alone pictures of lesbians taken prior to 2000..." - she said. "So I started collecting them. I scoured tumblr, discovered regional library archives online and visited websites..." Riese added. "Unsatisfied with the racial diversity present in the imagery I found online, I began scanning books, screenshotting google books and even screenshotting documentaries. It took months, but every time I look at this post and the faces after faces of queer women throughout history... I get really excited!" And here's the gallery: 1850s Charlotte Cushman and Matilda Hays 1880s Sculptor Edmonia “Wildfire” Lewis Kitty Ely class of 1887 (left) and Helen Emory class of 1889, Mount Holyoke students 1890s Photo by Alice Austen Two women, 1899 1900s Young couple seated in garden 1900, Anna Moor and Elsie Dale 1910s Photo from silent film The Amazons (1917) Education reformer Elizabeth Irwin via “Gay & Lesbian Richmond” (Adele Clark, bottom center, lived with fellow suffragist Nora Houston “as companions” for years) Four couples of women pose for a photo, ca. 1910 1918 1920s Photo by Dorothy Schmitz via “Gay & Lesbian Atlanta” Chicago, 1921 Thelma Wood and Djuna Barnes 1930s American blues singer Gladys Bentley (1907 – 1960) poses with bandleader Willie Bryant (1908 – 1964) outside the Apollo Theater where posters advertise a performance by Bryant & his band, New York, New York, April 17, 1936. (Photo by Frank Driggs Collection/Getty IMages) 1930s Paris, photographed by Brassai. The photographs were part of a series for his 1933 book “Paris By Night,” which focused on working-class dance halls known as bals-musettes. 1940s Couple in 1946, photograph by Weegee Betty “Joe” Carstairs Mabel Hampton and Lillian Foster 1940s Wrens 1940’s “Louise” “Evelyn “Jackie” Bross (left) and Catherine Barscz (right) at the Racine Avenue Police Station, Chicago, June 5, 1943. They had been arrested for violating the cross-dressing ordinance. 1945, Male impersonators posing at Mona’s 1950s Estelle de Willoughby Ions with a YWCA Art Student, 1954 Keannie Sullivan & Tommy Vasu at Mona’s Bonita Jeffries, standing, with her daughter Ira and Ira’s girlfriend Snowbaby (17), celebrating Ira’s 16th birthday “at a nite club 1950’s gay and lesbian couples Founders of The Daughters of Bilitis with friends at Juanita’s in Sausalito. photo by Miss Cecil Davis Kathryn-Hulme-and-Marie-Louise-Habets 1960s via Wide Open Town: A History of Queer SF to 1965, by Nan Alamilla Boyd, Guests at the bar of the chez moune nightclub (the longest-running lesbian club in Paris) Barbara Gittings in picket line, photo by Kay Tobin Lahusen (1965) Two Friends At Home, photo by Diane Arbus, 1965 1967, photo by Joan C Meyers Lesbian wedding, 1968 1970s Donna Gottschalk holds poster “I am your worst fear I am your best fantasy” at Christopher Street Gay Liberation Day parade, photo by Diana Davies Jannette Louise Spires, Mary Alice Wesley & Brenda Ann Bush, Tampa, Florida Three members of Lavender Menace at the Second Congress to Unite Women, New York, 1970 May (May 1970), photo by Diana Davies 1970, Sylvia Rivera, photo by Kay Tobin Lahusen Gay Activists Alliance Softball Team, photo by Kay Tobin Lahusen Gay rights demonstration, Albany, New York, 1971, photo by Diana Davies Photo by Diana Davies 1971, Christopher Street Liberation Day Parade, photo by Diana Davies 1971, Albany Gay Rights Demonstration, photo by Diana Davies 1971, Gay rights demonstration, Albany, New York, photo by Diana Davies 1971 – Gay Pride Parade New York City 1971 – Manonla Evans and Donna-Burkett in Wisconsin 1972 – ALA Taskforce 1972 – Lesbian couple, Hollywood, photo by Anthony Friedkin 1972 – The Black Lesbian Caucus at NY Gay Pride 1972 – Lesbian couple, photo by Kay Tobin Lahusen 1973 – Gail and Kate Rebuilding Cathy’s VW Engine, Emeryville, CA, photo by Cathy Cade 1974 – Isis at the IHOP: Seated L to R: Suzi Ghezzi, Stella Bass, Jeanie Fienberg, Nydia Mata, Lauren Draper, Carol MacDonald and Ginger Bianco. Standing is Lolly Bienenfield Gente, A Women’s Celebration at the Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA 1975, photo by Cathy Cade Inez Garcia at San Francisco Freedom Day via “After Stonewall” documentary Women embracing at Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival, 1976, photo by Diana Davies 1977. Germantown couple on porch, photo by Kay Tobin Lahusen New York City Pride, 1977 Gay rights march in New York 1977. Photo by Marie Ueda from The Marie Ueda Collection The Atlanta Lesbian Feminist Alliance softball team Salsa Soul Sisters meeting, New York City Gay rights march in New York “Fat Chance” Dance Group, Berkeley, CA 1979, photo by Cathy Cade via “Gay by the Bay” 1980s Dykes on Bikes San Jose Lesbian March C1 Women’s Lib Rally, 1982 Audre Lorde & Angela Lesbian avengers, photo by Carolina Kroon Old Wives Tale Bookstore in San Francisco, California. Photo by Carol Seajay Sistah Boom Lesbian couple in the East Village, 1981, by Amy Arbus Outside the courtroom, the press interviews Marilyn Barnett, accompanied by her attorney, Joel Ladin (right), after a Superior Court judge ruled that she had no right to a $500,000 beach house she claimed was promised to her by her former lover, tennis star Billie Jean King. Los Angeles, California, December 18, 1981. 1983, Castro Street Fair Young Dykes Chicago The Common Lives team Kitty Tsui, photographed by Jill Posener for “On Our Backs” magazine The Indigo girls with Winona LaDuke 1988, Mariana Romo Carmona and June Chan, photo by Robert Giard 1990s ACT UP! Photo by Donna Binder ACT UP! Protest in Chicago, 1990 Photo by Saskia Scheffer 1993 – NYC Pride March Janet Gail and Carolina Kroon, photo by Carolina Kroon Photo by Laura Aguilar Servicemembers in Gay Pride Parade, photo by Cathy Cade 1993 Gay & Lesbian March on Washington Minnie Bruce Pratt & Leslie Feinberg, photo by Robert Giard 1993 Gay Pride in New York City, photo by Philip Jones Griffith 1993 – New York City Pride Van Dykes at the 1993 March in Washington Dorothy Allison with Alix Layman and Wolf-Michael, 1995, photo by Robert Giard Two Sandras, photo by Joyce Culver The lesbian tent at the Beijing International Women’s Conference Lesbian couple fighting for custody of their child, 1995 1995, Keisha and Lia, photo by Joyce Culver Greenwich Village, 1997 Dyke march, 1998 (via Autostraddle)
I found these photos of gay lovers and friends so touching, and I realized at that moment that the LGBTQ+ community has a history too.
Vintage photographs of gay and lesbian couples and their stories.
The Awesome Woman of the Day is Christine Jorgensen (1926 - 1989), the first person whose male-to-female sex reassignment surgery becam...
Out of print does not mean out of style.
The struggle for LGBTQ rights dates at least as far back as 1924 and accelerated in the wake of the 1969 Stonewall Uprising.
Exploring a newly-digitized interview with Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson about their organization Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR).
