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1991

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Kathy Lee Prochazka, 1989

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A lesbian couple briefly shown in the film Wings (1927)

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Currently reading this book and I could not love it more.

Look at that gorgeous woman, and at Eleanor adoring her!!

::swoon::

My only complaint is that the book keeps referring to her as queer, and having queer relationships. It’s ok to say lesbian. And don’t @ me with them maybe not identifying as lesbian because they sure didn’t identify as queer.

Sarah Miller is a fantastic writer and I recommend her other YA biographies, especially Daisy and Violet Hilton and the Dionne Quintuplets.

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Gloria Swanson in Sunset Blvd. (1950) dir. Billy Wilder

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What I saw there released tears I'd held back for years: strong, burly women, wearing ties and suit coats. Their hair was slicked back in perfect DAs. They were the handsomest women I'd ever seen.

- Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues, p. 28

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Vote. [League of Women Voters poster by Louis Bonhajo, 1920]

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I needed a cathartic cry this morning and this did it. This is our vice president — and soon, with your vote, our President — giving the order as attorney general of California to legalize gay marriage there. The good people on the front lines eleven years ago are rising to the top 😭

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Mick Jagger and Bette Midler pose in the back of a limo, photo by Greg Gorman, Manhattan, 1983.

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Sal Mineo in the Phillips Productions/Joseph Cates neo-noir thriller Who Killed Teddy Bear?, 1965.

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Early Lesbian Film: Midwife to the Upper Class (1902), Dir. Alice Guy

Midwife to the Upper Class is a 1902 film directed by Alice Guy. It is a three-character adaptation of the subject of her first film, The Cabbage Fairy (1896). A young peasant couple approaches the counter of a store where children are being sold. The saleswoman shows them various "items," but none of them seem to satisfy them. The shopkeeper then leads the couple to the storeroom—a garden overflowing with cabbages. She shows them different babies, which she extracts directly from the vegetables. After finding the baby that suits them, the young newlyweds settle the bill and leave. The performers in this film are all women: Yvonne and Germaine Serand play the roles of the saleswoman and the young bride. The success of the original Cabbage Fairy relied on a single scene: a fairy extracting real babies from giant theater cabbages. However, a new storyline idea tarnishes the contemporary view of the film by reflecting the deep-rooted racism of that era: the introduction of a (fake) black baby, which is horrifyingly rejected by the prospective parents. The spontaneous rejection portrayed is difficult to watch in a film that already depicts the unsettling fantasy of being able to choose one's future child, adding a store and a couple with their savings pulled from a sock to the original enchanting scene.

Source: Iconauta - YT

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Early Lesbian Film: Pierrette's Escapades (1900), Dir. Alice Guy

Pierrette's Escapades, a short film by French cinema pioneer Alice Guy, puts a lesbian twist on a typical Commedia Dell'arte plot: Pierrette attempts to court Columbina, but is rejected. Then Columbina dances with her lover, Arlequina, and kisses her.

The film was colored by hand on the nitrate stock. Unfortunately, the stock is damaged due to deterioration over time.

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Collier Schorr, Girlfriends Bathing, Durlandgen, 1995. © Collier Schorr. Image courtesy of 303 Gallery, New York.

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we really devolved as a society when we stopped using fully painted pictures on romance novels and started using cheap photoshop instead 

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