#Donna Gottschalk

[dyke-husband]

I am your worst fear//I am your best fantasy. After Donna Gottschalk.

Letterpress on latex gloves, stymie 30 point medium and bold.

[murakamijeva-muza]

Here is a photo of Donna Gottschalk at the Christopher Street Gay Liberation Day rally in 1970. Photo by Diana Davis.

Happy Women's Day!

“We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.” ― Margaret Atwood

[prairiedeath]

Donna Gottschalk, lesbian, photojournalist, self portrait in Maine, 1976

[holdoncallfailed]

donna gottschalk, sisterhood feels good, 1971. offset lithograph poster. (via)

[whatevergreen]

Sisterhood Feels Good - Donna Gottschalk, New York City, 1971

Gottschalk was an early member of the Gay Liberation Front in the late 1960s. The image for this poster was taken from her 1970 photograph "Sleepers, Limerick, Pennsylvania"

[darlingillustrations]

PRIDE is timeless

sources for photographs:

Bluebirds - Kitty Ely class of 1887 (left) and Helen Emory class of 1889, Mount Holyoke students, via vintagephoto.livejournal.com. Source for image.

Cats - Nusch Éluard and Sonia Mossé. Paris. 1935 Photographer: Man Ray. Source for image.

Chipmunks - Source for image.

Deer - Source for image.

Dogs - Source for image.

Foxes, dancing - Photograph by Thurston Hopkins, Tango in the East End, London, 1954. Source for image.

Foxes, dapper - Source for image.

Frogs - Photograph from a collection called “Hidden in the Open,” curated by Trent Kelley. Source for image.

Giraffes - “Tough Threads.” Ken Russell photographed Teddy Girls in London -1950s. Source for image.

Hedgehogs - Chuck Rowland & Harry Hay (Apr. 7, 1912 – Oct. 24, 2002), 1983. © Stephen Stewart, via @onearchives. Harry Hay was the visionary behind the queer liberation movement in the U.S. With his background in leftist politics, Hay merged the revolutionary idea of homosexuals as an “oppressed cultural minority” with the fundamentals of organizing. (verbiage by lgbt_history… read more here).

Lions - I found this image on the internet in 2017 and have not been able to relocate it since.

Octopus - Circa 1970 by Donna Gottschalk. Source for image.

Otters - Source for image.

Polar Bears - Source for image.

Rabbits, mm - Source for image.

Rabbits, ww - Source for image.

Raccoons - Photographed by Kay Tobin, circa 1977. Source for image.

Red Pandas - Mariana Romo Carmona and June Chan (b. June 6, 1956), New York City, 1988. Photo © Robert Giard Foundation. (read more about these activists here)

Seagulls - Source for image.

Skunks - Photograph from the etsy shop The Vintage Image Boutique.

Sloths - Castro Street Fair, San Francisco, California, August 17, 1980. Photo © Paul Fusco. (read more about this street fair here)

Snow Leopards - Gay Pride Day, NYC 1980 / © Stanley Stellar.

The Affectionate Animal series is a project I have worked on for years, illustrating vintage photographs of queer couples. All paintings are by me, Erin Darling. Here is a link to the series on my site.

[somekindlove]

: Donna Gottschalk

[soracities]

(excerpt) Milan Kundera, The Unberable Lightness of Being Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, "The Bed, detail" (1893) & Donna Gottschalk, "Sleepers, detail" (1970) (excerpt) John Berger, From A to X

[notbeingnoticed]

Donna Gottschalk

[lesbianlenses]

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 via NYPL

[l-o-t-m]

Diana Davies. Donna Gottschalk, with a «I am your worst fear» poster, at Christopher Street Gay Liberation Day parade in New York, 1970.

[tomafome]

Donna Gottschalk, Sisterhood Feels Good, 1971 (New York: Times Change Press, Offset lithograph poster on yellow paper, 38 x 56 cm)

[cosmicanger]

DONNA GOTTSCHALK

Sisterhood Feels Good.

Offset lithograph poster, 395x555 mm, 15 1/2x21 7/8 inches. Times Change Press, New York. 1971.

[365daysoflesbians]

“Helaine and her girlfriend. Provincetown, Massachusetts. 1974″ Photographed by lesbian activist Donna Gottschalk.