#lesbian elder

[that-butch-archivist]

A still from Nitrate Kisses, produced by Barbara Hammer

source: The Wild Good: Lesbian Photographs & Writings on Love, edited by Beatrix Gates

[mx-montero]

I’m finally seeing some butch Wolverine art on screen but some of you guys aren’t going butch enough. I need butch Logan to be a whiskey-swiggin’, cigar-chewin’, card-carryin’, he/him-havin’, capital “B” Butch lesbian. Logan “The X-Man” Wolverine has an adamantium strap that makes you ugly cry while he blows cigar smoke in your face. That is the butch Wolverine we deserve.

[butch-pilot]

I love elder butches, not only are they very important to the community, but they give amazing advice and show young butches like me that we will grow old and still be handsome and loved, and that butch only gets better with age

[knighthelm]

Demiah + her beautiful wife Aranea + Azura's star cameo

I finished Skyrim's main quest. They get to live happily ever after!

[cemeterygrace]

i might not know a lot, but by god am i gonna be a queer elder. the world is doing it’s damndest to try and kill me before i get there, but i am going to make it. i will be queer in my 60’s, 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s and i will not be invisible.

[peony-plum]

Dragonborn: I’ll braid your hair 💕

[cowboyjen68]

The day before Christmas Eve, with the help of many, I met a new lesbian friend off of TikTok. She needed a new car battery and I know how to change a battery and found out she was only an hour away! Got to meet an elder and break out my tools and get her some much needed supplies! My community, on and off line, is nothing short of incredible. New battery installation complete!!

[that-butch-archivist]

"Ruth Ellis, Golden Threads Celebration 1995," from the documentary Golden Threads

source: The Wild Good: Lesbian Photographs & Writings on Love, edited by Beatrix Gates

[yourdailyqueer]

Wynne Gibson (deceased)

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Lesbian

DOB: 3 July 1898 

RIP: 15 May 1987

Ethnicity: White - American

Occupation: Actress

Note: Long-time companion of Beverly Roberts

[lux1fer]

transfiguration

[sublimesister]

[skyrimlesbians]

when girls on hinge say ‘you’re so pretty’ or ‘wyd’ but my gorgeous vampire wife alva is constantly saying ‘we’re the only people in skyrim worth loving’

[rookflower]

I’m kind of scared to call out Crowfeather again just in case he turns my fandom lesbian straight. He’s got too much power. We fucking lost man

the implications of crowfeather repeatedly rewriting the series he's in to own lesbians is funny but im still on the lesbian w comphet leafpool train at least. lesbianism can prevail anywhere regardless. and on that personally i believe that lesbian or not, every girl that falls for crowfeather doesn't really like crowfeather himself but rather an idealised version of him in their head that can present them with something else they want (an escape from the clans, a dedicated partner who loves them, someone they can relate to and confide in). he just got lucky enough to do that to four different women. he isnt a lady magnet for who he is but his shallow dark and brooding aura is just really easy to project shit onto and not think about when in actuality all it hides is a fairly boring and genuinely unpleasant guy

[thenatureofbutch]

And THIS is why it is so special to be in a time where we can listen to our elders speak openly. So we better take advantage and LISTEN.

Sometimes I get comments or asks or whatever from the identity police about who can be called butch.

Well, dear sweets, firstly get to know your history, watch this video to the end, respect your elders and then digest the fact that nature is as it does. So, you staring at a natural truth, and telling it, that it's wrong, only shows something unnatural of you- work on it my babycakes.

You can also read more of what I personally (so not those featured in the above video) have to rant say if you feel so inclined...

I myself remember how butchness was well known as a spectrum of how masculinity looked on those who were not cis men. I remember how that spectrum included butches who would further their masculinity/Adorn their masculinity with hormones/surger(ies), I remember how butcheness extended to those who were queer but not lesbian, and their role within the butch world was never questioned or even pondered at. Because to be seen in the world as butch, is a very specific thing, with specific ostrasisations, and specific ways to understand what gender is and specific ways of being made to feel ugly for not adhering to the way the west pictures women. To be butch is a very specific feeling starting in our earliest memories for most of us we have that feeling before we even develop sexual desire, because its entirely its own thing, and it creates a very specific bond. A bond of butchhood.

I was very young when witnessing just a little of this time period, the solidarity within it still was strong enough to hit me and captivate me. It's been sad to see just how much of that has changed into a relentless need for over specification, dissecting the community left right and centre, policing eachother. Do we not remember the enchanted connection of anti police anti state moral with queerness? Please let us do better, please let us help one another do better.

[cowgirls-blues]

One of them knows how to install a doorknob.

[that-butch-archivist]

"Joan Nestle and Mabel Hampton" by Morgan Gwenwald

source: The Wild Good: Lesbian Photographs & Writings on Love, edited by Beatrix Gates