![]() But that hasn’t stopped historians from writing books like The Sewing Circle: Female Stars Who Loved Other Women, The Girls: Sappho Goes to Hollywood, Hollywood Lesbians, Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars. Well, I mean, we’re pretty sure they were busy - it’s hard to know for certain in most of these cases, ’cause even if one woman claimed it happened, it’s likely the other swore it didn’t. If you think celesbian gossip these days is crazy, you should’ve been alive like 100 years ago because DAMN these ladies were BUSY. The Autostraddle Encyclopedia of Lesbian Cinema.LGBTQ Television Guide: What To Watch Now.I guess I’ll never know for sure, but I still wish I could have known her. Also, she definitely fit the stereotype of being a tomboy, even considering she grew up on a farm. And I don’t really know a whole lot of straight teenage girls who would jokingly go out on dates with women, pretending to be a man. ![]() It just seemed like she looked a lot happier in that picture. One of those girls was not very happy when she discovered my great grandma was a woman.Įveryone else in my family considers it just jokes, but, eh, I don’t know. Apparently that was common enough to get a picture and a story about how she went out to dances as a boy, then danced with other girls. One of the few pictures of her from when she was younger is her as a teenager dressed in her father’s suit. I mean, I don’t know her so I could be wrong, but I think she was bi at least. Still, I have my assumptions based off a few photographs and stories in our family history. Seeing as she died before I was even 5 and the only time I met her, I was 3, I didn’t really know her. Some of the older pictures reminded me of a picture of my great grandmother. 150 Years of Lady-Loving-Ladies In The U.S. I’d also like to thank the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco for their permission using photos from their collection here. If you see anything here that is improperly credited or if you can identify the origin of any photos that weren’t credited at all, please email me and let me know! (riese autostraddle dot com). Unfortunately, because I’m an idiot, I erased the text-edit document where I was keeping track of photo credits. 4)I’ve tried to credit where I found these photos and who took them. It’s possible pics from Canada or The UK found their way in here, though. 3) I focused on America because doing the entire world is really hard/impossible. 2) Obviously it’s also difficult to find photos of women of color prior to the 1950’s, because America sucks. But because I found them on vintage queer tumblrs, etc., I went ahead and used them, but some of these photos may just be of cross-dressers or super-close friends. 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!įour quick disclaimers: 1) Obviously it’s impossible to verify the sexual orientation of some of the subjects of earlier photos I found on tumblr, the pre-1920s photos especially. ![]() Unsatisfied with the racial diversity present in the imagery I found online, I began scanning books, screenshotting google books and even screenshotting documentaries. ![]() I scoured tumblr, discovered regional library archives online and visited websites like fuck yeah queer vintage, the new york public library digital archives, out history, and know homo. 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. I wanted to see an evolution of our community, how we’d grown and changed over the years - and not just in a montage of famous out actresses and models, but pictures of actual people, pictures of women who were active in the community - regular human beings, writers and social activists. I was looking for words but eventually, also, for pictures. ![]() My girlfriend was not a big fan of the stacks of books at the foot of the bed. I really threw myself into Herstory Month, in June, eating every accessible herstory archive on the internet and spending hours in the library, accumulating massive stacks of borrowed books which I stored at the foot of my bed.
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