Mid twentieth century photographs of women in intimate social settings documenting expressions of same sex affection during a period when lesbian relationships were widely stigmatized and frequently concealed from public view. The images provide visual evidence of everyday emotional and social life among women whose relationships existed largely outside official.....
Unidentified photographers. Lesbian photograph archive, 1983–1990, documents everyday social life, relationships, and community formation among women in late twentieth-century LGBTQ+ contexts, primarily in Long Beach, California. The material provides primary visual evidence of sapphic identity, friendship networks, and informal expressions of intimacy during a period of increasing visibility following the.....
Lesbian friendship group depicted in vernacular photographs dating from the 1940s documents relationships and social life among a circle of women traveling through Arizona and California during the mid twentieth century. Photographs of queer women from this period remain comparatively uncommon because same sex relationships were widely stigmatized and often.....
Lesbian couples depicted in a group of vernacular photographs dating from the 1930s through the 1960s document intimate relationships between women during a period when homosexuality was widely stigmatized and frequently criminalized in many countries. Visual evidence of same sex relationships from the early and mid twentieth century remains comparatively.....
[LGBT] Lesbian photo archive documenting women’s intimate vernacular photography from the 1930s through the late 1940s, preserving sustained visual evidence of female same sex affection in everyday settings during a period when such relationships were seldom named openly and remained subject to social and legal constraint. A collection of personal.....
Vadim, Roger, Et mourir de plaisir (Le sang et la rose) [Blood and Roses], 1960, documenting early cinematic representation of lesbian desire within European gothic film. The material reflects LGBTQ cultural expression in mid-twentieth-century cinema, illustrating how same-sex intimacy between women was visualized through genre conventions of horror and romance.....
[LGBTQ][Feminist] Archive of three issues of Boston-based LGBTQ feminist newspaper The Gay Weekly, 1976. Three issues, newsprint, saddle-stapled. Illustrated with halftone photography, original artwork, and period advertisements. All issues published in Boston and printed by the Gay Community News Collective. A scarce trio of issues from The Gay Weekly, a......
