[LGBTQ] [Lesbian] Archive of 29 photographs, ca. 1930s–1960s, documents intimate companionship, romantic affection, and gender nonconformity among women in mid-twentieth-century America during decades marked by censorship, employment discrimination, and criminalization of homosexual conduct. The images preserve visual evidence of lesbian self-fashioning and relational life prior to organized lesbian liberation, supporting.....
[LGBTQ] [Cross-Dressing] Turn-of-the-century photography of queer gender expression and theatrical cross-dressing during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Produced in the 1890s through the early 1900s, the photographs capture women presenting in masculine attire and gender-bending costume roles. The material provides visual evidence of gender nonconformance and coded queer.....
Boston lesbian and gay pride photo negative slides documenting public queer mobilization in Boston in 1980. The sequence shows how Boston Pride was staged in public space: speeches from a podium, crowds gathered in the park, identifiable groups under banners, and marchers moving into the street. Compiled by an attendee.....
[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.....
[LGBTQ] Nine issues of The Ladder, widely recognized as the first nationally distributed lesbian publication in the United States, documenting the evolution of American lesbian print culture during the homophile movement. Across these issues, The Ladder documents the evolution of lesbian self-understanding and community formation from the early 1960s through.....
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.....
[LGBTQ] Highsmith, Patricia, writing under the pen name Claire Morgan, The Price of Salt stands as one of the most influential early works of LGBTQ literature and lesbian pulp fiction, introducing a same sex love story that concluded without the moral punishment or tragic ending that dominated earlier depictions of.....
[LGBT] Lesbian and gender-nonconforming photo archive documenting flirtation, staged romance, and cross-dressed performance from the early twentieth century through 1946, preserving direct visual evidence of female same-sex intimacy and gender play during a period when such relationships were socially stigmatized and seldom recorded with this degree of ease before the.....
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.....
[LGBTQ+][Lesbian] Lesbian couples vernacular photographs with owner inscriptions confirming queer relationship, ca. 1946 to 1950, document intimate same sex relationships between women during a period in the United States when homosexuality remained criminalized, socially stigmatized, and rarely recorded in explicit visual form. The photographs provide direct evidence of lesbian partnership.....
Mid twentieth century photographs documenting expressions of intimacy and companionship between women during decades when lesbian relationships were widely stigmatized and rarely documented in public records. The images preserve visual evidence of everyday social and romantic interaction between women during the Cold War era, a period when same sex relationships.....
[LGBTQ][Lesbian Activism][Intersectional Feminism] Lesbian feminist print materials archive, 1969–1977, chronicling lesbian writing, political organizing, and identity within the women’s liberation and lesbian feminist movements. This grouping brings together literary, musical, and activist texts produced during the height of the second wave feminism movement and the emergence of lesbian feminist institutions.....
Armstrong Jr., Toni L. (ed.). Hot Wire: The Journal of Women’s Music and Culture (1988–1994) documents lesbian feminist cultural production through coverage of music, performance, publishing, and community organizing during the late twentieth century. Produced in Chicago, the periodical established a platform for lesbian artists, activists, and writers at a......
Lesbian couple photo album, 1981, documenting intimate interaction, self-presentation, and identity expression between two women in a private photographic setting. The album records a sustained sequence of posed and candid moments, providing visual evidence of same-sex affection and partnership during a period when such relationships were often constrained in public.....
Various editors, The Ladder, 1965–1972, documenting lesbian community formation, identity discourse, and early LGBTQ+ print culture in the United States. The material operates in Cultural/Representational Mode, illustrating how lesbian identity, social concerns, and community networks were articulated through a nationally distributed publication at a time when such visibility remained limited.....
The Second Wave issues from 1972 through 1976 bring together feminist literary publishing, movement journalism, and political argument at a moment when U.S. feminist discourse surrounding rape, abortion, battered women, childcare, prison, and international women’s struggles were of urgent and expanding concern within the women’s liberation movement. The four issues.....
Bechdel, Alison. Dykes to Watch Out For (1986–1995) establishes one of the most sustained visual records of lesbian life, feminist politics, and queer community formation in late twentieth-century America. First collected in book form in 1986, the series situates its characters within the social and political conditions of the Reagan.....
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 culture book archive, 1961 to 1967, gathers five mass-market paperbacks that show how lesbian life entered mainstream American print through pulp publishing, sexology, journalism, and case-study literature. The books belong to LGBTQ+ pulp and women’s history, illustrating how lesbian identity was alternately pathologized, sensationalized, catalogued, and reported for a......
Journal of Lesbian Studies, published between 1997 and 2000, documents the institutionalization of lesbian studies and queer feminist scholarship within late twentieth-century academic publishing. Founded in 1997, the journal created an interdisciplinary forum examining lesbian history, identity, sexuality, politics, health, media representation, literature, labor, geography, and cultural production while maintaining.....
[LGBTQ] De Acosta, Mercedes. Sandro Botticelli. New York: Moffat, Yard and Company 1923. Measures 8.5" x 5.5," contains 49 pages. A play about Botticelli and Simonetta by the renowned lesbian author. De Acosta lived openly as a lesbian throughout her entire life, engaging in numerous high-profile relationships with Hollywood stars.....
[LGBTQ] Lesbian Voices: Feminist Lesbian Quarterly Magazine. Archive of 2 Magazines. San Jose: Jonnik Enterprises, 1975-80. Illustrated pictorial wrappers. Each magazine measures 6.75" x 8.5", and are around 40 pages total. This small archive includes: Vol. 1, Iss. 4 (1975), and Vol. 3, No. 4 (1980). Lesbian Voices was published.....
[LGBTQ] Lesbian Minister Photo Archive of 4 Original Press Photographs. Included in this archive is one sepia-toned press photograph of lesbian minister, The Rev. Dr. Rose Mary Denman, and two original black and white silver gelatin press photographs of ordained lesbian minister, The Rev. Dr. Jane Spahr. Three measure 11".....
[LGBTQ] [Feminism] Archive of three issues of lesbian-feminist journal So's Your Old Lady: A Lesbian/Feminist Journal. Minneapolis: Lesbian Resource Center, 1974-1978. So’s Your Old Lady provided a space for radical feminist discourse, creative writing, and political commentary in the 1970s. The publications include poetry, essays, plays, and artwork contributed by.....
