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Music (Sketch)

1907

Henri Matisse

#1907 #1900s #Henri Matisse #art #color #kissing #wlw #queer #queer history #LGBT history #LGBT #LGBTQ

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Early 1970s

#1970s #70s #vintage #vintage women #women #color #aesthetic #~

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It was a night when I would have liked you to be here. There are practically no flowers now, and the garden is dark green. One gets an impression of long green vistas and statues, all dominated by the pink tower.

Vita Sackville-West, in a letter to Violet Trefusis, wr. c. July 1942

#1942 #40s #Vita Sackville West #Violet Trefusis #text #wlw #couple #queer #queer history #LGBT history #LGBT #LGBTQ

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Source : Cats (and their Dykes) an anthology - edited by Irene Reti and Shoney Sien

#1991 #90s #vintage #black and white #illustration #art #comics #literature #dyke #lesbian #lesbians #lgbtq #Irene Reti #Shoney Sien

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Jeanne Mammen (1890–1976)

Jealousy, 1930-32

40.5 x 34.5 cm

color lithograph on fine laid paper

#30s #Jeanne Mammen #vintage #queer #lesbians #black and white #art #illustration

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Skate Kitchen (2018) dir. Crystal Moselle

#2018 #2010s #Skate Kitchen #film #fiction #queer fiction #queer actors #skateboarding #color

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Lesbian couple in Civic Center, June 24, 1979

from the Joe Altman Photographs of the San Francisco Gay Freed Day Parades

#1979 #70s #vintage #women #vintage women #vintage couple #couple #black and white #lesbians #queer #LGBT #LGBTQ #San Francisco #California

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Rolling Stone (November 11, 1982)

#1982 #1980s #80s #Rolling Stone #literature #vintage #vintage women #black and white #couple #vintage couple #women #lesbian #lesbians #lesbianism #LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBT History #queer #queer history

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Queen Latifah in Bessie (2015)

#2015 #2010s #Queen Latifah #actor #queer actors #Bessie #film #fiction #queer fiction #color #woc #LGBT #LGBTQ

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#1942 #1940s #40s #vintage #woman #vintage woman #woc #labor #black and white

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The Children’s Hour (1961) dir. William Wyler

#1961 #1960s #60s #The Children's Hour #film #fiction #queer fiction #black and white #Shirley MacLaine #Audrey Hepburn #actor #gif

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i'm currently researching butch identity in mid-century america! here's a fact about post-WWII LGBT communities in port cities that blew my mind today. from lillian faderman's odd girls and twilight lovers: a history of lesbian life in 20th century america

#40s #90s #Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers #Boots of Leather Slippers of Gold #literature #Lillian Faderman #Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy #Madeline Davis #black and white #lesbianism #lesbians

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Daily Mirror, England, April 8, 1920

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some quality advice from bette davis

#1939 #30s #black and white #vintage #Bette Davis #Geraldine Fitzgerald #actor #Dark Victory #film #fiction #semantic change

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Rolling Stone (November 11, 1982)

#1982 #1980s #80s #Rolling Stone #Rolling Stone Magazine #black and white #America #United States #gay #lesbian #women #vintage #literature #lgbt #lgbtq #queer #lgbt history #queer history

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The artist wrote of this work: 'the idea of the picture came from a visit to the flat of two lesbians, who lived in a rather dreary part of South London. The general atmosphere affected me; the feeling of loneliness of these two in rather squalid surroundings, rather fascinated me.'

The Friends by Carel Weight, oil paint on canvas, 1968

#1968 #1960s #60s #Carel Weight #color #art #vintage #women #affection #lesbians #couple #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbt history #queer #queer history

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Source details and larger version.

They’ve had many lives and many ages: cats I’ve met in my time travels.

#80s #vintage #woman #vintage woman #yearbook #black and white #animals #Indiana #Indiana University