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had an idea for a sign i could make for pride but thought attempting to organize a lesbian section for a parade would be hell so i took it to photo shop instead. happy lesbian visibility day! to my fellow lesbians: be proud of who you are. there is nothing bad or evil about being a lesbian, love your lesbianism, love yourself🧡🤍🩷

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

#lesbian #art #books/articles/text

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

#lesbian #art #books/articles/text

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a list of (some of) the things we owe to lesbians

the stonewall uprising (x)

pride marches (x)

homosexuality being removed from the dsm (x)

paving the way for the legalization of cross dressing/influencing gnc women’s fashion (x) (x) (x)

aids organizing and care (x) (x) (x)

fighting to include black women and lesbians into feminism/women’s rights movements (x) (x) (x)

black history month in the uk (x)

legalization of gay marriage in the usa (x) (x)

physically protecting the community (from storme delarverie who patrolled gay neighbourhoods to the butches protecting drag story time)

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had an idea for a sign i could make for pride but thought attempting to organize a lesbian section for a parade would be hell so i took it to photo shop instead. happy lesbian visibility day! to my fellow lesbians: be proud of who you are. there is nothing bad or evil about being a lesbian, love your lesbianism, love yourself🧡🤍🩷

#lesbian #misc #lesbian pride #lesbianism #lesbian positivity #lesbian visibility day #lesbian visibility week #graphic design #two different versions cause i didn't know what looked better

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Source: This Narrow Place - Sylvia Townsend Warner and Valentine Ackland: Life, Letters and Politics, 1930 - 1951. By Wendy Mulford

#lesbian #gnc #valentine ackland

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I am a lesbian and I am beautiful

Christopher Street Gay Liberation Day, New York City, June 28th, 1970

#lesbian #photography #lgbtq #lgbt history #lesbian history #lesbian pride #lesbian positivity #gay pride #lesbian visibility week #lesbian visibility day

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I wish stuff like dental dams and gloves weren’t so like stigmatised in the lesbian community and were talked about more and given more grace to be seen as romantic or sensual

#lesbian #sapphic #safe sapphic sex

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Blow the whistle on workplace discrimination

Description from JSTOR:

Reminiscent of and repurposing "Men At Work" construction signs, this sticker uses the mustard yellow background, black border, and bold lettering to create a new eye-catching sign. Using the term "butch," this sign announces someone who identifies as lesbian employed at a workplace. However, what makes this sticker important is the invitation to blow the whistle on workplace discrimination. Members of the LGBTQ+ community have a history of being mistreated in workplace environments. Founded in 1973, Lambda Legal, a nonprofit organization that provides legal counsel and resources for members of the LGBTQ+ community, has worked since then to achieve "full recognition of the civil rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender people and everyone living with HIV through impact litigation, education, and public policy work" (lambdalegal.org/about-us). The Lambda Legal logo is visible at the bottom of the sticker. Additional text includes: Blow the whistle on workplace discrimination.

Lambda Legal -- Butch At Work. 2019. Courtesy of the Richard F. Brush Art Gallery.

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many of whats listed here gets credited to bi women and gay men or is never mentioned that it was lesbians that did it, all while lesbians get treated as if we're monsters by the rest of the community. it's important to recognize lesbian erasure and how its driven by lesbophobia and to call it out. lesbians were and still are a vital part of the movement, even when others try to frame us as not.

a list of (some of) the things we owe to lesbians

the stonewall uprising (x)

pride marches (x)

homosexuality being removed from the dsm (x)

paving the way for the legalization of cross dressing/influencing gnc women’s fashion (x) (x) (x)

aids organizing and care (x) (x) (x)

fighting to include black women and lesbians into feminism/women’s rights movements (x) (x) (x)

black history month in the uk (x)

legalization of gay marriage in the usa (x) (x)

physically protecting the community (from storme delarverie who patrolled gay neighbourhoods to the butches protecting drag story time)

#lesbian #lesbian erasure

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a list of (some of) the things we owe to lesbians

the stonewall uprising (x)

pride marches (x)

homosexuality being removed from the dsm (x)

paving the way for the legalization of cross dressing/influencing gnc women’s fashion (x) (x) (x)

aids organizing and care (x) (x) (x)

fighting to include black women and lesbians into feminism/women’s rights movements (x) (x) (x)

black history month in the uk (x)

legalization of gay marriage in the usa (x) (x)

physically protecting the community (from storme delarverie who patrolled gay neighbourhoods to the butches protecting drag story time)

#this lvd remember that lesbians are why we have so many of the things we have #lesbian #lgbt history #lesbian pride #lgbtq #queer history #lesbianism #lesbian positivity #lesbians in action #pride #lesbian erasure #lesbian visibility week #lesbian visibility day #wlw #sapphic #lgbt education

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pretty bedbound today after a flare up, but made this cute lil thing i’m thinking of making merch of if anyone would be interested?

#lesbian #art

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from the detroit gay liberator vol. 1 no. 6, december 1970

#lesbian #misc

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Source: The Book Of Uncommon Women; An Uncommon Legacy Foundation ( 1994)

#lesbian #activists

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Lesbian safe sex kit, from New Zealand AIDS Foundation, early 2000s, via Museum of New Zealand

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Lesbian safe sex kit, from New Zealand AIDS Foundation, early 2000s, via Museum of New Zealand

#lesbian #sapphic #safe sapphic sex #misc #lgbt history #lgbt education #lesbianism #wlw

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Photos of Nancy Valverde, a Chicana gender nonconforming lesbian who was routinely arrested for violating L.A.’s cross-dressing ban throughout the 50s and has been credited as helping overturn the ban. Valverde died at the age of 92 in March of 2024.

#nancy valverde #lesbian #people #gnc #activists