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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

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Christopher Street Gay Liberation Day, New York City, June 28, 1970, by Nancy Tucker, via LHA

#gay #photography #lgbtq #lgbt history #gay pride #love the colours here

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Buttons from the University of Michigan’s Labadie Collection. via JSTOR.

#lesbian #gay #misc #lgbtq #lgbt history #lesbian pride #gay pride #lesbian positivity #gay positivity #wlw #mlm

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3 - 5 - 7 - 9 lesbians are mighty fine

The Buffalo Radical Lesbians at Christopher Street Gay Liberation Day, New York City, June 27th, 1971, by Michael Ochs

#lesbian #photography #lgbtq #lgbt history #lesbian history #lesbian pride #gay pride #lesbian positivity

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Gay TV Show Firsts

On February 9th, 1971 the first explicitly gay character “Steve” appeared on television in season 1 episode 5 “Judging Books by Covers” of the American sitcom All in the Family. This episode made its mark by portraying the opposite of the flamboyant stereotype of gay men (that the main character and best friend of Steve held to believe) by representing a gay man who was the complete opposite: masculine, tough, and a former football player. These attributes lead president at the time Richard Nixon to call out the show for “glorifying homosexuality”. Prior to this there were some coded and repressed gay and lesbian characters, but it was not as clear as to them being homosexual as it was on All in the Family.

The first same sex kiss ever on television was in Australian soap opera The Box in the first episode which premiered on February 11, 1974. The character Vicki Stafford (right) is canonically bisexual.

The American sitcom Hot l Baltimore which ran on ABC for one season in 1975, beginning January 24th, featured tv’s first gay couple, they were also main characters. There was much controversy for this at the time and the couple was not allowed to show any physical intimacy. There was also a viewer discretion warning at the beginning of each episode to warn for “mature themes”.

On February 7th, 1991 legal drama L.A. Law featured the first same sex kiss on American network television in the episode “He’s a Crowd”.

Controversy and support erupted and some advertisers removed their advertisements from the broadcast, while GLAAD praised the episode. One of the actresses reported that the kiss was a ratings ploy with no intention to explore a lesbian relationship. Both characters ended up with men.

This episode gave birth to the TV trope “lesbian kiss episode”, where a typically one off episode character that was a lesbian or bisexual woman would kiss a heterosexual female main character, played for shocks, laughs and ratings boots and is never mentioned again or explored further.

On October 20th of that same year Fox’s sitcom Roc featured the first gay wedding in season 1 episode 8 titled “Can’t Help Loving That Man”.

Writer of the episode Jeffrey Duteil said the audience was overwhelmingly supportive and that the network “couldn’t be more pleased” with how it turned out.

The first gay sex scene on television was a bit hard to confirm but I believe it to be from the original UK Queer as Folk which began airing February 23rd, 1999 and ran till February 22nd, 2000.

The US remake of the show which ran from December 3rd, 2000 - August 2nd 2005 was the first American show to feature gay sex. Both shows were very groundbreaking for their explicit portrayal of it.

#lesbian history #gay history #lgbtq #lgbt history #queer #all in the family #the box #hot l baltimore #l.a law #roc #queer as folk #tv/mov/docs #semi long post

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Source: Stolen Glances; Lesbians Take Photographs - Edited by Tessa Boffin and Jean Fraser

#photography

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#lesbian #books/articles/text