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“This film is dedicated to all the Black people who have been beaten and killed just for being Black, and to countless young Ethiopians, who were killed for daring to bring sincere change in Ethiopia.”

Teza (2008), Haile Gerima

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Marie Matiko in The Art of War (2000)

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(The Case of the Bloody Iris, 1972, Giuliano Carnimeo)

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Katharina Von Dombrowski (1881-1968), ‘Die Busenfreundinnen’, “Fliegende Blätter”, #3959, 1921 Source

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beauty @ adeam fw19

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Rufino Tamayo (Mexican, 1899-1991)

Woman with watermelon, 1939

Oil on canvas

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Kar-Wai Wong, “Days of Being Wild”. 1990.

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homosexuales detenidos en una comisaría, 1935, México - Agustín Víctor Casasola

gay men detained at a police station, 1935, Mexico

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Up until 1976, when the Palace of Lecumberri in Mexico City stopped operating as a penitentiary, gay men were imprisoned in the prison ward J, jota, hence joto(s) becoming one of the most common homophobic slurs in Mexico.

From the Casasola Archive Collection:

Incarcerated homosexuals in the patios of Lecumberri Prison, 1930

Homosexuals walking in the patios of Lecumberri Prison, 1930

Incarcerated homosexuals at the entrance of a prison, 1930

Man with makeup poses standing up inside a penitentiary, 1938

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Robert van der Hilst, Cuba 1987

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Liya Kebede photographed by Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott for Vogue UK March 2019. Styled by Benjamin Bruno. Makeup by Peter Philips. Hair by Paul Hanlon.