Historical Photography

[historicalphoto]

Mary Nolan in Erinnerungen einer Nonne (Memoirs of a Nun), 1927

[alyssa-of-dorne]

Mlle. Fernande Barrey, legendary pinup model of the Belle Epoque era. A favorite model of Jean Agelou and others.

[abwwia]

Fernande Barrey (9 January 1893 in Saint-Valery-sur-Somme – 17 July 1960 in Paris) as a French artist model and painter. Via A

[kayflapper]

Louise Brooks in "Pandora's Box" 1929.

[carolathhabsburg]

Love

Early 1910s

[nevver]

Don’t, Michelle Thompson

[danismm]

Computer cafe, Japan 1978.

[the-sappho-of-lesbos]

Source : Nothing But The Girl ; The Blatant Lesbian Image ; A Portfolio and Exploration of Lesbian Erotic Photography - Edited by Susie Bright and Jill Posener

[lesboevils]

idk im really tired of 15-17 year olds who have never interacted with the gay community irl and spend too much time on tiktok trying to act like the authority on all that is lgbt+ 

[lesboevils]

  mean this in the kindest possible way. if you are too young and unsafe to go to your gay community center or pride here’s some ways you can connect to gay history.

the oral history project from act up

the lesbian herstory archives

the transgender archives of the university of victoria

the digital transgender archives

glbt historical society (digital)

lgbtq digital collaboratory

[lesboevils]

since it was suggested in the tags

anything that moves

the bisexual manifesto

[lesboevils]

the Samuel Proctor oral history project

a masterpost of lesile feinberg’s works by @genderoutlaws

more to come

[lesboevils]

the queer zine archive

the dyke march compilation 

paris is burning 

how to survive a plague

united in anger: a history of ACT UP

one archives

new york public library lgbtq archives

[lesboevils]

for today’s update:

screaming queens

a collection of audra lorde’s poetry

the arquives

dykes to watch out for

the bi woman’s quarterly (1/2)

[unexplained-events]

Girl buried with a crown of ceramic flowers. Patras, 300-400 B.C. 

Can be seen at the Museum of Patras (Greece)

[historicalphoto]

Two men making a death mask, New York, circa 1908.

[historicalphoto]

Turret lathe operator machining parts for transport planes at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas, USA. (1942)

[historicalphoto]

In the factory of Tatung China Ware (2007)

[historicalphoto]

An Asian American and an African American woman wear signs that indicate that they are on strike against Ottenheimer for poor treatment and unfair labor practices, December 1, 1966.

[historicalphoto]

A group of dressmakers on strike hold signs urging unionization and fair labor practices, 1958

[ladybegood]

Marilyn Monroe photographed by Bob Beerman on the set of Bus Stop (1956)

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[mcmxcviiikid]

Powerful statements like these, that juxtapose the condemnation of such a simple and pure thing as love with the honour and worship of violence and death, always hit me hard and stay with me for days

[aphony-cree]

This is the tombstone of Technical Sergeant Leonard Philip Matlovich, the first gay service member to intentionally out himself in order to fight the ban on gay people in the military. He hadn’t only served for Vietnam, he was a career Air Force member in good standing who would have liked to continue his career even though he knew coming out would most likely make that impossible. He’d also been an elder in the LDS church but was excommunicated

He was on the cover of Time magazine in 1975 which was the first time an openly gay person appeared on the cover of a U.S. magazine and had their name printed in that magazine

He was an advocate for AIDs/HIV patients from the start of the outbreak in the 70s. He contracted the virus in 1986 and died 2 years later

His name doesn’t appear on his tombstone because he wanted it to be a memorial for all gay veterans

[hickeywiththegoodhair]

here’s the King himself

and here’s his grave in its full glory, with the pink triangles and everything! the words over the dates of his birth and death are referencing the extermination of lgbt people during the holocaust and the HIV crisis, respectively.

[bettedavis111-deactivated201703]

Vivien Leigh getting into costume in St. Martin’s Lane (1938)