lgbtqia+ history

✨️my personal collection for transgender and queer knowledge✨️

[queermasculine]

"Black lesbian mother and son at SF Gay Pride, San Francisco", H. Lenn Keller photography, 1984

[elierlick]

I love that topless protesting is becoming something of a trans tradition in the UK. If the protesters are arrested, the state must admit they're women. If they aren't, it shows the glaring contradictions of labeling trans women as "male." It helps their cause either way. We don't see this nearly enough of this in the US (photo by Rusty Elias, St. Peter's Square, Manchester, May 31st, 2025)

[queerworldhistory]

Christine Jorgensen

Christine Jorgensen Hour Magazine Interview

This was the date in 1953 when Christine Jorgensen stepped her stylishly dressed self off an SAS plane from Denmark and ushered in the mod

[disease]

"TWO WOMEN IN LOVE" JOHN GUTMANN // 1937 [gelatin silver print | 19.6 × 19.7 cm.]

[homoidiotic]

Crowds outside the Civic Center during the International Lesbian & Gay Freedom Day Parade in San Francisco on (June 24, 1984) Bromberger Hoover Photography

[jude-us]

I’m not exaggerating when I say this post changed my life. Seeing this as a terrified self hating 17 year old was like finding a fresh water lake in the middle of the Sahara.

[queerworldhistory]

Some photos from the To Survive on This Shore exhibit of Transgender Men who are older adults. 👏😃

From Hombres Trans México

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[girls-can-get-married]

🏳️‍🌈 Ruth Ellis (1899 - 2000) was the daughter of former slaves. She came out as a lesbian when she was 16-years-old to the complete acceptance of her family. In 1937, Ruth and her longtime partner moved to Detroit from their hometown of Springfield, Illinois for the promise of higher wages. There, she became the first woman in Michigan to run her own printing business. She printed fliers, posters, and stationary in the front room of her home, which also quickly became a hotspot for Black LGBTQ social life. Before long, Ruth was helping those who came around in any way she could, including by paying for college tuitions. After the Stonewall uprising, 70-year-old Ruth began giving speeches in support of gay and lesbian rights all across the country. She remained an activist for the rest of her long life and even spent her 100th birthday leading the San Francisco Dyke March. At the time of her death at 101, she was recognized as the oldest out lesbian in the US. She is the subject of the documentary "Living With Pride: Ruth C. Ellis @ 100" and is the namesake of the Ruth Ellis Center, a shelter for homeless and at-risk LGBTQ youth in Detroit.

Celebrate Ruth Ellis.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Ellis_(activist)

#Pride #BlackLivesMatter

[queerbuwan]

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[queerasfact]

“We stood there and watched and saw the flags, and their faces lit up. It needed no explanation. People knew immediately that it was our flag.”

- US Activist Cleve Jones

It’s 45 years today since the rainbow flag was first flown - on 25 June 1978 at San Francisco Pride - as a symbol of gay pride and the queer community!

[Image: two rainbow flags flying on flagpoles above a group of people out on the street at San Francisco pride. The flags have eight coloured stripes, and one has a blue-and-white star pattern in the top left corner.]

[queerasfact]

The first Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras was held on this day, 24 June, in 1978 in commemoration of International Gay Solidarity Day, and the ninth anniversary of the Stonewall Riots. A parade of around 1500 people was ambushed by police, ending in 53 arrests.

43 years on, the event has now blossomed into the biggest queer festival in Australia. This year it was celebrated as part of WorldPride, and the original protesters - known as the 78ers - led 50,000 people in a Pride march across the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

[I mages: police arrest a young man at the 1978 march; 78ers marching at WorldPride with a rainbow, black and pink banner reading “78ers The First Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Australia; still out and proud; 1978-2023″]

[queernewspaperarchive]

Naundorf, Geryllaeyn "Celebration: a look at gay lifestyles", Empty Closet, June 1975.

People is what the gay movement is all about. People feeling free to choose their lifestyles and forming communities with other loving, caring people.

There is an intense pride here a warm continuity of life.

There is a joy in the growing reality of human liberation and a feeling of hope as the constraints of labels begin to fall away and become irrelevant.

People standing together, working together, and loving together.

We are teachers, ministers, truck drivers, nurses, doctors, lawyers, clerks, and factory workers.

We are your neighbors , sons, and daughters . People as people. That's what it's all about. Geryllaeyn Naundorf

[elierlick]

Ewan Forbes was a Scottish nobleman who began his transition at age 15, around 1927. He was among the first transgender Europeans to have their gender accepted in court after his cousin sued to inherit his baronetcy. The court eventually ruled in Ewan's favor in 1968 and he inherited his family's 17th century pink castle in Brux. The massive estate was reportedly an inspiration for Walt Disney's castle design.

I was completely captivated by these photos of him so I decided to colorize them. That's him with his wife Isabella Mitchell on the left (1966) and a golden lab named "Stolen Day" on the right (1952).

Ewan published a 1984 memoir, The Aul' Days, which focused on his different journeys. More recently, Zoë Playdon wrote The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes. It follows Ewan's legal case and transition.

The Aul' Days: archive.org/details/auldaysforb00forb/page/n1/mode/ Hidden Case: transreads.org/ewanforbes/

[thetrippytrip]

Gay rights demonstration, Albany, New York, 1971

[queerworldhistory]

A St. Louis Man Wrote America’s First Gay Autobiography in 1901

Few details are known about the writer over 100 years later

[elierlick]

Transvestite and Transsexual Liberation demands from the 1970s. Not a single one has been fully met.

[queerworldhistory]

(Tiktok Profile) A collection of trans women in media and pop culture.

[commiepinkofag]

Lick Bush in '92!

Drag persona Joan Jett Blakk, co-founder of Queer Nation Chicago, announces candidacy for US President against George Bush in 1992.