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“‘I would get up at one or two a.m. and I would call every gay bar I had the number to from the 1940s. I wouldn’t say anything. I would just stay on the phone and listen to the sounds in the background. I would stay on until they hung up, and then I would call another one of my numbers, until I had called all the numbers I had … That phone. Those numbers. That was my lifeline … It meant there was a place somewhere — even if I couldn’t go there — that place was out there. I could hear it. Freedom.’ She called the bars two to three times a week like this — for fourteen years.”

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From an interview with Myrna Kurland in Baby, You Are My Religion: Women, Gay Bars, and Theology Before Stonewall, by Marie Cartier (2013). Myrna passed away in 2014, at age 86. A video of an additional part of her interview may be viewed here. (via debbyfriday)

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Trans lesbian feminist Beth Elliot’s response to TERFs who attacked her at the West Coast Lesbian Conference, 1973 (x)

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Since it’s LGBT history month it’s a good time to bring this back, with a minor correction- her surname is actually Elliott, with two t’s

Also here’s a photo of Beth from around the time she performed at the conference-

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This got better

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art on the cover of women: a journal of liberation vol. 5 no. 2, 1976

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September 1, 1949: Birthday of Comrade Leslie Feinberg, communist, anti-racist organizer, journalist and author who revolutionized the struggle for transgender rights. Leslie passed away in November 2014.

http://www.workers.org/articles/2014/11/18/leslie-feinberg/

Download the 20th anniversary edition of Leslie’s classic “Stone Butch Blues” at http://lesliefeinberg.net

Read Leslie’s in-depth series on the historical relationship between LGBTQ liberation and the working-class struggle for socialism, “Lavender and Red”: https://www.workers.org/lavender-red/

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Josylyn & Rachel, 1982. From Nice Jewish Girls: A Lesbian Anthology (1989).

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Catherine Opie, from “Domestic" series, 1995-1998.

In 1998 Catherine Opie embarked (along with her dog) on a “great American road trip.” Over three months she completed a 9,000-mile journey across the United States photographing lesbian families and couples in their home environments. The resulting series of photographs titled Domestic (1995–98) presents these families involved in everyday household activities: relaxing in their backyard, hanging out in their kitchen, or playing with their children. There is no sensationalism here. These intimate photographs speak both to Opie’s identification with her subjects and to the overwhelming absence of such images in mainstream representations.

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“dyke” photographed by catherine opie, 1993

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a lesbian softball tournament in park slope, brooklyn, photographed by morgan gwenwald and published in the lesbian almanac, june 1996

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Source - Making Out: The Book Of Lesbian Sex And Sexuality ( photography by Laurence Jaugey-Paget)

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When I was a little girl with little crutches and braces, science fiction was the only place I saw disability represented in a positive way. Of course, the characters weren’t named as disable…

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dr. dee mosbacher and dr. nanette gartrell on vacation in colorado, photographed by JEB (joan e. biren) 1984. published on the cover of lesbian connection vol. 2 no. 2, september 1988