#prideinarchives

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Painter and teacher Lawrence Calcagno provided economic and emotional support to Beauford Delaney. Delaney wrote Calcagno letters of thanks and love in which he discreetly referred to their shared experience of being gay and feeling marginalized. s.si.edu/2xrXUDc

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Portraitist Cecilia Beaux often sketched and painted her lifelong partner, Dorothea Gilder. Explore their letters in the fully digitized Dorothea Gilder papers regarding Cecilia Beaux: s.si.edu/2LLlU74