#tommies

[flowerishness]

Crocus tommasinianus (early crocus)

It's official - Spring has sprung!

[collegeathletics]

University of St. Thomas Track & Field

[vox-anglosphere]

Victoria Station - 1916

[lillian-darby]

This seriously happened in 1726😭 During planned executions of Catherine Hayes(for being complicit in a murder), and Gabriel Lawrence, William Griffin, and Thomas Wright, all three for "sodomy"... Three latter were what folks called "mollies", a term that encompassed gay men and gender nonconforming people.

Read more about Margaret Clap's or Mother Clap's mollie house here and some court cases: (a bit graphic at times, beware)

Gay History: Three Molly-House Sodomites – 1726

May 9th, 1726. Nine men and one notorious women died at Tyburn on this date in 1726 at a more than usually raucous execution-day.“At the Pla

[oh-dear-so-queer]

Sexual activity between women, which had previously been ignored, glossed over or referred to only in discreet private letters, started to be discussed more widely, and gossip and accusations published. Women lovers of women were called 'tommies' in slang, but the classically educated spoke of 'sapphists' – from the Greek poet Sappho who wrote of her love for women.

"Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History" - Philippa Gregory

[2squeakyshoes]

Thompson Gazelle.

[barbiescanner]

Tommies 1961