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El Paso Herald, Texas, September 12, 1928

Much learning doesn’t rob a woman of her femininity. It just seems that way because you can’t feel superior to her unless she’s dumb.

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, May 19, 1910 

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, May 19, 1910

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Portrait of soprano Carlotta Franzell. Printed on front: “J. Abresch, N.Y.” Stamped on back: “Kindly give credit to James Abresch, 200 West 57th St., N.Y.C.” Label on back: “Carlotta Franzell, who originated the demure little Cindy Lou in the Broadway production of Carmen Jones returns in the role when Civic’s final offering opens at Masonic, Monday, February 28.” 1949.

Courtesy of the E. Azalia Hackley Collection of African Americans in the Performing Arts, Detroit Public Library

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Mexican showgirl Olga Breeskin by Jesús Magaña, late 70s.

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Yvette Vickers

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Globe Shaving Parlor, Carr Street, St Louis, ca. 1910

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Joan Fontaine, Olivia de Havilland.

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Myrna Loy, 1938

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The legendary Hazel Scott!

This photo may have been taken some time in the late 1930s or early 1940s. A cropped version of it was used on the cover of Hazel Scott: 1939-1945, one of 965 CDs in the Chronological Classics series.

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“It’s another evidence of the desperation the homosexual campaign has reached in its effort to put homosexual lifestyle, which is a deathstyle, across to the American people.” A lobby group called Protect America’s Children made this statement in 1978—about a doll.

So this is actually complete news to me, but apparently in 1977 a doll called “Gay Bob” was released at first in gay magazines and then into stores, marketed as the world’s first openly gay doll. You can read about the history of the doll in the article above, or this second article here. 

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I love the wording here.  That Bob is the “first openly gay doll”.  Implying that other, older dolls might be SECRETLY gay.

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But where is his Kung Fu grip?

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