For this special day, which celebrates the history of Lesbians all around the world, we decided to share this amazing compilation by amazing lesbian blogger Riese. Happy International Lesbian Day!!!
150 Years of Lady-Loving-Ladies In The U.S.
1850s
Charlotte Cushman and Matilda Hays
1880s
sculptor Edmonia “Wildfire” Lewis
Kitty Ely class of 1887 (left) and Helen Emory class of 1889, Mount Holyoke students, via vintagephoto.livejournal.com
1890s
photo by alice austen
via flickr.com/photos/sshreeves
Two women, 1899, via fyeahqueervintage.tumblr.com
via chloeandolivia.wordpress.com
1900s
Young couple seated in garden from the Powerhouse Museum Collection, via hersaturnreturns.com
1900, Anna Moor and Elsie Dale
Lily Elise and Adrienne Augarde 1907, via fyeahqueervintage.tumblr.com
1910s
Photo from silent film The Amazons (1917) via knowhomo.tumblr.com
via “Gay & Lesbian Richmond” (Adele Clark, bottom center, lived with fellow suffragist Nora Houston “as companions” for years)
Four couples of women pose for a photo, ca. 1910 — Image by © DaZo Vintage Stock Photos/Images.com/Corbis
Education reformer Elizabeth Irwin via historyisqueer.tumblr.com
1918
1920s
photo by Dorothy Schmitz via “Gay & Lesbian Atlanta”
Thelma Wood and Djuna Barnes
via flickr.com/photos/peopleofplatt
1921, Chicago, via fyeahqueervintage.tumblr.com
1930s
via vintage affectionate women pool on flickr
1930s Paris, photographed by Brassai. The photographs were part of a series for his 1933 book “Paris By Night,” which focused on working-class dance halls known as bals-musettes.
via bilerico.com
American blues singer Gladys Bentley (1907 – 1960) poses with bandleader Willie Bryant (1908 – 1964) outside the Apollo Theater where posters advertise a performance by Bryant & his band, New York, New York, April 17, 1936. (Photo by Frank Driggs Collection/Getty IMages)
1940s
couple in 1946, photograph by weegee, via museum.icp.org
“San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park
P82-125a.6000 Training school, Bethlehem Shipbuilding, 10/14/43″
1940’s “louise” via flickr.com/photos/missing_linck
“Evelyn “Jackie” Bross (left) and Catherine Barscz (right) at the Racine Avenue Police Station, Chicago, June 5, 1943. They had been arrested for violating the cross-dressing ordinance.” via blog.chicagohistory.org
Betty “Joe” Carstairs via butch-in-progress.tumblr.com
1940s Wrens, via theinkbrain.wordpress.com
Estelle de Willoughby Ions with a YWCA Art Student, 1954, via “Gay & Lesbian Richmond”
via Wide Open Town: A History of Queer SF to 1965, by Nan Alamilla Boyd, courtesy of Mary Sager
Mabel Hampton and Lillian Foster
1945, Male impersonators posing at Mona’s, via Wide Open Town History Project Records Courtesy of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society.
1950s
Keannie Sullivan & Tommy Vasu at Mona’s, via foundsf.org
“1950’s gay and lesbian couples” via flickr.com/photos/missing_linck
Founders of The Daughters of Bilitis with friends at Juanita’s in Sausalito. photo by Miss Cecil Davis, courtesy of the GLBT Historical Society
Bonita Jeffries, standing, with her daughter Ira and Ira’s girlfriend Snowbaby (17), celebrating Ira’s 16th birthday “at a nite club.
Kathryn-Hulme-and-Marie-Louise-Habets
1960s
guests at the bar of the chez moune nightclub (the longest-running lesbian club in Paris), via fuckyeahqueerpomps.tumblr.com
1967, Joan C Meyers via “Gay & Lesbian Philadelphia”
“Two Friends At Home” by Diane Arbus, 1965
Barbara Gittings in picket line, photo by Kay Tobin Lahusen (1965), via NYPL
Lesbian Wedding, 1968. via The Wide Open Town History Project Records. Courtesy of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society.
1970s
Donna Gottschalk holds poster “I am your worst fear I am your best fantasy” at Christopher Street Gay Liberation Day parade, photo by Diana Davies via NYPL
Jannette Louise Spires, Mary Alice Wesley & Brenda Ann Bush, Tampa, Florida
Three members of Lavender Menace at the Second Congress to Unite Women, New York, 1970 May (May 1970), photo by Diana Davies via NYPL
Gay Activists Alliance Softball Team, photo by Kay Tobin Lahusen via NYPL
photo by Diana Davies via NYPL
1971, Albany Gay Rights Demonstration, photo by Diana Davies via NYPL
1970, Sylvia Rivera, photo by Kay Tobin Lahusen via NYPL
1971, Christopher Street Liberation Day Parade, photo by Diana Davies via NYPL
Gente, A Women’s Celebration at the Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA 1975, photo by Cathy Cade via leslielohman.org
Gay rights demonstration, Albany, New York, 1971, photo by Diana Davies via NYPL
1971, manonla evans and donna-burkett in wisconsin
1971, Gay rights demonstration, Albany, New York, photo by Diana Davies via NYPL
1972, ALA Taskforce
1972 – Lesbian Couple, Hollywood, photo by Anthony Friedkin
1972, The Black Lesbian Caucus at NY Gay Pride
1972 – “Lesbian Couple #1” photo by Kay Tobin Lahusen via NYPL
1973 – Gail and Kate Rebuilding Cathy’s VW Engine, Emeryville, CA, photo by cathy cade
1974 – Isis at the IHOP: Seated L to R: Suzi Ghezzi, Stella Bass, Jeanie Fienberg, Nydia Mata, Lauren Draper, Carol MacDonald and Ginger Bianco. Standing is Lolly Bienenfield. via via queermusicheritage.us
Inez Garcia at San Francisco Freedom Day, via leslielohman.org
screenshot via “After Stonewall” documentary
Women embracing at Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival, 1976, photo by diana davies
1971 – Gay Pride Parade New York City (Image by © JP Laffont/Sygma/CORBIS)
via lesbianseparatist.tumblr.com
Gay rights march in New York
New York City Pride, 1977
1977, Germantown couple on porch, photo by Kay Tobin Lahusen via NYPL
1977. Photo by Marie Ueda from The Marie Ueda Collection. Courtesy of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society.
the atlanta lesbian feminist alliance softball team
Salsa Soul Sisters meeting, New York City
“Fat Chance” Dance Group, Berkeley, CA 1979, photo by Cathy Cade via leslielohman.org
via “Gay by the Bay”
1980s
Dykes on Bikes
“lesbian couple” in the east village, 1981, by amy arbus
San Jose Lesbian March
Old Wives Tale Bookstore in San Francisco, California. Photo by Carol Seajay via lostwomynsspace.blogspot.com
C1 Women’s Lib Rally 1982, © 2008 – Don Ventura
Audre Lorde & Angela
“young dykes” (from the Lesbian Herstory Archives photofiles, marches 1980s folder)
Outside the courtroom, the press interviews Marilyn Barnett, accompanied by her attorney, Joel Ladin (right), after a Superior Court judge ruled that she had no right to a $500,000 beach house she claimed was promised to her by her former lover, tennis star Billie Jean King. Los Angeles, California, December 18, 1981. — Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
1983, Castro Street Fair
sistah boom
Chicago
the Common Lives team
the indigo girls with winona laduke
Kitty Tsui by Jill Posener for “On Our Backs” magazine
via “Gay & Lesbian Philadelphia”
lesbian avengers via lesbianavengers.com, photo by carolina kroop
1988, Mariana Romo Carmona and June Chan, photo by Robert Giard via NYPL.com
1990s
ACT UP! photo by donna binder
Yolanda Duque & Cira Domingues
1993 Gay Pride in New York City, photo by Philip Jones Griffith
via sinister wisdom
ACT UP! protest in Chicago, 1990, photo by flickr.com/photos/genyphyr
copyright Saskia Scheffer
Janet Gail and Carolina Kroon, via lesbianavengers.com, photo by carolina kroon
photo by/of Laura Aguilar
Servicemembers in gay Pride parade, photo by cathy cade
Minnie Bruce Pratt & Leslie Feinberg, photo by Robert Giard via NYPL
via lesbianavengers.com, photo by carolina kroon
Dorothy Allison with Alix Layman and Wolf-Michael, 1995, photo by Robert Giard via NYPL
“Two Sandras” by Joyce Culver
The lesbian tent at the Beijing International Women’s Conference
1993 – New York City Pride
1995, “keisha and lia,” photo by joyce culver
1993 Gay & Lesbian March on Washington, via flickr.com/photos/perspective
1993 – NYC Pride March
lesbian couple fighting for custody of their child, 1995, via The Advocate
van dykes at the 1993 march on washington, via “The Advocate”
Susan Meiselas 1995 USA. New York City. Pandora’s Box. via magnumphotos.com
Greenwich Village 1997 via flickr.com/photos/perspective
punk band Team Dresch, mid-90s
dyke march, 1998
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