150 Years of Lesbians: A Pictorial History

Dance-with-me · 09-25-2012, 03:36 PM

I just looked through this and loved it and wanted to share.

http://www.autostraddle.com/150-year...sbians-144337/

It's an amazing pictorial history of the lesbian community, including from the butch/femme community. Some of the older pictures I'm sure are included based on conjecture instead of any proof that the subjects were gay, but overall it's so great to view. I even recognized a few faces of people that I have met in person!

Artdecogoddess · 09-25-2012, 03:55 PM

I LOVE THIS!

ADG

Miss_J · 09-25-2012, 04:31 PM

Thank you so much for sharing this! I enjoyed it very very much.
I was sad though not to see any mention or pictures of Judy Tallwing McCarthy in there.

Angeltoes · 09-25-2012, 04:35 PM

Incredible. Thank you so much for that link.

skeeter_01 · 09-25-2012, 04:39 PM

Thanks!! This is so cool!!!~

skeet

Genesis · 07-10-2013, 10:38 AM

Thank you so much for such a rich pictorial history of love <3

CherylNYC · 07-10-2013, 02:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Miss_J

Thank you so much for sharing this! I enjoyed it very very much.
I was sad though not to see any mention or pictures of Judy Tallwing McCarthy in there.

Some of Judy's gorgeous recent paintings are now on view in an exhibit at the Visionary Arts Museum in Baltimore.

o'queery · 07-10-2013, 02:52 PM

Ava Adore <3 thank you so much for sharing this!

Greco · 07-10-2013, 03:43 PM

Thank you for the great memories, damn but we're strong, beautiful!

Greco

CherylNYC · 07-10-2013, 06:46 PM

When I looked at all the wonderful images when this was first posted I don't know how I missed the image of Edmonia Lewis, (second photo from the top), a fascinating sculptor who was well ahead of her time. She attended Oberlin College, becoming one of the first women of colour, (African American/Ojibwe), to do so. Falsely accused of poisoning her roommates, she was set upon by a crowd and badly beaten as a result.

She had become a successful sculptor by the time she relocated to join a colony of women sculptors in Rome known as the, (ahem), Rome Amazons. The band of reputed lesbians was led by Emma Stebbins, the first woman to get a major sculptural commission in the U.S.- the Bethesda Fountain in NYC's Central Park.

09-25-2012, 03:36 PM	#1
Dance-with-me Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: earth Posts: 419 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 264 Thanked 1,926 Times in 378 Posts Rep Power: 21474849	150 Years of Lesbians: A Pictorial History I just looked through this and loved it and wanted to share. http://www.autostraddle.com/150-year...sbians-144337/ It's an amazing pictorial history of the lesbian community, including from the butch/femme community. Some of the older pictures I'm sure are included based on conjecture instead of any proof that the subjects were gay, but overall it's so great to view. I even recognized a few faces of people that I have met in person!

09-25-2012, 03:55 PM	#2
Artdecogoddess Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Preferred Pronoun?: She - but read me however! Relationship Status: Blissfull! Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Baltimore Posts: 399 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,596 Thanked 887 Times in 199 Posts Rep Power: 5087999	I LOVE THIS! ADG __________________ [ Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you...it means that you do not treat your body as a commodity with which to purchase superficial intimacy or economic security; for our bodies to be treated as objects, our minds are in mortal danger. It means insisting that those to whom you give your friendship and love are able to respect your mind. It means being able to say, with Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre: "I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all the extraneous delights should be withheld or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give. Responsibility to yourself means that you don't fall for shallow and easy solutions--predigested books and ideas...marrying early as an escape from real decisions, getting pregnant as an evasion of already existing problems. It means that you refuse to sell your talents and aspirations short...and this, in turn, means resisting the forces in society which say that women should be nice, play safe, have low professional expectations, drown in love and forget about work, live through others, and stay in the places assigned to us. It means that we insist on a life of meaningful work, insist that work be as meaningful as love and friendship in our lives. It means, therefore, the courage to be "different"...The difference between a life lived actively, and a life of passive drifting and dispersal of energies, is an immense difference. Once we begin to feel committed to our lives, responsible to ourselves, we can never again be satisfied with the old, passive way." Adrienne Rich

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Miss_J Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Relationship Status: ? Tournaments Won: 1 Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Michigan Posts: 508 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,415 Thanked 1,558 Times in 324 Posts Rep Power: 10308963	Thank you so much for sharing this! I enjoyed it very very much. I was sad though not to see any mention or pictures of Judy Tallwing McCarthy in there. __________________

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CherylNYC Member How Do You Identify?: Stonefemme lesbian Preferred Pronoun?: I'm a woman. Behave accordingly. Relationship Status: Single, not looking. Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: NYC Posts: 1,467 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 9,474 Thanked 7,116 Times in 1,205 Posts Rep Power: 21474853	When I looked at all the wonderful images when this was first posted I don't know how I missed the image of Edmonia Lewis, (second photo from the top), a fascinating sculptor who was well ahead of her time. She attended Oberlin College, becoming one of the first women of colour, (African American/Ojibwe), to do so. Falsely accused of poisoning her roommates, she was set upon by a crowd and badly beaten as a result. She had become a successful sculptor by the time she relocated to join a colony of women sculptors in Rome known as the, (ahem), Rome Amazons. The band of reputed lesbians was led by Emma Stebbins, the first woman to get a major sculptural commission in the U.S.- the Bethesda Fountain in NYC's Central Park. __________________ Cheryl