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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-years-of-lesbians-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

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.