Tokyo Love: Spring Fever 1994 By Nobuyoshi Araki And Nan Goldin

King Molasses, 2023

Eartha Kitt by George Silk for Life Magazine, 1955

Chloe Atkins’ portraits of lesbians at San Francisco’s Club Q featured in her published collection Girls Night Out (1998)

even dykes in dresses can hold up the world. photograph of louise rafkin in common lives/lesbian lives no. 15/16, june 1985

“I am typing these words as June 2003 surges with Pride. What year is it now, as you read them? What has been won; what has been lost? I can’t see from here; I can’t predict. But I know this: You are experiencing the impact of what we in the movement take a stand on and fight for today. The present and past are the trajectory of the future. But the arc of history does not bend towards justice automatically—as the great Abolitionist Frederick Douglass observed, without struggle there is no progress . . .”

- Leslie Feinberg

The Hitcher (1986) lobby cards

Donna Summer photographed by Harry Langdon for her album On The Radio (1979).

It's common for transphobes to see us as our gender only when it can be used against us. The trans man is a man only when being intimate with him would make you gay or when his masculinity and the idea of him being a man disgusts you, but never in a context where it would be affirming to him. In the mind of a transphobe, he can be both a disgusting predatory gay man trying to turn a straight man gay and a woman who will never ever be a real man. He can be a deranged female fetishist preying on gay men and also a naive girl who just wants to escape misogyny. He can be a butch lesbian groomed into transitioning by homophobes who want to turn her straight and gender-conforming and also an unsafe man who deserves no protection and must be kept out of women's spaces. Transphobes can hold multiple of these pairs of beliefs at the same time about the exact same person because they're bigots and that's how bigotry works. The enemy is both too weak and too strong.

Lewis Gribben in a Miu Miu mini skirt, jumper and red Dunhill rollback.

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by nicole maria winkler for metal magazine issue no. 40, autumn/winter 2018

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