My First Pride Parade

My first Gay Pride Parade was in June of 2007 in Chicago.

Drum June 1965

Cover, Voyage from Lesbos

Author Robert Robertiello was a New York Psychiatrist; his book was published 1959. A review of his book by Lewis W. Brabdt in The Psychoanalytic Review says it all: “This is, as the very well chosen title indicates, the report of the…

Ladder Cover, June 1966 with photo before and after

Original photo of Ernestine Eckstein, VP of Daughters of Bilitis (DOB) photographed in early 1960s and the cover of Ladder built around said photo. Photograph by Kay Tobin Lahusen; Ladder was edited by Lahusen's partner, Barbara Gittings, until…

Barbara Gittings in the Shower, 1962

Kay Tobin Lahusen, photographer.

Speaker at E.C.H.O. Conference

Kay Tobin Lahusen, "Speaker at ECHO Conference 1965" Possibly Donald Webster Corey?

Ernestine Eckstein V.P. of D.O.B

1960s Daughters of Bilitis (DOB) VP by Kay Lahusen Eckstein is a pseudonym.

Kay Lahusen, Realtor Photo

1980s.

Lilli Vincenz, Ladder Cover

Lilli Vincenz, 196- to 1966. Ladder Cover January 1966 by Kay Tobin Lahusen; from Lahusen/Gittings Papers, NYPL

Kay Lahusen and Barbara Gittings, 1991

Photographer Robert Giard. Robert Giard Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature

Kay Lahusen and Barbara Gittings, 1991

Photographer Robert Giard. Robert Giard Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature

Kay Lahusen, 2012

Jen Colletta, Kay Tobin: The Woman Behind the Lens, from baywindows.com (Serving Englands LGBT Community) 3 October 2012

Kay Tobin Lahusen, Annual Reminder 1969

Photog Nancy Tucker. copyright LHEF, Inc. Permission Lesbian Herstory Archives, Brooklyn NY. CSBL, 292. Stein noted in passing that it was unusual for Lahusen to be photographed as she was often the photographer.

Leeds and Northrup Factory, 1929

Leeds and Northrup Factory, 4901 Stenton Avenue, Nicetown-Tioga, Philadelphia, 1929. Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. Aero Service

The Furtive Fraternity

Gaeton J. Fonzi, "The Furtive Fraternity," Greater Philadelphia Magazine (December 1962), page 20. [cropped]

Radnor Raid Article

Thursday 25 August 1960 Suburban and Ayne Times p 1, cont. 2-A

Joey Hardman and Mae Polakoff

Joey Hardman and Mae Polakoff, 1961

"with permission of Joan Fleischmann". CSBL, 202.

Cadmus Drug Store

Taken in 1958, this pharmacy may have been a place to congregate for Joey Hardman and the girls from Hallahan Girl's High.

WAC recruitment poster