Lesbian pulp novel cover
Post-World War II industrial workers
Wartime poster and post-war poster
WAC photographer
Colonel Oveta Culp Hobby, 1943
Esquire’s December 1943 calendar page featuring a Vargas girl donning a WAAC uniform.
World War II factory workers
World War II workers
WAAC Poster
Natalie Clifford Barney, 1892. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
Gertrude Stein, January 4, 1935. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
Radclyffe Hall and Lady Troubridge
Alice B. Toklas and Gertrude Stein
Mary Read and Anne Bonney, 18th century pirates and possible lovers.
Cotton mill workers in Indianapolis
Greek vase depicting Sappho
Photo of Esther Newton from the University of Michigan website.
"Lesbians in the Twentieth Century" was created by Professor Esther Newton and the graduate and undergraduate students in the seminar on "Lesbian History" that she taught in fall of 2006 at the University of Michigan. Newton and…
Barbara Cameron. Photo by Crawford Cameron
These documents about LGBTQ+ Native Americans present years of testimony from a wide variety of observers: military men, missionaries, explorers, trappers, traders, settlers, and later, medical doctors, anthropologists, homosexual emancipationists,…