Hush, Pa!

"'I don't like this young man coming here so often!' 'Hush, Pa! - It's not a man!'" Postcard from Marshall Weeks collection

Girls Will Be Boys

"Girls Will be Boys, You Know." !920s. On the back: "No. 739 Flappers. 12 Designs. Made in U.S.A." Postcard from Marshall Weeks collection

The Sublime and the Ridiculous

"The Sublime and the Ridiculous. 'Women up to Date.'" Postcard from Marshall Weeks collection

Nix Lady Nix

"Ps-s-s-t. Nix Lady Nix! You're not my kind of Valentine!" The Gibson Art Company, Cincinnati, published 1908-1920. Postcard from Marshall Weeks collection.

Me and My Boyfriend, My Boyfriend and Me

"Me and My Boyfriend, My Boyfriend and Me, There isn't much different between us, but he wears his Hair and his Skirts a bit longer then me." Postcard from Marshall Weeks collection

Which is the Rooster

"With Masculine Women, and Feminine Men, Which is the Rooster, and which is the Hen." Postcard from Marshall Weeks collection

Postcards of Masculine Women and Feminine Men from the Early Twentieth Century, by Marshall Weeks and Jonathan Ned Katz

Postcards collected by Marshall Weeks and dating to the early twentieth-century present satirical images of women who wore "mannish" shoes, shirts, collars, ties, and coats, who smoked, went to bars, and who moved independently in the…

Armed Forces Day

San Francisco rally, 1966

Old West

Men dancing together

Cross Dressing

Unidentified women dressed as men

Teaching "Straight" Gay and Lesbian History (2007), by Nancy C. Unger

This essay, which reflects on teaching gay and lesbian history at San Francisco State University and Santa Clara University, was first published in The Journal of American History 93, no. 4 (March 2007): 1192-1199. Copyright Organization of American…

Hirschfeld

Invitation to a Lecture given by Magnus Hirschfield at the Dill Pickle Club in 1931. Hirschfeld’s lecture at the Dill Pickle Club in 1931 was said to have drawn a record-breaking crowd of over 300. (Newberry Library: Dill Pickle Club Records).…

Joan Nestle

An Early Conversation about Gay and Lesbian Archives: From the Pages of The Gay Insurgent, 1979, by Jim Monahan and Joan Nestle

A conversation between Jim Monahan and Joan Nestle on preserving gay and lesbian history.

Nosey Cartoon

The Chicago Whip often commented on homosexuals' presence in the Stroll, the main street of Bronzeville. The column "Nosey Sees All Knows All," written under the pen name "Nosey," often discussed the lives of Bronzeville’s…

Magnus Hirschfeld

Invitation to a Lecture given by Magnus Hirschfield at the Dill Pickle Club in 1931. Hirschfeld’s lecture at the Dill Pickle Club in 1931 was said to have drawn a record-breaking crowd of over 300. (Newberry Library: Dill Pickle Club Records).…

Michael S. Miller

"Vermont Landscape"

"Vermont Landscape" Wesley Lea Lithograph (ca. 1938) Leo Adams Papers New York Public Library

Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman Daguerreotype (ca. 1853) Oscar Lion Collection New York Public Library

Adams to Macbain, page 3

Adams to Macbain March 8, 1931 page 3