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Oh to be in a Boston marriage in the Victorian era 🥀🌙❣️

Boston marriages (2 gal pals living together) were very common at Wellesley College in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Of the 53 women faculty, only one was married to a man and most of the others lived with a woman companion.

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this is a but i’m a cheerleader appreciation post

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Women kissing in the woods, early 1900s

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The single best thing about coming out of the closet is that nobody can insult you by telling you what you've just told them.

Rachel Maddow

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𝐰𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫

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“Hi Mom, Guess What!” - First gay pride rally in philadelphia (1972) / Photographed by Kay Tobin Lahusen.

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Two Women in Love - John Gutmann, 1937

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skinned knees, sunburned noses, picnics, strawberry stained lips, sweet kisses

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«I came upon a family photo album belonging to two ladies. They were Kodachromes from the 1960s. The images weren’t extraordinary in any way, but I was quickly drawn to a detail. I was unable to discern the nature of the relationship between these two women: were they two sisters, two friends, or two lovers? I asked the dealer if he had other albums, and miraculously, he pulled out ten others that were vegetating in old boxes. I bought them all and returned home to begin a kind of investigation inside the albums. Very quickly, I understood that these two women were a couple. Many of the images showed them intertwined, hand in hand, loving eyes. What astonished me was that their middle-class appearance didn’t match the act: the act of producing an image of homosexual love at a time when discretion was the norm. Because to obtain these images, they had to have gone to a small neighborhood photo lab to develop the film and then go back to pick up the prints. They, therefore, had to run the risk of exposing themselves socially. The need to keep a memory of their love was certainly stronger than the disapproval of some business or any concerns about what others might say. Later, I found many other anonymous images with traces of intimate homosexuality. Every time, there were the same testimonies of freedom and happiness. With each discovery, I was stunned, for these images didn’t match the official history of homosexuality as it had been conveyed to us.» [Sébastien Lifshitz, The Invisibles: Vintage Portraits of Love and Pride]

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to be by your side.

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Washington Square park, New York 1970 - Ellen Shumsky

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just gals being pals, vintage edition pt. iii

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this

imagine growing old with your wife in a small house in a neighborhood by the sea, with a rose garden and a vegetable patch. you can smell the ocean every time you step out the door and when in rains, you sit inside by the warmth of the fire and drink pot after pot of cinnamon tea.

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i need to get a typewriter and write a book of sapphic love poems for my lesbian lover... the creme-colored paper and black ink bound together with string, a little note scrawled on the cover, dried flowers pressed in between the pages, left  gently on her pillow

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dreaming about this

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ｕ　ｎ　ｄ　ｅ　ｒ　ｗ　ａ　ｔ　ｅ    ｒ　日意ド たプデピ永ゆ

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all i want is an afternoon in this paradise with my girl

come on in, the water’s warm!