Golden Days

I grew up never seeing myself on-screen, and it’s really important to me to give people who look like me a chance to see themselves. I want to see myself as the hero of any story. I want to see myself save the world from the bomb.

and that is gay history!!!

ZENDAYA COLEMAN by Mireya Acierto | W Magazine

“FAT DYKES RULE” at the new york city dyke march, june 2000

an advertisement in the newsletter of the atlanta lesbian feminist alliance vol. 16 no. 3, march 1988

Alia Shawkat photographed by Dan Doperalski for WWD magazine (2016).

Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds - Judy Grahn (1984)

Jodie Comer and Sandra Oh for Entertainment Weekly (March 2019)

Stevie photographed by Bob West. Many thanks to him for sharing these with the world.

“We had dorm rooms next to each other freshman year.  We mainly just played a lot of board games: Risk, Scrabble, Scattergories, a Trivial Pursuit game from the 1980’s, which everyone sucked at.  But we became best friends, and the next year decided to get a house together.  That’s when things started to get tense.  We began sitting closer together.  We were touching more.  We’d play with each other’s hands.  Never holding hands, but playing with hands.  And we’d even fall asleep in the same bed together.  There was a time that she told me goodnight, and I swear I felt her brush my lips, but by the time I opened my eyes she was out of the room.  Neither of us had ever dated a woman.  And I was terrified to try anything.  We were such good friends.  There was always this fear that if I voiced the desire, it would ruin our friendship.  But one night we were out for drinks at a hotel where Al Capone used to stay.  I was feeling pretty drunk, so I leaned over and said: ‘Sometimes I feel like I want to kiss you.’  And she replied: ‘Sometimes I do too.’  I didn’t say a thing.  I wasn’t even sure that I’d heard her correctly.  I just kept thinking: ‘Oh my God, it’s happening.  It’s happening.’  Then once we finished our drinks, and started walking home, I stopped her in front of a bridge.  I said: ‘Shall we do it here?’  It was December 12th, 2002.  And even though we got married five years ago, that’s the day we celebrate as our anniversary.”

Stevie photographed during the ‘Rumours Tour’ at Madison Square Garden in 1977.

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