Retro Lesbians

Lorraine Hurdle (1922-2014) was a Black lesbian woman who served in the United States Women’s Army Corps (WAC) in Germany during World War II.

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To My Women Friends (1993), dir. Natasha Sharandak

Mädchen in Uniform (1958)

‘Two Women Kissing in Nature,’ an illustration from ‘Le Poison Des Pierreries’ by Georges-Antoine Rochegrosse, 1903

Onyx: Black Lesbian Newsletter, 1982

from common lives/lesbian lives no. 15/16, june 1985

excerpt from To My Women Friends (1993), dir. Natasha Sharandak

1995, issue #1 of Serbian lesbian magazine Labris

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Mariana combing girlfriend June’s hair, 1988

Daydreams, 1890

Conversation with a Native Son: Maya Angelou and James Baldwin