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Donna Gottschalk’s “Brave, Beautiful Outlaws” is opening at Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art on Aug. 29. While Ms. Gottschalk doesn’t identify as a documentary photographer or a photojournalist, she has been making pictures since she was 17. Photos selected from her 50-year personal archive will be made public for the first time.

Her work documents her closeness with her working class family and her involvement with the radical lesbian, sometimes separatist, communities in the late ’60s and ’70s.

The photos are tinged with mourning and mystery. She’s been holding their memory for decades, “fiercely protective” and unwilling to “subject them to scrutiny, judgment and abuse” from the outside world.

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when u push them with ur foot and they make the “mmph” noise before they stretch and sit up and blink @ u bc they can’t see yet but then they smile and u both do the little laugh bc ur sleepy bitches

and their hair’s all messed up and their eyes are cloudy and they’re probably wearing clothes 3x too big but it still looks amazing on them

then u both just sit there and their voice is croaky and a little sore and they probably whisper because even though it’s morning it’s quiet and they don’t want to be too loud