gays have always been everywhere

Le sommeil _ Courbet 1866

Xica Manicongo, a Black trans woman living openly in Brazil in the 1500s.

FILM ID:560.08

📸 Candy Darling, a #transgender actress and #Warhol superstar, became an iconic figure in the LGBTQ+ and avant-garde art scenes of the 1960s and early 1970s. Known for her glamorous, feminine persona and her roles in Andy Warhol’s films Flesh (1968) and Women in Revolt (1971), she embodied the aspirations of many transgender women of her time. Darling’s life, however, was cut tragically short when she died of #lymphoma at the age of 29. One of the most poignant images of her is the photograph Candy Darling on Her Deathbed, taken by Peter Hujar in 1974, which immortalized her final moments and has since become a symbol of beauty, tragedy, and the fleeting nature of life.