Photo: Ernest Cole

Akeem Smith, Dovecote.

Originally posted by: sashasaidsum on twitter

The Watermelon Woman (1996)

CUBA. Old Havana. 1998. Cuban women at Cafe Paris, a nightclub generally closed to locals. David Alan Harvey.

©️ @olufemifrederick ‘24

Untitled by Malick Sidibé, circa 1970

From La vie est belle - Mwezé Ngangura, 1988

“lesbians are coming out”, a poster by see red women’s workshop, 1982

“one day, i was reading a book about lesbians and my son came into the room and asked me to read from the book to him. so, i began to read to him, and the word lesbian came up somewhere in the few paragraphs that i read, and he said, “what’s a lesbian?” and i told him, “a woman that loves women and makes a life with a woman as a companion.” so he said, “oh, so that’s what you do.” i said, “yeah.” he said, “so that means you’re a lesbian.” and i said, “yeah.” and he said, “but mommy, i thought you were a virgo” from the documentary film choosing children: launching the lesbian baby boom, 1985

i just watched an amazing documentary on the iconic ruth c. ellis, a black lesbian activist, who was the oldest surviving open lesbian living to the incredible age of 101. watch her story, directed by yvonne welbon, here !

a comic drawn by leslie ewing published in the program guide for the march on washington for lesbian gay and bi equal rights and liberation, april 1993

anai akuei by hope glassel