field mouse on a wild blackberry bush

Ode à ma mère

Female coal workers at the Rose Bridge Colliery, Wigan, UK, 1860s

Marchers at the Gay Freedom Day Parade in San Francisco. The focal point is a woman wearing a cape and a leotard with “Gay Power” emblazoned on the front in glittery cursive. She is carrying a shield depicting an outline of a labrys and the words “FIGHT BACK”

MORGENSTERN

Heavy, iron, spherical head with nineteen cusps, attached to a chain on a tapering ferrule, fixed by the straps on the rest of cylindrical, wooden, original shaft. Small, metallic, lateral plate with stamp “MARZOLI”. Extremely rare.

Germany, 16th Century

length totale circa 140 cm

Dress

c. 1875

silk

STORMÉ DELARVERIE

Storme DeLaverie, singer/entertainer/activist

During the 1950s and ‘60s he toured the black theater circuit as the only drag king of the Jewel Box Revue, America’s first racially integrated female impersonation show.

He was in the Stonewall Inn the night of June 27, 1969, and fought back against police helping to spark the Stonewall riots.

In the 1980s and ‘90s Stormé worked as a bouncer for several lesbian bars in New York City.