Thread by @LisaTalmadge

Lesbian in the military. 1950’s

“They were my lovers, those women but no one taught us to swim.”

“I drowned and I took 3 or 4 others down with me when I signed the confession of what we had done together”
-Judy Grahn

“Lesbian Sexual Radicals”
1980’s

Photo: Jill Posner

Book: Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers-Lillian Faderman

New York, 194O’s

From: “A Lesbian Photo Album”
by Cathy Cade, 1987.

“Frankie”
1950’s Butch

ODD GIRLS AND TWILIGHT LOVERS- by Lillian Faderman

Frankie Hucklenbroich

Mary Fields.

You can purchase Lillian Fadermans wonderful book here: amazon.com/Odd-Girls-Twil…

Soon (if there is interest) I’ll do a thread on Faderman’s work and “Lesbian Sexual Radicals and Cultural Feminists” and why marriage WAS NOT a goal of many lesbians in the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s #LGBT Rights struggle.

#queerpol

Lillian Faderman is alive. Buy her books. She is my favorite lgbt historian.

Jeanne Cordova, activist and editor of “Lesbian Tide”

Here she is planning the first ever national Lesbian conference. 1972

So hot they called Jeanne the “James Dean of the Lesbian Scene”

Read about her extraordinary life here:
jeannecordova.com
#queerpol