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On #LesbianVisibilityDay, we are sharing vintage photos of Black lesbian radicals & their contributions to Black political movement building.

BLACK LESBIANS WILL NOT BE ERASED.

📸: 1972, The Black Lesbian Caucus at NY Gay Pride.

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📸: Angela Davis came out as a lesbian to Out in 1997.

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📸: 1971, Gay rights demonstration, Albany, New York, photo by Diana Davies via NYPL

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📸: Gwenn Craig holds aloft a poster giving her sentiments during final session of Democratic Convention in San Francisco, California. August 14, 1980. Bettmann/Corbis.

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📸: C1 Women’s Lib Rally 1982, © 2008 – Don Ventura.

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📸: 1995, “Keisha and Lia,” photo by Joyce Culver.

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📸: 1993 Gay & Lesbian March on Washington, via flickr.com/photos/perspec…

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📸: Ernestine Eckstein on the cover of the June 1966 edition of The Ladder. Credit: Photo by Kay Lahusen. Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library.

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📸: Audre Lorde & Dr. Gloria Joseph

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📸: Mabel & Lillian Foster. date unknown. Lesbian Herstory Archives, Mabel Hampton collection.

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📸: Anita Cornwell

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Photos & Sources:

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google.com/amp/s/villaros…

google.com/amp/s/www.them…

makinggayhistory.com/podcast/ernest…

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Source on Angela Davis coming out as a lesbian in 1997: google.com/amp/s/www.out.…

out.com/news-opinion/2…

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