raveneuse:

Charles Fréger, ONJISHI, Yusutani, Seiyo, Ehime Prefecture, from the series, “Yokainoshima: Island of Monsters,” 2016.

winnet:

Henri Matisse’s studio assistant Annelies Nelck with tracing of Apollo on the floor of the Hôtel Régina, Nice, c. 1953.

othersystems:

Hannah Ryggen, Mother’s Heart, 1947

pattismithandrobertmapplethorpe:

Patti Smith and Lizzy Mercier Descloux as Rimbaud and his sister Isabelle. Soho loft NYC 1976, photos by Michel Esteban

womeninarthistory:

On the beach, 1927, Zinaida Serebriakova

50watts:

From Ladies Almanack by Djuna Barnes, 1928

funnywildlife:

Budgett’s Frog. ( Lepidobatrachus laevis.)!!

National Geographic.
Photographer : Joel Sartore.

workingfortheclampdown:

Aztec Camera - Walk Out To Winter

Aztec Camera was a Scottish new wave band centered around singer-songwriter Roddy Frame. Frame was 19 at the time of the release of the band’s first album, 1983's High Land, Hard Rain. The band’s sound can be compared to an early-80’s Costello, or Scottish contemporaries Orange Juice.

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enoughtohold:

Members of San Francisco Bay Area Gay Fathers in the San Francisco Freedom Day Parade, 1980.

In San Francisco, San Francisco Bay Area Gay Fathers became a familiar fixture at the annual pride marches. From its inception, SFBAGF had attracted particular attention when it marched in the annual parades. Jack Latham described the way the “newspapers singled us out” and crowds “exploded” in cheers at the initial 1975 group. Latham reasoned that this was because gay fathers marching was “novel and startling.” Throughout the late 1970s, SFBAGF marched in the annual parades, with an increasing number of fathers. In 1979, SFBAGF members who marched in the parade began wearing “gay fathers” T-shirts and carrying banners emblazoned with the same logo. This increased the group’s visibility and membership. From 1982 to 1984, SFBAGF won “most inspirational float” in the parade.

— Daniel Winunwe Rivers, Radical Relations: Lesbian Mothers, Gay Fathers, and Their Children in the United States since World War II (2013), Ch. 5.

womeninarthistory:

Light Of The Lit Wick, 2017, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye 

lesbianartandartists:

Marie Laurencin, Chanson de Bilitis, 1904

“…both the painter Marie Laurencin (working in Paris in 1908) and the artist Jeanne Mammen (in Berlin in 1931) created illustrations for The Songs of Bilitis, a series of erotic poems attributed in the late nineteenth century to ‘Bilitis’, an ancient Greek philosopher, a lover of Sappho and, as was eventually revealed, an entirely fictive person. Nevertheless, when the first lesbian rights group in the United States was founded in 1955, it took the name Daughters of Bilitis both to honour the Sapphic past (in ancient Greece as well as nineteenth-century Paris) and to elude the stigma of modern words such as ‘homosexual’, ‘sex variant’ and 'lesbian’. Like 'friend of Dorothy’, 'Daughters of Bilitis’ (or DOB for short) was a term flexible enough to function as both sexual code and strategic closet. According to Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon, two of the founders of the Daughters of Bilitis, 'If anyone asked us, we could always say we belong to a poetry club.’”

Richard Meyer, “Inverted Histories: 1885-1979,” in Art and Queer Culture (New York: Phaidon Press, 2013), 17.