with the recent election i feel like our history is more important now than ever... i don't have much to say that everyone else doesn't want to say. i don't think it's the end, though. we've survived lifetimes of culutural dark ages.
mourn the dead and fight like hell for the living


some historical trans/gay photographs...
i'll try to source all of these but i may miss a few. let me know if you have any you would like to add. some of this may be nsfw.



i hope in the future we can establish more of a cultural presence of the queer community. we have a deep rich history, that is so interconnected.
gay people in my phone, I LOVE YOU!
trans fag weirdos, it's not just you there has been a million versions of you already.
we have always been here. we always will be.



Tarzan Tom and Sabre Patton, 2000






LGBT/ACT UP protests in New York City, late 1980s-1990s


Hustler Biker special (1986)


Steven B. (Photos from Bear Pride Ring)


Russ & Tony


Bear & Queer Issues from 1999


Bear (2000)


Gay Bear Page (2001)


Two TN Bears (1999)


Brat’s World and Friends (1998-2001)


Arthur Tress, "Lovers, NY," 1977


Gerard Donelan 1980s


poster by a teacher's union, 1977.


February 1973 issue of The Gay Liberator


New York, 1992


christopher street liberation day march (leonard fink)


Zine "Queer Action Figures #1," created by Tom Hill, Audra Farrell, and Charlie Welch (1994)


New York City Pride (1973)


Duane Kearns Puryear


A Photograph of Stormé DeLarverie in a Multicolored Hard Hat and Purple Shirt - 1995


the day after the white night riots in san francisco, ca (daniel nicoletta | may 22, 1979)


national leather association on june 30, 1991


LGBT co-op members at Yale University c. 1986


Out In America; A Portrait Of Gay and Lesbian Life , by Michael Goff and the staff of OUT magazine


Gerard Donelan


The Gay Liberator, November 1974


Philadelphia Gay News, 1976


"We do not have the responsibility of making gay life look good to straights so that they will accept us. I am not at all interested in promoting a cleaned up image to a straight world which is twice as corrupt and ten times as sick." Vito Russo (Betty Lane, 1978)


Lavender and Red Union (1975)


Army of Lovers or Revolt of the Perverts (1979) dir. Rosa von Praunheim


San Francisco Trans March (2012) ericwagner


“SICK!”, magazine spread in the National Enquirer (1980)






TranSexPress Issue 1 - Daisy Asquith, 1996


Gendertrash From Hell #1 - Mirha-Soleil Ross/Xanthra Phillippa, 1993


Steve Dain in 'Drag', 1976


Star-Ranger's Transgendered Galaxy, 2000






FTM BEARS in Transgender Tapestry 2001
featuring Drew Campbell, Michael "Mike" Hernandez and Matt Rice


(1998)


gender support from 1998


trans men marching in San Francisco Pride, 1990s. Allan Bérubé


1990s FTM portrait by Dean Kotula


photo of leslie feinberg at age 24


Marsha P. Johnson at a gay rights demonstration in Albany, New York, March 14, 1971. Photo by Diana Davies.


Lloyd Yearwood, Photograph of a drag club in Harlem, 1960s


FTM Newsletter, 1990s


trans jazz musician Billy Tipton with one his dogs.


Message to the American Psychiatric Association, Washington D.C., 1990s. (Mariette Pathy Allen)


leslie feinberg in 1998 speaking during they lived it "out!" an event that honored transgender people who were victims of hate crimes. (morgan gwenwald)


1996 edition of TransFagRag, a newsletter for gay and bisexual trans men


silas denver melvin


trans man Rupert Raj (circa 1970s) posing shirtless in bed


San Francisco Trans March (2012) ericwagner


Camp Trans: Gender Camp Zine (2001)


Camp Trans: Gender Camp Zine (2001)


San Francisco Trans March (2012) ericwagner


Trans People in Love 2008

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