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.



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)

LUKEEE / petyou (2023-FOREVER)