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These documents about LGBTQ+ Native Americans present years of testimony from a wide variety of observers: military men, missionaries, explorers, trappers, traders, settlers, and later, medical doctors, anthropologists, homosexual emancipationists,…
Postcards collected by Marshall Weeks and dating to the early twentieth-century present satirical images of women who wore "mannish" shoes, shirts, collars, ties, and coats, who smoked, went to bars, and who moved independently in the…
The history of African American gays and lesbians on Chicago's South Side. First published on OutHistory in 2012.
Collector Sharon Weinman gathered this groups of photographs of women in masculine clothing from the early twentieth century. The photographs are introduced by historian Lauren Gutterman.