LGB HistoryAmerican Midwest, late 1930s

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[–]julesburm1891[S] 16 insightful - 1 fun16 insightful - 0 fun17 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

The background on this: My sister was going through some old photographs that belonged to our great-grandparents and found this. Unfortunately, both of our great-grandparents have passed away and our gran doesn’t recognize either woman. (The photo was taken before her birth as well.) We don’t know their story, but I hope these ladies make you as happy as they made me.

[–]wafflegaffWoman. SuperBi. 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yes. Thank you for sharing this with us.

[–]PenseePansyBio-Sex or Bust 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

This is absolutely delightful, Jules. Wouldn't it be perfect for the cover of a book on lesbian history? (Or, yanno, lesbian-and-bi-women history... wish the gender-jerks hadn't ruined "sapphic"-- such a great word! And so well-suited to bringing the L and us female Bs together without creating an amorphous blob.) And yes, the joy of those two women is indeed infectious (in the best possible way!).

[–]julesburm1891[S] 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Sigh. I really do wish we had a term that encompassed lesbian and bi women that wasn’t tinged with TQ insanity. Sapphic just sounds porny to me me after seeing so many AGP dudes use it. WLW was good but now it just makes me think of creepy straight guys.

But, yes. I hope these women had a really good life together. I’m just sad we didn’t find this a decade ago when I could’ve learned more about them.

[–]PriestTheyCalledHimBisexual 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Thanks for posting this, can you do genealogical research on sites like ancestry, to find out who these women were? Maybe one was a great-great-aunt?

[–]julesburm1891[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

If I had to guess, it’s probably one of my great-grandmother’s cousins. Both of her parents came from huge families (13 and 9 kids) and of lot of their siblings had very big families too. Several of those cousins moved away, which could explain why my gran didn’t recognize them. (Plus, the lady on the left has the exact same nose as my great-gran.) Hopefully we can find more photos that have a name somewhere.

[–]automoderatorHuman-Exclusionary Radical Overlord[M] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

RIP Snappy, I AM THE NEW GOD!

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