Lesbian history

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For the history of gay men please see the gallery at history of gay men.
Para la historia de los hombres gay ver historia de los hombres gay.
Pour l'histoire des hommes gais voir histoire des hommes gais.
Per la storia degli uomini gay si veda: storia degli uomini gay.

Pre modern (before year 1800) / Pre-moderno (antes del año 1800) / Pre-moderne (avant l'an 1800) / Pre-moderne (prima dell'anno 1800)

Pre-modern - images / Pre-moderno - imágenes / Pre-moderne - images / Pre-moderne - immagini

new kingdom, 18th dinasty, 1480-1390 BC, Theban necropolis at Egyptian museum of Turin, Italy
two women at Suburban Baths (Pompeii)
two men with two women at Suburban Baths (Pompeii)
Zoan-Andrea (1464-1526), Two women. Italian Renaissance engraving.
Allegorical kiss between Justice and Peace.
Allegorical kiss between Justice and Peace.
Zeus, disguised as Diana, rapes Callisto. This is the only openly lesbian Greek myth.
Hendrick Goltzius (1581-1617), Justice and Prudence kiss each other.
Hendrick Goltzius (1581-1617), Concordia and Peace kiss each other.
same-sex couples Fauna and Faunus at district court (Amtsgericht) in Wismar, Germany
by Hans Kels the Elder ( carving : workshop of Jörg Breu the Elder ), design attributed to Geor Hörmann, dated 1537. Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna
Diana and Her Nymphs Bathing
Wolfgang Heimbach, Damen baden im Fluss, 1640
The birth of Bacchus by Master of Hovingham
Gérard Lairesse, Diana e Callisto.
Jacopo Amigoni (1675 - 1752), Giove e Callisto (ca. 1740/1750).
Pan and Syrinx by François Boucher (1759)
slepping Baccantes surprised by satyrs by François Boucher
Pan and Syrinx (1762)
Diane sortant du bain by Francois Bouche
Jupiter and Kallisto by Francois Bouche
Jupiter and Kallisto by Francois Bouche
Summer anagoria by François Boucher
Leda and swan by François Boucher
La Toilette de Venus by François Lemoyne
Woman Bathing by François Lemoyne
Mary Hamilton
Three women. 18th century engraving, created for a male audience.
Four women. 1797
Illustration from Le paysan ét la paysane pervertis; ou Les dangérs de la ville, 1787, by Restif de La Bretonne (1734-1806).
18 c.

Pre-modern - people / Pre-moderno - gente / Pre-moderne - personnes / Pre-moderne - persone

Sappho / Saffo / Safo

Sappho reading a poem. Attic vase, 440-430 bC.
Colossal head of Sappho, Istanbul. 2nd century aD.
Colossal head of Sappho, Istanbul. 2nd century aD.
The so-called "Sappho". Fourth style Roman fresco, 1st century AD; Pompeii, Region VI, Insula occidentalis.
Sappho as seen by Raphael, circa 1510. Rome, Palazzi vaticani, stanza della segnatura.
Sappho by Claude Ramey, 1801.

Christina of Sweden / Cristina de Suecia / Christine de Suède / Cristina di Svezia

Sébastien Bourdon: Christina of Sweden.
Sébastien Bourdon: Christina of Sweden (1653).
Christina of Sweden - engraving by Quillet.
Queen Christina's grave, in San Pietro, Roma.
Monument in the Musei Capitolini in Roma.
Monument in the Musei Capitolini in Roma.
Sébastien Bourdon (±1653): Ebba Sparre (1626-1662) lady-in-waiting to and intimate companion of Sweden's Queen Christina

Aphra Behn

Aphra Behn by Peter Lely ca. 1670
Oroonoko

Archduchess Marie Christine and Princess Isabella of Parma

1800-2000

1800-2000 - facts / 1800-2000 - hechos / 1800-2000 - factes / 1800-2000 - fatti

by Hokusai ca. 1814
Johann Heinrich Füssli before 1825
Courbet - The Sleep
Courbet - The Sleep
ca. 1840
ca. 1840
Anonym, c.1855
Carmilla the 1. lesbian vampire story, 1872
Damned Women, modeled by Auguste Rodin c. 1885
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901), The sofa Sun.
Toulouse-Lautrec, The two girlfriends, (ca. 1894-5).
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901). Two girlfriends.
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901), Two women.
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901), Two half-naked women.
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901), At the Moulin rouge (1892)
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901), In bed (1892)
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901), In bed (1893)
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901), In bed (1893)
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901), The kiss, (1892).
Cha-U-Kao by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
May Belfort by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Wilhelm von Plueschow (1852-1930), Two women, Rome, ca. 1900.
by Marcel Chatelain, ca. 1904
Cover of "Vanity Fair" Magazine "Bifurcated Girls" issue, cover publication date June 6 1903
Allegorical statues in Vienna.
Allegorical statues in Vienna.
1883
a lesbian brothel, 1884
Félicien Rops, circa 1890
Potok (1903) by Maxmilián Pirner
A Strange Railroad Wreck, 1904
An Anglo-American Alliance, 1906
Egon Schiele, Frauenpaar, 1915.
"Lesbian couple". From a criminological book, 1915.
Deux jeunes Femme couchées by Félix-Jacques Moulin 1850
by Jules Richard
Egon Schiele, Hochendes frauenpaar, 1918.
Anonym, c.1920
by Gerda Wegener 1925
The Well Of Loneliness, 1928
A 1928 issue of German lesbian paper "Die Freundin".
German lesbian paper Liebende Frauen with advertising of the Book Berlins lesbische Frauen by Ruth Margarete Roellig, 1928
The black triangle, used in nazi lagers for "asocial" people, is now a widespread lesbian symbol.
Women's Barracks by Tereska Torrès
one example of Lesbian pulp fiction cover
Lesbians, HIV and safer sex (1992)

1800-2000 - People / 1800-2000 - Personas / 1800-2000 - Personnes / 1800-2000 - Persone

Sappho in a 1883 engraving.
Scandalous rumor about Emma Hamilton, early 1800s
Anne Lister (1791-1840)
American actress Charlotte Cushman (1816-1876) in 1857.
Charlotte Cushman (1816-1876)
Charlotte Cushman (1816-1876)
American sculptor Harriet Hosmer (1830-1908). She was Charlotte Cushman's lover.
Rosa Bonheur (1822-1899)
dr Mary (Edward) Walker (1832-1919), a "passing woman", in 1863 ca.
Vida Dutton Scudder was an American educator and writer
Käthe Schirmacher lover of Klara Schleker, both were german feminist with racist ideas
French actress Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923) around 1864.
Sarah Bernhardt
Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923) in 1879. She was longtime companion to French sculptor Louise Abbéma.
Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923) by Giovanni Boldini , ca. 1880.
Sarah Bernhardt, 1891
Sarah Bernhardt as Cleopatra, 1891.
French actress Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923) in male clothes in L'Aiglon (1910).
British writer Vernon Lee (i.e. Violet Paget, 1856–1935).
British writer Vernon Lee (i.e. Violet Paget, 1856–1935) in 1889.
Natalie Clifford Barney (1876-1972) in 1892.
Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) in 1902.
Liane de Pougy (1869-1950) (1902).
Liane de Pougy par Nadar.
Liane de Pougy par Nadar.
Paul César Helleu (1859-1927), Liane de Pougy, (1908 ca.).
german feminist writer Johanna Elberskirchen (1905 ca.)
Male impersonator Hetty King (Winifred Emms, 1883-1972) in 1908.
Hetty King (Winifred Emms, 1883-1972) in 1910.
Russian dancer Ida Rubinstein (1885-1960) in 1910.
Léon Bakst, La danseuse Ida Rubinstein (1885-1960) en Hélène de Sparte, 1912.
Openly lesbian German singer Claire Waldoff in 1914.
Renée Vivien, ca. 1909.
Isadora Duncan. She was bisexual. Her best documented love affair is the one with writer Mercedes de Acosta.
Mercedes de Acosta
Isadora Duncan and Sergei Yesenin, 1923.
Russian writer Zinaida Gippius (Зинаида Николаевна Гиппиус, 1869-1945), by Léon Bakst (1906).
(София Яковлевна Парнок) Sophia Yakovlevna Parnok's birthhouse .
a married Transman,(1830? – 25 August 1901) Edward De Lacy Evans,
Dame Ethel Smyth in 1901. A composer, a stern feminist, Smyth was also for a time Virginia Woolf's lover.
Selma Lagerlöf (1908), painted by Carl Larsson.
Margaret Damer Dawson and Mary Allen
Chishō Takaoka in 1920
Frida Kahlo nel 1932.
Frida Kahlo in 1932.
American writer Gertrude Stein, photographed by Carl Van Vechten in 1934.
Gertrude Stein photographed by Carl Van Vechten in 1935.
Gertrude Stein photographed by Carl Van Vechten in 1935.
Alice B. Toklas (1877-1967) photographed by Carl Van Vechten in 1949.
Elsie de Wolfe circa 1917
Mary Canedy Burt
Josephine Baker
Josephine Baker photographed by Carl Van Vechten, October 20, 1949
an agender couple Claude Cahun & Marcel Moore
Yuasa Yoshiko (湯浅芳子)
Pia Beck
Pia Beck vs Anita Bryant
Kay Lahusen is the first openly gay American woman photojournalist and partner of Barbara Gittings over 46 years
Agatha Barbara ( 3rd President of Malta )

21st century / Siglo XXI / 21me siècle / 21mo secolo

See also: Category:LGBT history in the 21st century
See also: Category:Lesbian couples.
See also: Category:Bisexual women.
See also: Category:Gay Pride.

21st century - facts / Siglo XXI - hechos / 21me siècle - facts / 21mo secolo - fatti

La Lista lesbica italiana al Bari Pride (Italy, 2003).
Arcilesbica - at lesbian and gay pride in Grosseto (Italy, 2004).
"Dykes on bykes" at San Francisco march, 2005.
"Dykes on bykes" at the Icelandic lesbian and gay pride march.
"Dykes on bykes" at the Icelandic lesbian and gay pride march.
At the lesbian and gay pride march in Taiwan, 2005.
At the lesbian and gay pride march in Taiwan, 2005.
At the lesbian and gay pride march in Taiwan, 2005.
Thoko Ngubeni in her fight against all kinds of discrimination and stigmitisation. by Andrew Esiebo
NYC Pride Parade 2012
Thank Frank

21st century - people / Siglo XXI - gente / 21me siècle - gens / 21mo secolo - persone

Ellen DeGeneres at Emmys.
Openly "out" tennis champion Amélie Mauresmo in 2005.
Italian film-maker Gabriella Romano.
Chavela Vargas in 2009
Jeanette Winterson.
Chen Yu-Rong, Wang Ping
Judith Butler
Danilo Türk with his Frist Lady (Barbara Miklič Türk) and Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir with her Frist Lady (Jónína Leósdóttir)
Lynne Brown
Tiina Rosenberg
Annamarie Jagose
Ulrike Lunacek
Aliona Polujanova

21st century - Maps / Siglo XXI - Mapas / 21me siècle - Plans / 21mo secolo - Mappe

Recognition of same-sex relationships: Europe
Recognition of same-sex relationships: North America, from Mexico north
Recognition of same-sex relationships: United States
Gay adoption: Europe
Gay adoption: North America

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