Hollywood lesbian 1940s

Vintage sailors kissing! Mailed in a rigid Mailer. The photo is not real great job, whoever did the photshopping though! But the affair was allegedly very real. Occasionally I will get a message asking why there aren't more photos of men of color on Homo History. That is because they are much rarer and very difficult to find.

During the Golden Age of Hollywood in the s, actors and actresses shot to fame—but only if they tailored their images to the demands of the big studios. For LGBT actors, that often meant marrying a person of the opposite sex. The early 20th century represented a unique time for LGBT people in the country. Throughout the Roaring Twenties , men dressed as women and gender non-conformity and queerness weren't as taboo in big cities as they would be years later.

Using those books and the internet, I made you this chart, and compiled the list beneath it. Again, a lot of this information could be false, but it is also possibly true! Barbara Stanwyck pinged hard for her lesbian fans, even in movies where she had to pretend to be in love with a dude. She ultimately spent thirty years with her publicist Helen Ferguson. You have a marvelous face.

This article addresses the history of lesbianism in the United States. Unless otherwise noted, the members of same-sex female couples discussed here are not known to be lesbian rather than, for example, bisexual , but they are mentioned as part of discussing the practice of lesbianism—that is, same-sex female sexual and romantic behavior. Laws against lesbian sexual activity were suggested but usually not created or enforced in early American history. In , John Cotton proposed a law for Massachusetts Bay making sex between two women or two men a capital offense, but the law was not enacted. If a woman, by cutting thro' the cartilage of her nose a hole of one half inch diameter at the least, [6] [7] [8] " but this also did not become law.