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Businesses
Organized by a feminist collective in the mid-1970s, the bookstore served as a safe space for lesbians and other Ann Arbor women until the early…
African Americans
When Prophet Jones was arrested on a morals charge by an undercover Detroit policeman in 1956, scandal magazines like Confidential and Whisper…
Colleges and Universities
During the nineteenth century romantic friendships among women were considered as innocent and non-sexual. By the early 1900s, however, passionate…
Alexandria, Egypt
August 13, 128 C.E.
Acquired in 1922
Written in Latin with one line in Greek
P.Mich.inv. 766 (P.Mich. III 166)
August 13, 128 C.E.
Acquired in 1922
Written in Latin with one line in Greek
P.Mich.inv. 766 (P.Mich. III 166)
D.H. Forsyth
Couples
Women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries sometimes tried to pass as men for economic reasons. Some couples like the one pictured…
Activism
Trish Brown narrowly lost her re-election bid to the Wayne-Westland School Board in a nasty campaign in which her sexuality was targeted with "Take a…