Chaka Khan, Live In New York City. 1979.

respect your decision to grow. never go back to people, habits, and situations that made you miserable.

"Pearls" by Morgan Gwenwald

source: The Femme Mystique, edited by Lesléa Newman

Photos of trans people & cross dressers, by Charles "Teenie" Harris taken in Pittsburgh's Hill District (1940-60)

Ruby Dee photographed by Carl Van Vechten on September 25, 1962.

even dykes in dresses can hold up the world. photograph of louise rafkin in common lives/lesbian lives no. 15/16, june 1985

Judith/Jack Halberstam Photo by: Del LaGrace Volcano

Crash (1996) dir. David Cronenberg

Bruce Springsteen by Herb Ritts, New York, 1992.

some recent portraits of butches of color. via butchisnotadirtyword

CLINT EASTWOOD as MONCO For a Few Dollars More (1965) dir. Sergio Leone