365daysoflesbians:Portraits of a young Elsa Gidlow, circa 1920s.Elsa Gidlow was a lesbian poet
365daysoflesbians:Portraits of a young Elsa Gidlow, circa 1920s.Elsa Gidlow was a lesbian poet, philosopher, and woman of letters. Her book On a Grey Thread (1923) was the first collection of openly lesbian love poetry published in North America, and her autobiography, Elsa: I Come With My Songs (1986) was the first lesbian autobiography whose author did not publish under a pseudonym. After her death, her papers were gifted to the GLBT Historical Society. -- source link
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