Curated by Marie Lyn Bernard, also known as Riese, the pictures below show how the same sex community has evolved in more than a century.
The editor-in-chief of Autostraddle took it upon herself to research early images of same-sex couples, painstakingly looking through archives, websites, digital collections, and Tumblr sites alike.
She noted on her website that it was ‘impossible to verify the sexual orientation of some of the subjects of earlier photos’ that were sourced to Tumblr.
She said: ‘Some of these photos may just be of cross-dressers or super-close friends.’
Victorian romance: A couple from the 1890s gazes into each others' eyes
Jet setting: Neoclassical sculptor Edmonia 'Wildfire' Lewis, pictured in the 1880s, was an American-born artist who spent most of her time in a lesbian artists' community in Rome
Herstory: Charlotte Cushman and Matilda Hays, a couple pictured from the 1850s, left, and right, Anna Moor and Elsie Dale pose for a photograph in 1900
Just the two of us: Left, a young couple in the 1900s is seated in garden from the Powerhouse Museum Collection, and right, a couple from the 1920s wearing top hats and three-piece suits
The odd couples: Four couples of women pose for a photo, around 1910
Feeling friendly: Left, four women at the Dyke Lumber Company in 1925, and right, American blues singer Gladys Bentley poses with bandleader Willie Bryant in 1930 outside the Apollo Theater
Sock hop: Two seemingly gay couples from the 1950s pass the time outside a bank in Idaho
Author Kathryn Hulme and former nun Marie Louise Habets, pictured in 1956
Ooh la la: Guests at the bar of the Chez Moune nightclub, the longest-running lesbian club in Paris, pictured in the 1960s
All you need is love: An interracial couple embraced on June 27, 1971 as demonstrators gather for the second Gay Pride Parade in New York City, left; right, Gwenn Craig, from San Francisco, holds aloft a poster giving her sentiments during final session of Democratic Convention on August 14, 1984
Menacing: Three members of Lavender Menace at the Second Congress to Unite Women in New York in May of 1970
Clarification: A couple in the 1970s wore shirts portraying stereotypes during a protest
Lazy summer day: A Germantown couple on porch in 1977
TLC: Mariana Romo Carmona, left, helps girlfriend June Chan, right, with the mundane task of grooming
Promised: Marilyn Barnett, seen after a judge ruled that she had no right to a $500,000 beach house she claimed was promised to her by her former lover, tennis star Billie Jean King, in 1981
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2210599/Evolution-community-One-womans-stunning-collection-lesbians-past-150-years.html#ixzz27z2lStN8
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