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Charity and Sylvia: The Remarkable Story of How Two Women Married Each Other in Early America
Charity and Sylvia: The Remarkable Story of How Two Women Married Each Other in Early America

“For 40 years… they have shared each other’s occupations and pleasures and works of charity while in health, and watched over each other tenderly in sickness.”

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A Good Man: Moving Animated Short Film by StoryCorps Tells the Human Stories of LGBT Pride
A Good Man: Moving Animated Short Film by StoryCorps Tells the Human Stories of LGBT Pride

How a moment of utter vulnerability brought together eight siblings torn apart by their father’s bigotry.

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Willa Cather on Making Art Through Troubled Times: A Moving Letter to Her Younger Brother
Willa Cather on Making Art Through Troubled Times: A Moving Letter to Her Younger Brother

“The test of one’s decency is how much of a fight one can put up after one has stopped caring, and after one has found out that one can never please the people they wanted to please.”

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Queer Kids’ Endearing Letters to Judy Blume and Her Timeless Advice to Their Parents
Queer Kids’ Endearing Letters to Judy Blume and Her Timeless Advice to Their Parents

Warm wisdom from the beloved author to console on one of life’s deepest sources of isolation.

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The Greatest Queer Love Letters of All Time
The Greatest Queer Love Letters of All Time

Virginia Woolf, Oscar Wilde, Eleanor Roosevelt, Margaret Mead, Allen Ginsberg, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and more.

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How Susan Sontag Possessed New York and Subverted Sexual Stereotypes
How Susan Sontag Possessed New York and Subverted Sexual Stereotypes

“Sontag seemed to exude an irresistible mixture of intelligence, hipness, sex, and beauty.”

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The Invisibles: Moving Vintage Photos of LGBT Couples in the Early 20th Century
The Invisibles: Moving Vintage Photos of LGBT Couples in the Early 20th Century

Archival images — sometimes poignant, sometimes playful, invariably tender — of gay and lesbian couples privately celebrating their love in an era that denied it.

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The Breathtaking Love Letters of Violet Trefusis and Vita Sackville-West
The Breathtaking Love Letters of Violet Trefusis and Vita Sackville-West

“All the hoardings of my imagination I have laid bare to you. There isn’t a recess in my brain into which you haven’t penetrated.”

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The Book about Moomin, Mymble and Little My: Tove Jansson’s Playful and Philosophical Vintage Masterpiece
The Book about Moomin, Mymble and Little My: Tove Jansson’s Playful and Philosophical Vintage Masterpiece

The gloriously illustrated story of an errand turned adventure turned existential parable.

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Legendary Anthropologist Margaret Mead on the Fluidity of Human Sexuality in 1933
Legendary Anthropologist Margaret Mead on the Fluidity of Human Sexuality in 1933

Eighty years before marriage equality, a progressive lens on human love.

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