Joan Nestle with plaster wall plaque of women kissing. Photo by Robert Giard courtesy of Jonathan Silin. Copyright © The Estate of Robert Giard.
Mabel Hampton, Debrah Edel, Joan Nestle, Rota Pardo, at LHA on 92nd street, NYC, 1980. Photo courtesy of Joan Nestle and the Lesbian Herstory Archives.
GAA demonstration against ALCOA's Housing Discrimination against Gay People on the Upper West Side, NYC, c. 1970. Photo courtesy of Joan Nestle and the Lesbian Herstory Archives.
Mabel Hampton and Lillian Foster c. 1940s. Photo courtesy of Joan Nestle and the Lesbian Herstory Archives.
Uncharted Seas, by Eric Ward. Image courtesy of Joan Nestle, from the book collection of the Lesbian Herstory Archives.
Price of Salt, by Claire Morgan. Image courtesy of Joan Nestle, from the book collection of the Lesbian Herstory Archives.
Sara Harris. Hellhole: The Shocking Story of the Inmates and Life in the New York City House of Detention for Women. New York E. P. Dutton & Co. , Inc. 1967. Illustrated by Anita Walker Scott.
Hellhole. First printing in mass-market paperback. New York: Tower Publications Inc., 1967.
Women's House of Detention, New York City, 1938. http://www.nyc-architecture.com/GV/GV028JeffersonMarketLibrary.htm
A series of "musings on lesbian history" originally contributed as "Blog on History" by Joan Nestle, co-founder of the Lesbian Herstory Archives. Copyright © Joan Nestle 2008. All rights reserved.
The Author Ready to Set Out on Life's Journey.
From The Riddle of the Underworld
From The Riddle of the Underworld
Mulberry Street Market, Little Italy, New York City, 1900.
Earl Lind, Ralph Werther, Jennie June (from Autobiography of an Androgyne, p. 2.
Earl Lind, Ralph Werther, Jennie June (from Autobiography of an Androgyne, p. 4).
Rubyfruit Jungle "A novel about being different and loving it"
Advise and Consent, first edition
Photograph by Timothy Stewart-Winter for the Gerber/Hart Library. Copyright (c) Timothy Stewart-Winter, 2007. All rights reserved.
A series of articles by John D'Emilio written for the Windy City Times about Chicago's gay history and his own career as an historian of sexuality. Published on OutHistory February 5, 2013.