Rebel Dykes In The 1980s, London. Photograph Credit To Laney Shimmin.

STRANGERS ON A TRAIN (1951) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

The Night of the Hunter 1955 | dir. Charles Laughton.

Frida Kahlo  by Nicholas Murray, New York, 1946

Megan Thee Stallion

It's common for transphobes to see us as our gender only when it can be used against us. The trans man is a man only when being intimate with him would make you gay or when his masculinity and the idea of him being a man disgusts you, but never in a context where it would be affirming to him. In the mind of a transphobe, he can be both a disgusting predatory gay man trying to turn a straight man gay and a woman who will never ever be a real man. He can be a deranged female fetishist preying on gay men and also a naive girl who just wants to escape misogyny. He can be a butch lesbian groomed into transitioning by homophobes who want to turn her straight and gender-conforming and also an unsafe man who deserves no protection and must be kept out of women's spaces. Transphobes can hold multiple of these pairs of beliefs at the same time about the exact same person because they're bigots and that's how bigotry works. The enemy is both too weak and too strong.

Great Comet of 1861 (Edmund Weiss, 1888)

"We do not have the responsibility of making gay life look good to straights so that they will accept us. I am not at all interested in promoting a cleaned up image to a straight world which is twice as corrupt and ten times as sick."

Vito Russo

Photography by Betty Lane, 1978

QUEERSKIN SERIES: camila by johnny moraes, styling by gabriel paulo + thalia passos & makeup by sasa ferreira + nilo

Nina Simone by Dezo Hoffman, London 1950

Office Building of Centraal Beheer (1970-72) in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands, by Herman Hertzberger. Photo by Klaus Kinold.