Free to Use and Reuse: LGBTQ+
These portraits of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Americans represent people who made a difference in many careers and time periods. LGBTQ+ Pride Month is often recognized in June. Unless otherwise noted, the images are from the Prints & Photographs Division.
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Jack Baker and Michael McConnell at home, 1970 -
Civil rights leader Bayard Rustin, 1963 -
Walt Whitman and Peter Doyle, 1865 -
Gay Pride Parade, San Francisco, California, 2012 -
Legal theorist and activist Pauli Murray, 1947 (Chronicling America) -
Gay rights demonstration, 1976 -
Writer James Baldwin, 1955 -
AIDS quilt, Washington, D.C., 1990s -
Dr. Mary Edwards Walker, U.S. Army surgeon and suffragist, 1912 -
Gay rights activist Frank Kameny -
Poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1914 -
Transgender activist Christine Jorgensen with her fiancé, Howard Knox, 1959 (Chronicling America) -
Writer Mercedes de Acosta -
Dr. Oliver Sacks, physician and author, 1985 -
Artist Keith Haring, 1985 -
Jazz composer and pianist Billy Strayhorn, 1946 (Music Division) -
Writers Christopher Isherwood and W.H. Auden, 1939 -
Blues singer Bessie Smith, 1936 -
Writer Natalie Clifford Barney, 1890-1910 -
A new era for women workers, minority women and lesbians, 1976 -
Pianists Arthur Gold and Robert Fizdal, 1952 -
Sculptor Emma Stebbins, 1856 -
Choreographer and dancer Alvin Ailey, 1955 -
Actress Charlotte Cushman, 1859 -
Photographer Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1896