🥳🩺🇬🇧 Happy 186th Birthday to Sophia Jex-Blake (1840–1912)! Dr. Blake was a trailblazer for women in medicine in the UK. She led the fight for women to study medicine, becoming one of the famous “Edinburgh Seven,” the first group of women admitted to medical school in Britain.
After facing intense opposition, she went on to co-found the London School of Medicine for Women, creating a path for future generations.
She also shared her life with Dr. Margaret Todd, her partner and fellow physician. Determined, resilient, and quietly radical, Sophia helped open doors that had long been closed to women.
#sophiajexblake #herstory #womeninstemm #representationmatters #lgbt
Tayla and Stacy said their "I do's" in the lush forest garden of @littlestreamconstantia with all their important people as witness. This sweet couple's wedding exuded intentionality and joy and we are so happy to have been a part of it.
Thank you for trusting us to capture your memories. 💙
#lesbianwedding #queerwedding #lgbtqweddingphotographer #capetownweddingphotographer
Happy 104th Birthday to Felice Schragenheim (1922–1944/45)! Felice was a German Jewish journalist and resistance courier whose life became widely known through the story of her relationship with Lilly Wust during World War II. Born in Berlin, Felice grew up in a Jewish family and worked as a journalist before the Nazi regime forced Jewish professionals out of public life. Refusing to disappear quietly, she joined underground networks that helped hide Jewish people and passed messages for the resistance.
While living under a false identity, she met Lilly Wust in 1942; the two fell deeply in love and lived together for a time despite the enormous danger. Their relationship later inspired the film Aimée & Jaguar.
Felice was arrested by the Gestapo in 1944 and deported through several camps, including Theresienstadt Ghetto and Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. She is believed to have died in 1945, though the exact circumstances remain uncertain. Her story stands as a moving testament to courage, resistance, and love under unimaginable risk.
#wwii #herstory #representationmatters #lgbt #wlw
🇮🇹🏀 Cecilia Zandalasini (born 1996 in Broni, Italy) is one of the most talented players to come out of Italian women’s basketball in recent years. A versatile forward known for her smooth shooting and court vision, she’s starred for the Italy women’s national basketball team and spent time in the WNBA, winning a championship with the Minnesota Lynx in 2017.
Cecilia has built most of her career in Europe, where she’s been a scoring leader and key playmaker for top clubs in Italy and Turkey. Off the court, she’s openly lesbian and part of the growing group of elite athletes helping normalize visibility in professional sport. Skilled, confident, and quietly competitive, she’s become a standout presence in international basketball. ♥️
#wnba #representationmatters #lgbt #wlw
Lam met Chi because she couldn’t stop thinking about a Chinese fiction novel... and the person who had edited it to perfection.
That editor was Chi.
What started as a curious Facebook friend request turned into a boba shop meet-up, and eventually, more than a decade of sunsets, road trips, and “will you go out with me?” moments.
It wasn’t instant. Lam actually confessed her feelings six times before Chi said yes on the seventh. But once she did, it all clicked.
They spent their days stargazing, hiking mountains, and supporting each other through school, bias, and family pressures.
By their second year together, Chi had moved in with Lam’s family.
Five years later, a career opportunity took them to San Jose, and from there their international adventures began - Vietnam, Thailand, Japan, China.
Always seeking the outdoors, always chasing something bigger than themselves.
After ten years together, they chose Jade Dragon Mountain in Shangri-La, Yunnan, for their vows. A place that felt dreamlike, adventurous, and deeply them. The mountain views, the stillness, the sense of wonder.
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🇨🇦🏒 Jamie-Lee Rattray is a steady, two-way forward who’s built her career on hockey IQ and work ethic. She is a key piece of Canada’s women’s program.
She won Olympic gold with Team Canada at the 2022 Winter Olympics, contributing depth scoring and reliable special-teams play. She’s also been a presence in the PWHL era, known for her calm game and locker-room leadership.
Off the ice, she’s spoken openly about being a lesbian and about representation in women’s hockey—measured, thoughtful, and focused on making the sport safer and stronger for the next generation!
#pwhl #bostonfleet #representationmatters #lgbt #wlw
🥳 Happy 78th birthday to Jean O’Leary (1948–2005)! Jean was a pivotal American lesbian activist whose organizing helped shift the direction of the modern gay rights movement in the 1970s. A former Catholic nun, she left religious life and became a national figure after speaking at the 1973 American Psychiatric Association convention, where activists challenged the classification of homosexuality as a mental disorder — a watershed moment in LGBTQ history.
O’Leary co-founded the National Gay Task Force (now the National LGBTQ Task Force) and later established National Coming Out Day in 1988, encouraging visibility as a political tool. She also founded the National Gay Rights Advocates, focusing on legal protections.
Strategic, media-savvy, and sometimes controversial for her pragmatic approach, O’Leary believed institutional change required disciplined, credible advocacy. Her legacy sits at the heart of late-20th-century lesbian and gay political organizing in the United States.
#jeanoleary #herstory #representationmatters #lgbt #wlw
