LGBTQ* History You Might Have Missed in Art Class
Peter Gluck (1895-1978)
Gluck, an English trans* artist, born a wealthy and close-knit Jewish family, was a noted floral painter. His most well known work came later in life with Medallion, which featured Gluck and his long time partner of 34 years, Edith Shackleton Heald. Gluck also painted the Vigo Press cover of Well of Loneliness.
Queer* Relationship Appreciation Post
Photographs of Una Vincenzo, Lady Troubridge (sculpture/translator) and Marguerite “John” Radcliffe-Hall (author of Well of Loneliness), partners for 28 years
LGBTQ* Did You Know
Radclyffe Hall’s Well of Lonliness
- Lesbian novel published in the 1928 — Butch/Femme Relationship
Well of Lonliness’ publication in the United States started such an uproar that one judge called the book’s moral stance, “worse than throwing acid in a young person’s eyes.”