Clear Comfort, the home where photographer Alice Austen grew up and lived for the majority of her life, became the first nationally designated site of LGBTQ+ history in 2017, in no small part because of earlier protests led by the Lesbian Avengers insisting that the Staten Island museum acknowledge Austen’s 50-plus year relationship with Gertrude Tate. The home is also a central character in Bonnie Yochelson’s new biography of the pioneering queer woman photographer, “Too Good to Get Married: The Life and Photographs of Miss Alice Austen.” “Rediscovered” in the 1950s, her images offer tantalizing glimpses of intimacies among women at a time when only a tiny number of women were behind the camera, and even fewer offered anything that could be described today as a lesbian gaze. Learn more in Alexis Clements’s review of “Too Good to Get Married” at the link in bio. . . . #AliceAusten #Pride #Photography #GildedAge #Lesbian #LesbianHistory #StatenIsland