# @hyperallergic on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DLSab1kM-Nw
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/33969973-hyperallergic-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/f50ebcf004.jpg
- **Posted:** 2025-06-24T14:58:31.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Hyperallergic (@hyperallergic) — https://gondola.cc/hyperallergic

## Caption

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.
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#AliceAusten #Pride #Photography #GildedAge #Lesbian #LesbianHistory #StatenIsland

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statenisland, lesbian, photography, pride, gildedage, lesbianhistory, aliceausten

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