We’re continuing to celebrate #Pride month by highlighting lesbian icon Margaret Anderson! 🧡🤍🩷 Anderson’s time in the Fine Arts Building started in 1908 when she worked as a clerk for Browne Bookstore, then as an editor for The Dial. In 1914, she started The Little Review out of room 917. This avant-garde literary magazine was instrumental in bringing modernism to the U.S. and published many controversial works. Anderson was an out lesbian and possibly the first woman to advocate for gay rights in print. In the March 1915 edition of The Little Review, Anderson criticized a speech recently given by Edith Lees Ellis, cited as the first lecture defending homosexuality. Ellis, also a lesbian, argued that homosexuality led to naturally heightened creativity and that repressing queer existence strips the world of artistry. Anderson responded that Ellis didn’t go far enough. Tolerance for the sake of art wasn’t enough. “With us love is just as punishable as murder or robbery,” Anderson...