EditorialAn undated photo of Barbara Love, right, talks about her lesbian relationship with Sidney Abbott, left, during a panel discussion about changing concepts of marriage in 1973. (Christopher E. Jones/The New York Times)
EditorialKaty Pyle, a genderqueer lesbian and the founder of the ballet company Ballez, rehearses at the Joyce Theater in New York, May 24, 2021. (Yael Malka/The New York Times)
EditorialA photo provided by Kay Tobin Lahusen, via the New York Public Library shows Ernestine Eckstein, an African American lesbian activist who picketed the White House for gay rights in 1965, on the cover of the lesbian journal The Ladder in June 1966, photographed by Kay Tobin Lahusen. (Kay Tobin Lahusen, via New York Public Library via The New York Times)
EditorialPeople embrace in front of Cubbyhole, a lesbian bar in the West Village of New York, during a reopening event on April 8, 2021. (Jeanette Spicer/The New York Times)
EditorialCharles Busch, right, and the actor Kendal Sparks during a rehearsal for Busch's newest romp, "The Confession of Lily Dare," in Manhattan, Dec. 18, 2019. (Karsten Moran/The New York Times)