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Colleges and Universities
During the nineteenth century romantic friendships among women were considered as innocent and non-sexual. By the early 1900s, however, passionate…
D.H. Forsyth
Couples
Women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries sometimes tried to pass as men for economic reasons. Some couples like the one pictured…
Olan Mills Photographers
Activism
In revealing his and Randy Block's same-sex union ceremony, Byron Center music teacher Gerry Crane set off a firestorm of protest among parents who…
Bars and Nightclubs
Ralph O'Reilly and Ralph Stallings met at a cocktail party in 1949. After living in Detroit for ten years, the couple moved to a farmhouse in…
Couples
The longtime couple is shown outside their Davisburg farmhouse where Stallings had a noted bonzai garden. A few years later they moved to San Diego,…
Bars and Nightclubs
Betty Underwood met Melva Earhart on a visit to Flint in 1957, and they soon began dating. After their romance faded, the two remained close, with…
Colleges and Universities
Originally from New York, Raphael moved to Michigan in the early 1980s to attend Michigan State University. He was last reported to be living with his…
Bars and Nightclubs
This photo was taken at an unidentified Detroit bar shortly after Pierson and Purcell began their lifelong relationship. After World War II, they…