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"Ira Jeffries (far right), with her girlfriend, Snowbaby, and her mother, Bonita (standing), celebrating Ira's sixteenth birthday in a Harlem club" from the Lesbian Herstory Archives. Captioned: "I'm the butch but I'm not allowed to dress as I please yet."
source: The Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader, edited by Joan Nestle
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author: joan nestle
the persistent desire
lesbian herstory archives
year: 1992
publisher: alyson publications inc.