*img 1865 #WaltWhitman & #PeteDoyle + late 1890s #EdwardPerryWarren & #JohnMarshall + 1910s #BessieMarbury & #ElsiedeWolfe + 1935 #GertrudeStein & #AliceBToklas + n.d. #TennesseeWilliams & #FrankMerlo + 1950s #JamesBaldwin & #LucienHappersberger + 1954 #RobertRauschenberg & #JasperJohns + 1975 #JamesIvory & #IsmailMerchant + 1981 #FrancesClayton & #AudreLorde

The couples were social insurgents. That is, each pair defied the social order by creating sub-rosa same-sex marriages long before such relationships were legally sanctioned.

— #RodgerStreitmatter, 2012 Outlaw Marriages
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