Diana Davies’ photo of Donna Gottschalk, taken at the 1971 Christopher Street Liberation Day Parade in New York City, is a captured outcry for women-loving-women’s liberation. Donna Gottschalk demands to be seen and recognized as a women-loving-woman and given visibility outside of pornography. Donna Gottschalk’s sign references the shunned attitude towards women-loving-women in every single aspect of daily life except to perform sex with another woman for a male audience. A women-loving-woman cannot exist, as she is underrepresented, mistreated, and ignored because her sheer existence denies men to use her as a service, and Donna Gottschalk firmly places herself in the spotlight by forcing her way into public domains and existing as an outright lesbian, unregulated by anyone.
Photo credit: Davies, Diana. 1971, New York Public Library.
