This Day in Queer History

On this day, poet and novelist Vita Sackville-West was born. Her passionate affairs with women, including Virginia Woolf, inspired Orlando and made her one of the most celebrated queer literary figures in history.

On this day, suffrage leader Carrie Chapman Catt died. She founded the League of Women Voters and spent over twenty years alongside her partner, fellow suffragist Mary Garrett Hay. They are buried side by side.