For several years, starting in 1979, the photographer Joan E. Biren, or JEB, travelled around presenting a slide show of photographs focussed on queer women, from different places and historical eras—creating a kaleidoscopic history of women presenting themselves to the camera lens, looking sexy, comfortable, jaunty, serious, and everything in between. “I started touring at a time when lesbians had no place in society and no known history,” she recalls. “I wanted us to feel like we belonged in a