“Pass it on to another gay gal."

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It’s September 1947 and the fourth issue of “Vice Versa,” Edythe Eyde’s self-published magazine (quite literally, typed on her office typewriter using five sheets of carbon paper during her “day job” as a secretary at RKO Pictures), is making the rounds. “I would also say to the girls as I passed the magazines out, ‘Now when you get through with this, don’t throw it away. Pass it on to another gay gal.’ We didn’t use the term lesbian so much then. We just said gay gal.” #makinggayhistory ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ Audiogram image: Edythe Eyde in the late 1940s. Credit: ONE Archives at the USC Libraries.⁠⠀

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