Photo of The Oral Traditions

This ephemera is from the Addresses Project which investigates lesbian and queer space and memory in New York City from the early 1900s to the present day through map-making, oral history interviews, ephemera and portraiture.  All ephemera were digitized and collected by Gwen Shockey. 

This photo is of The Oral Traditions, Kay Turner’s band, which started in 1972 after Turner graduated from Douglas College. In Turner’s words, The Oral Tradition was, “super wack, feminist performance. It was all about lesbian eroticism that was really not available in those other songs that were much more about partnering! They were about having a girlfriend and they were romantic but we were not of that ilk,” (https://addressesproject.com/memory/kay-turner).