white-throated-packrat:

dailylesbianappreciation:

Today I learned that in the first Olympics that had woman’s weightlifting, the united states weightlifter (who was 17 years old) set a U.S. record that hasn’t been beaten. She’s one of the most decorated female athletes in U.S history.

Her name is Cheryl Haworth, and this is her:

And this is her and her wife:

There’s a documentary about her: <a href=“https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2075317/”>Strong!</a>. The advertising tagline when I saw it at the SilverDocs festival was ‘Lift like a girl!’