Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas  Gertrude Stein and Alice B.
Toklas are icons in literature and LGBTQ folklife. Narratives
concerning their lives portray them as a publicly visible
lesbian couple that was nevertheless not seen as Lesbian
(belonging to the Lesbian community).  Alice B. Toklas and
Gertrude Stein leaving a plane in Chicago, circa 1934. No
explanation was given for the little dolls they were carrying (,
December 2012)   Gertrude Stein was born into a German Jewish
family in Allegheny, Pennsylvania in 1874, and grew up in Europe
as well as the USA. In 1893, Stein enrolled at the Harvard
Annex, which became Radcliffe College in 1894. Her studies
included psychology with William James at Harvard/Radcliffe,
medicine at Johns Hopkins Medical School, and embryology at the
Marine Biology Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Alice
Babette Toklas was born in San Francisco in 1877 to parents of
German Jewish and Polish Jewish heritage. She studied music at
the University of Washington. Neither Tokla