A nude woman, her dark brown hair in long braids, stands in the middle of the forest, tersely conversing with a fully clothed park ranger. The woman is Jean Mountaingrove, who in the s and '80s was co-publisher of the lesbian feminist quarterly WomanSpirit and organizer of a women-only gathering of the same name. The encounter took place more than 40 years ago, and the photo of it, shot by Minnesota-born Carolyn "Meadow" Muska, could've gotten Mountaingrove into trouble. Women discovered to be lesbians back then were at risk of losing their jobs or kids. They still felt the effects of laws that had barred gays from working in the federal government with the threat of being fired if they were found out, and still remembered the McCarthy era's "Lavender Scare.