Here we see Radclyffe Hall, right, and her lifelong partner Lady Una Troubridge with their dachshunds at the Crufts dog show in February of 1923.
Dog shows have always had a disproportionately high percentage of butch women and effeminate men without children.
Displacement by childless couples using dogs as surrogate children is one of the threads that holds the movie, Best in Show, together.
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