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Ambassador Rufus Gifford is finally sworn in as the first openly gay Presidential Chief of Protocol

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    Openly gay Rufus Gifford, the former U.S. Ambassador to Denmark during President Barack Obama’s second term was finally sworn in as the Chief of Protocol this week, along with 30 other ambassador appointees in the Biden administration. He, and the other appointees, had been given their positions very soon after President Biden took … Continue reading



From the archives of Bob Mizer’s famed PHYSIQUE PICTORIAL

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  Photographer BOB MIZER’s Physique Pictorial may have been founded in 1945  but the atheistic in his stunning images of American photography are just as relevant today.  His studio in Pico-Union was known as the Athletic Model Guild (AMG) and that was where he made erotic photographs of muscular men and bodybuilders.       … Continue reading



The Legendary Danny La Rue – Britain’s most celebrated Female Impersonator

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  We’re starting the new year by taking a look back at one of our favorite queer icons of the  Since he first went on a stage wearing a women’s frock in the early 1950s Danny LaRue very quickly became the most celebrated female impersonator of his time in the UK.  A consummate performer always … Continue reading




Phyllis Christopher : In Pictures: Lesbian Sex and Protest in 1990s San Francisco

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  Currently at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, in the NE corner of the UK is a stunning retrospective of the work of Phyllis Christopher. Titled CONTACTS it is an intimate glimpse at the lesbian community in San Francisco in the ‘90s  Phyllis Christopher is an American photojournalist living and working in Gateshead. … Continue reading



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