Historian Hugh Ryan (author of When Brooklyn Was Queer) gets his first book review published in the NY Times. Gay Bar: Why We Went Out a memoir by Jeremy Atherton Lin, is a toast for the gay bars that shaped queer identity, both personal and collective. Full Review … Continue reading
Rev. Raymond Broshears was a gay preacher from Illinois who moved to San Francisco in 1965. It was there, after being beaten by a group of teenagers, that he decided to protect his community. He formed the Lavender Panthers, a group of armed gay activists on the prowl for would-be gay bashers. Read MORE … Continue reading
Four Years Before Stonewall, ‘The Gay Cookbook’ Showed a Never-Before-Seen Side of Homosexual Life : In 1965, four years before the Stonewall Uprising, a man named Lou Rand Hogan published The Gay Cookbook, a 280-page book “for that very special man in your life or for the jaded hostess whose soufflés no longer stand on their own.” https://bit.ly/3dE21xB … Continue reading
Orlando Gay Club Shooting: The Victims In the early hours of Sunday, 12th June 2016, the lives of 49 innocent people were taken in the name of hatred. Here, we remember the LGBT brothers, sisters, and allies who fell victim to the tragic events at Pulse club, Orlando. Read more Amazon Prime are … Continue reading
The sequin-clad satirical weirdos Bourgeois & Maurice are BACK LIVE FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY If you are in London CANCEL YOUR PLANS NOW : ps here’s the video of when Queerguru last chatted with them https://bit.ly/3Bnnara. The Muxes of Mexico Are a ‘Third Gender’ Who Straddle the Line Between Respected and Reviled In the … Continue reading