Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterIf you ever thought masculine women and feminine men was a relatively new phenomenon, you would be so wrong. Here’s a song by Vaudeville singer Irving Kaufman from 1926 just about that which was considered very risqué in its day.
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterSince writing about Brooklyn Historical Society’s new Exhibit On The (Queer) Waterfront which traces 150 years of queer history in their Borough, we have come across another couple of US Museums who are curating very similar exhibitions. The Oakland Museum of California (OMCA) is currently planning Queer California: Untold Stories the first-of-its-kind that will … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterA few years ago Sébastien Lifshitz the Teddy Award winning French screenwriter and Director discovered an old photo that had belonged to two elderly women, whom it didn’t take long to realize were in a lifelong and loving relationship. It inspired Lifschitz into not only compiling this book of vintage portraits of gay love and pride, … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterBack in the days when Gay Bars were very noisy and distracting some bright spark invented the Hanky Code as a means signaling to others what your sexual preferences and interests are. The trouble is that some aficionados took it way to seriously and expanded the options so much that you had to have the … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterAny gay man of a ‘certain age’ who grew up in the Chicago area in the 1970’s & 1980’s would have most certainly spent some summer days at Belmont Rocks the city’s lakeside gay cruising area. On a large grassy expanse punctuated on one side by a series of tiered limestone blocks that separated the … Continue reading