1950’s
The re-discovered erotic queer art made by Duncan Grant in 1950s England
The UK has such a treasure of queer history that is so worth LGBTQ+ visitors jumping on a train out of London heading to the glorious English countryside. It’s exactly what The Bloomsbury Group did in the early part of the 20th century. They were a group of associated English writers, intellectuals, philosophers,…
Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives
If you love pulp fiction …. especially the lesbian kind …. then you’ll want to see this documentary full of titillating tales of taboo lovers. that has been digitally remistressed In the 1950s, a wave of lesbian pulp literature emerged, exploring a then taboo subject in vivid, sensationalistic detail. While these writers often…
Gay Life in the 1950s’ Cherry Grove on Fire Island
The New-York Historical Society is about to launch an exhibit of SAFE/HAVEN: GAY LIFE IN 1950s CHERRY GROVE. This OUTDOOR photographic Exhibit will give an intimate look at one of the first gay beach towns in the United States. It explores mid-20th-century gay life in Fire Island’s remote hamlet of Cherry Grove, located on…
PS Burn This Letter Please : a glimpse into NY’s gay drag scene in the 1950’s + 1960’s
In 2007 John Maloof a young graduate working on a history project bought a suitcase full of photographic negatives in a Chicago auction hoping that one or two them maybe useful in his research. However what he discovered that day was a treasure trove of what is undoubtedly one on the finest collection of street…
