1980’s
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How the CIA’s “gaydar’ worked in 1980 in HOW TO IDENTIFY A HOMOSEXUAL
Back in the days when most of us were not nearly as colorful as the two men above, the CIA released a three-page memorandum on how to identify homosexuals during investigations. According to the 7 point list on how to use their prescribed gaydar , I would have easily passed as ‘straight’ ……..except for…
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Queerguru @ BFI Flare : Rebel Dykes : London in the 1980’s
In the opening minutes of this powerful documentary we hear a voice that says ‘ we were young, working-class and poor: we were dykes NOT lesbians.” It is a statement of fact but there is a slight edge to it which we take as a warning not to misinterpret who this group of queer women…
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Linda Simpson : THE DRAG EXPLOSION of the 1980s
If you still yearn for queer life in = New York City back in the 1980’s, when drag was so much more original, creative and really fun, then you’ll love this new book THE DRAG EXPLOSION by Linda Simpson The one time publisher of the revolutionary queer magazine, My Comrade , Simpson would go on…
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Madam Cyn R.I.P.
The much beloved Cynthia Payne known by all simply as ‘Madame Cyn’ when she gained notoriety as Britain’s most famous Brothel Madam and who singly-handed exposed the hypocrisy of the country’s prudish and ridiculous morality laws back in the 1970s, has now died aged 82. When the Police raided her very ordinary looking home in the London suburbs they found a…
