Tag: 1990s
Revisiting KINKY GERLINKY the most fabulous (and outrageous) LONDON Queer Club of the 90s
In the early ’90s in London, with both Blitz and Taboo now closed the queer club night to be seen at was Kinky Gerlinky. It initially began monthly first at Legends then at Cafe De Paris and it was where clubbing culture met outrageous fashion and ‘out there’ costumes. Whilst mainly a gay club…
David Hodge/Dusty O talks about THE BOY WHO SAT BY THE WINDOW
This memoir is of the extraordinary frenetic life of a skinny queer kid who left his home in the grim North of England to ‘find himself in London‘. In the 1980s and 1990s he found himself as a central figure in a colorful larger-than-life hedonistic queer group of non-binary drag queens and soon become…
“Renegade: San Francisco, The 1990s” images of queer women by Chloe Sherman
Photographer Chloe Sherman’s new exhibit RENEGADES at the Schlomer Haus Gallery in San Francisco is probably one of the most striking collections of images of queer women we have ever seen. Sherman started in the early 1990s documenting a generation of young self-identified queers in the Mission District of San Francisco her hometown. She…
Ewen Spencer : While You Were Sleeping
While You Were Sleeping is the latest body of work from Brit Photographer Ewen Spencer. After graduating from art school in the 90s, Spencer started documenting London’s then-exploding nightlife scene for Sleazenation. Channeling the sharp, confronting style of photography greats like Chris Killip and Mark Power, but in London’s underground nightclubs, Spencer’s images…
Phyllis Christopher : In Pictures: Lesbian Sex and Protest in 1990s San Francisco
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.…
