gay history

  • Historian JULIO CAPO on QUEERMIAMI the new Exhibit that looks at our Community’s past

    Historian JULIO CAPO on QUEERMIAMI the new Exhibit that looks at our Community’s past

      To mark the 50th Anniversary of Stonewall Inn Riots, gay historian/academic and author of Welcome to Fairyland : Queer Miami before Julio Capó Jr. has curated  a new exhibit at HistoryMiami Museum . Queer Miami : A History of LGBTQ Communities traces our community from its roots to the current day. Queerguru took a…

  • Two new Exhibits to celebrate our LGBTQ History

    Two new Exhibits to celebrate our LGBTQ History

      Since 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…

  • The Fruit Machine : how Canada persecuted the LGBT community in the past

    The Fruit Machine : how Canada persecuted the LGBT community in the past

      For those of us in the LGBTQ community in the  US who have recently been looking North enviously at the positive and refreshing liberating leadership of Prime Minister Trudeau may be shocked to discover that there is also long history of oppression that the Canadian authorities rigidly imposed on anyone suspected of being gay. …

  • The truth behind The Favorite and other Royal same-sex scandals

    The truth behind The Favorite and other Royal same-sex scandals

      If you are curious to know how much of the Queen’s lesbian affairs in The Favorite are actually true, then you’ll probably want to know about the new tours being held by  the Historic Royal Palace Guides in the UK.   After all throughout the ages the Royal Family had its fair share of its…