gay history
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Angela Davis OUTSPOKEN
Angela Davis the black lesbian radical scholar who went from political prisoner to revolutionary icon, to public intellectual is being celebrated in a brand new exhibition opening in San Francisco’s GLBT History Museum soon. Curated by collector Lisbet Tellefsen and historian Amy Sueyoshi the Exhibit considers some of the roles Davis has played in the American…
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When Chicago’s Belmont Rocks were a ‘gay paradise’
Any 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…
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The work of East Village photographer of the 1970’s PETER HUJAR is recognized in a new Exhibit
There is a new Exhibit of the work of PETER HUJAR a quintessential East Village photographer in the 1970’s and 1980’s whose stark black and white images beautifully captured a shifting generation who would soon be almost decimated by the AIDS pandemic, which would kill him too. The show, Peter Hujar: Speed of Life, looks…
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Canada’s dark past persecuting the LGBT community
In the 1950’s and 1960’s the Royal Canadian Mounted Police created a vicious campaign to root out all gay men and women from their ranks and also from the military and cvil service. Faced with the reality of a lack of resources to conduct blanket surveillance on all suspects, they invented that device that…
