gay history
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THE ROAD HERE: a fresh new take on queer history
If you are a regular reader of QUEERGURU then you’ll know that we are passionate about queer history . So too is a 29 year old Brit in East London called Jim Kemp the creator behind an excellent new Podcast that we have become addicted too. You would never guess that THE ROAD TO HERE…
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SAFE/HAVEN: Gay Life in the 1950’s Cherry Grove
Since the 1940’s Cherry Grove, New York a small village on FIRE ISLAND has been a vacation paradise for the LGBTQ Community. The Cherry Grove Archives Collection a non-profit organisation was established to record the community’s history and is currently presenting an Exhibit SAFE/HAVEN; GAY LIFE IN THE 1950’s at Stonewall National Museum & Archives in Wilton Manors. Queerguru…
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Dragtime : looking back in time
A great wee find on YouTube (so its free) is this thoroughly entertaining HBO documentary by then newbie director Patti Kaplan about some of our favorite Drag Queens. The year is 1997 and Jeff Roberson aka Varla Jean Merman is so young he is totally unrecognizable in men’s attire : Lady Bunny had more…
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PRIDE : Photography of Stonewall & Beyond by Fred W. Darrah
Fred W. McDarrah was a staff photographer for The Village Voice and an author who became famous for documenting the cultural phenomenon known as the Beat Generation from its inception in the 1950s. His other claim to fame was his whole body of work photographing New York’s’ LGBTQ scene before and after the Stonewall…
