queer history
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Queer love at the South Pole on Captain Scott’s legendary Antarttic Expedition in the early 1990s
Captain Scott was a British Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions in the early years of the 20th Century His story about how he reached the South Pole and how his team died on the way back to the ship is well documented, and at the time he became a celebrated…
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Getty Center LA : QUEER LENS: A (STUNNING) HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY Exhibit
On June 17th, the GETTY MUSEUM in LA opened its second queer exhibit this summer Queer Lens: A History of Photograph is the first major exhibition in the United States to survey the history of photography through a queer lens, bringing together a variety of works that explore photography’s profound role in shaping and affirming…
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The new LGBTQ+ ARCHIVE will save our queer history that The Orange Man in The White House wants to wipe out
One of the many tragic obsessions of The Orange Man in The White House is to rewrite history:black, gay, trans etc etc. It’s a scary prospect, but then we are learning rapidly that every word he utters is all about making him the arbiter of how the whole world should be : past, present and…
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THE BIG JOHNSON :the wild life and bizarre death of LGBTQ Drag legend DEAN JOHNSON premieres at Slamdance
It may come as a shock to those who knew (and loved) the larger-than-life cross-dressing musician and NY nightlife star for the best part of three decades, DEAN JOHNSON was actually the son of a preacher man. Now, THE BIG JOHNSON tells the incredible story of this underground rock star and sex worker, AND…
