queer history
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The BBC’s First Homosexual : when being queer in the UK was illegal and in the closet
It’s probably tough for Gen Z and gay Millennials to even imagine a time when everywhere in the world it was not only illegal to be gay, but also socially and morally unacceptable. Like in the UK in 1954, one year after a very young Queen Elizabeth just ascended to the throne, when the country’s…
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‘From Buggery to Blasphemy: Gay News UK’ Revisited by Bob Workman and Keith Howes
In London in the 1970’s (yes, some of us are that old!), the burgeoning gay community, still reeling from the fact that in 1969 homosexuality was finally decriminalized (well, for men 21 and over) and they were desperate to find ways/avenues to celebrate being queer. In those days, almost a decade before personal computers started…
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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…
