queer history
Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews ON RAILTON ROAD that recreates a particularly heady period in London’s queer history.
ON RAILTON ROAD ⭐︎⭐︎⭐︎⭐︎ MUSEUM OF THE HOME, HOXTON, LONDON It’s hard to believe, but free housing was once plentiful in London. In the 1970s and 80s, squatting was common and there were empty properties all over the city. Queer groups of people squatted too. One such group, the Brixton Faeries, famously held court…
Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews COMMITMENT TO LIFE ‘the most comprehensive film on the history of AIDS’
Los Angeles, 1981. The dark shadow of the global HIV/AIDS epidemic was just beginning and, for the time being, the thriving queer community members of West Hollywood’s ‘BoysTown’ were living life to the full, blissfully unaware of what lay ahead for them. Emmy Award-Winner film-maker Jeffrey Schwarz begins his latest documentary here and takes…
LGBTQ+ Art, Material Culture & History: STUNNING ONE DAY ONLY Online Auction 8/17
On Thursday, August 17th New York’s SWANN GALLERIES is holding an online auction titled LGBTQ+ Art, Material & History. It will include number of stunning original works of art by Tom of Finland and other artists associated with or influenced by him: including Sadao Hasegawa and Jim French. Also on offer will also be rare material from the early…
Finding Fire Island : a docu-podcast series about its evolution from 1950s fishing village to today’s queer mecca .
Love Fire Island, the Ocean Barrier Island off Long Island, which is such a queer mecca and want to know more about it? Then you are in luck as there is rather a fab brand new docu-podcast series “Finding Fire Island” . In this, you will hear how a sleepy, 19th-century beach town became THE hot…
