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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
This week President Joe Biden issued a formal proclamation Wednesday on the 70th anniversary of the Lavender Scare, a moral panic that caused investigations and firings of thousands of known or suspected gay men and lesbians who were working for the U.S. government. It was one of the darkest and scariest periods that would … Continue reading
A Hard Man Is Good To Find! is a great new exhibition on at The Photographers Gallery, London, documenting queer male photography in London during the twentieth century. Such photography doesn’t actually exist in the public realm in great quantities, partly because it was illegal under the Obscene Publications Act 1857, and … Continue reading