queer history
President Biden issues a Proclamation on the 70th Anniversary of the LAVENDER SCARE one of the very worse periods in gay history
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…
A HARD MAN IS GOOD TO FIND! a bold new exhibition charting over 60 years of queer photography of the male physique.
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…
Black Miami-Dade Presents: Give Them Their Flowers—An Exhibit of Black LGBTQ+ Miami History
Give Them Their Flowers is a first-of-its-kind exhibit to celebrate Miami’s Black LGBTQ+ history and comes at a critical time when Black and queer histories are under attack in Florida. This exhibit pays homage to Miami’s Black queer history by merging historical research, archival imagery, artifacts, oral histories, video and portraits of Black…
Help complete ‘Dragstrip 66: The Frockumentary : a crucial part of our queer history
Trip down the rabbit hole of time to experience Dragstrip 66, a monthly underground nightclub in Silver Lake, Los Angeles that ran for an unprecedented 20 years (1993-2013). Dragstrip 66 was so much more than just a nightclub. It was a wellspring of creativity, it was a community of artists and survivors, and…
