Gay Icons and History: February 2010
Olympics Victory for a Great Gay Coach
Filed by Patricia Nell Warren | February 27, 2010 4:00 PM |We get all worked up about the out athletes who win -- but the out coaches and other powerful figures who are indispensable to sports success should get a tremendous amount of credit too. At the Winter Games in Vancouver,...Read More
Vintage Gay Valentine: 1920s postcard
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | February 27, 2010 11:30 AM |You certainly don't see these every day. Really happy to dig it out of someone's eBay collection of 1920s postcards. Love the way someone cut and pasted their photobooth pic on it. Now I wonder which one is the sweet...Read More
Girls with balls: Vintage baseball pic
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | February 26, 2010 9:30 AM |Don't know anything about this pre-1920 photo other than it is fabulous. Like so much of women's history, the story of female baseball teams is almost forgotten....Read More
Natural Male Affection: Vintage Photo
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | February 24, 2010 10:30 AM |One of the most disturbing aspects of post-modern homophobia is that it has placed so many restrictions on how men are supposed to interact. I love coming across photos from my parents' and grandparents' generations, when men could still openly...Read More
Jesse's Journal: Gay Resistance, the Lessons of History
Filed by Jesse Monteagudo | February 23, 2010 5:00 PM |Resistance takes many forms. For some of us, it means staging a demonstration or starting a political action group. For others, it means being defiantly different in a society that hates difference. As John Rechy and Charley Shively noted more...Read More
Vintage drag: Boyz will be Can-Can Girlz
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | February 23, 2010 9:30 AM |Love this merry 1930s cabinet card. Shall we dance?...Read More
Photo: G. Harrold Carswell - 1st Gay/Bi Supreme Court Nominee
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | February 21, 2010 11:30 AM |Fascinating and collectible relic of gay history, this vintage photo of Judge Harrold Carswell, selling on eBay right now. Had to wiki him to find out why the vendor listed "gay interest" in the title, and very glad I did....Read More
Vintage photo: 1920s lesbian couple
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | February 20, 2010 10:00 AM |Charming vintage image ...and I think we know who's the daddy....Read More
Vintage Lobby Card: Lesbian Classic Movie
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | February 18, 2010 11:30 AM |A rare Mexican lobby card for the ground-breaking 1968 movie, Therese and Isabel, a film about the lesbian awakening of two Swiss boarding school girls....Read More
NYC Grand Marshals Announced
Filed by Father Tony | February 16, 2010 5:00 PM |Heritage of Pride (HOP) has this week, in two separate statements, announced the names of its grand marshals for the 2010 New York City Pride march. One name caused a dust up, the other none at all....Read More
Vintage drag: 1920s chamber maid
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | February 15, 2010 11:30 AM |Sad that the background stories on images like this are lost to history but delighted, at least, to find this 1920's cabinet card. Was this a stage actor in role? Or someone just doing what came naturally? Thousands, perhaps even...Read More
Creating Change with a Kid
Filed by Paige Schilt | February 14, 2010 5:30 PM |Long before my son was born, my dear mother turned to me and said, "your kids are going to turn out so conservative." I think this was her special way of saying that 1) my activist lifestyle is a little...Read More
Vintage Photo: Women at Work
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | February 13, 2010 10:00 AM |Fabulous old photo of three non-nonsense gals working on an engine in Los Angeles. Not sure when it was taken but guessing before or during World War II. Print it, frame it, and give it to the female mechanic in...Read More
Lawrence King Killed Two Years Ago: Looking Back and Lessons Learned
Filed by Waymon Hudson | February 12, 2010 10:00 AM |Editor's Note: I commented on the effects of Lawrence King's murder on the one year anniversary of his death last year. I wanted to repost the bulk of it with more thoughts on this sad day, as well as a...Read More
Funky 50s lesbian sleeze
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | February 10, 2010 5:30 PM |Proving that in a world without men, all lesbians walk around in their underwear....Read More
Birthright
Filed by Antonia D'orsay | February 10, 2010 11:00 AM |Let's pause for a moment and look at one thing, though. One thing that reaches outside that, so that people know why it is that I note, casually and consistently, the importance of our recognizing the kinship we have with each other within the LGBT. It starts when we are kids.Read More
Vintage erotica: beautiful dreamers
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | February 09, 2010 11:30 AM |Postcard from the 1920s. Their sweetness and affection say so much more than I could with words....Read More
