Gay Icons and History: March 2010
Phil Black, vintage female impersonator
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | March 31, 2010 | 11:30 AM |Another gem I picked up along my surfing adventures, a trans performer bringing joy and entertainment to a private suburban New York gathering, ca. 1950s....Read More
German Wrestlers, early 20th century
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | March 30, 2010 | 11:30 AM |Sweet shot of German athletes practicing together in pre-World War II Europe....Read More
Vintage Vocabulary Builder: Mollycoddle
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | March 29, 2010 | 9:30 AM |Early 20th century humorous postcard explaining the origin of this expression. (Love his corset!)...Read More
Turn of the 20th Century Lesbian Tango
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | March 28, 2010 | 2:30 PM |Found these unusual, beautiful prints of early 20th century female tango partners at Pat Dances Too on ebay. (Click images to see them full size.)...Read More
Johnny Weir and the Ari Fleischer Effect
Filed by Patricia Nell Warren | March 26, 2010 | 4:00 PM |After his debut on "Dancing With the Stars" the other night, Evan Lysacek was asked about Johnny Weir... and skated down the middle with his answer. He said, "We're just acquaintances really. I think I've only had two personal conversations...Read More
Fun with Grass Skirts: WWII photo
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | March 26, 2010 | 12:30 PM |Shipmates on leave? Friends fooling around? Actors in a play? It's a lovely mystery to me....Read More
Abnormals Anonymous
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | March 25, 2010 | 11:30 AM |I guess Step One is to admit that you're a knitter?...Read More
Miss Hercules: vintage strong-woman
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | March 24, 2010 | 10:30 AM |Just love this, but don't know a thing about her....Read More
Sly Sailors: WWII photo
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | March 23, 2010 | 12:30 PM |Amazing how many of these homoerotic WWII images keep turning up. I love the looks on their handsome young faces....Read More
Chuck Nicholls: How to conduct a personal life
Filed by Father Tony | March 22, 2010 | 4:30 PM |There are many recipes for how to conduct a personal life in south Florida. Discarding the unsavory ones that use only the ingredients of self-medication with liberal measures of laziness, I had been told that Fort Lauderdale's Chuck Nicholls had...Read More
Re-introducing Effie Dropbottom: vintage drag humor
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | March 22, 2010 | 11:30 AM |Found this intriguing comedienne, but not much info available, just this album cover and a grainy photo that's after the jump. Anyone know this 1950s-era performer?...Read More
Gay Boy pulp
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | March 21, 2010 | 11:30 AM |Pulpaliciously delicious cover, replete with misplaced apostrophe and terrible art. Just. Can't. Get. Enough. Pulp....Read More
Shock schlock: Vintage bisexual B movie
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | March 19, 2010 | 11:30 AM |Sexploitation at its tacky best and worst, The Runaway featured a young Gilda Texter, perhaps best known for her work as a Hollywood costume and wardrobe designer....Read More
Shock schlock: Vintage lesbian B movie
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | March 18, 2010 | 12:30 PM |A deliciously tacky and noxious 1965 sexploitation feature, listed on IMDB as Chained Girls aka "Caged Girls." Filmed in Greenwich Village!...Read More
From the TG Archive: Media, War and Life History
Filed by Guest Blogger | March 17, 2010 | 7:30 PM |Editor's note: Cristan Williams, the director of the Transgender Foundation of America, a transgender nonprofit based in Houston, Texas, is sharing some of the recent acquisitions of her organization's historical collection. The TG Archive has acquired rare original newspaper from...Read More
Trust, part two
Filed by Antonia D'orsay | March 16, 2010 | 3:00 PM |Hi, and welcome back. For those just joining us, we are in the midst of a conversation on trust. Specifically, the issue of trust in the larger LGBT community. Earlier we talked about how many people mistake a deep mistrust...Read More
Kiss of Androgyny: vintage poster
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | March 16, 2010 | 10:30 AM |A much-reproduced 1920's poster for Ramos-Pinto wines, titled "The Kiss." According to this article, the company continues to use this image on some of its wines today....Read More
WWII era photo: Spanky and his gang of one
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | March 12, 2010 | 3:30 PM |An interesting image I stumbled across in a collection of WWII sailor memorabilia. I guess it's anchors aweigh at sea and bottoms up on land....Read More
Vintage physique magazine
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | March 11, 2010 | 12:30 PM |Maybe I'm getting old, but I still prefer magazines like this which leave a little bit to the imagination. At least on their covers. By the way, does anyone know the artist who drew the illustration on the left? Looks...Read More
History: The Furnished Means By Which We Suffer
Filed by Guest Blogger | March 10, 2010 | 11:30 AM |Editors' Note: Guest blogger Ryan Secord is a recent graduate from Michigan State University where he studied political science and journalism. He worked for the Capital News Service as a state and federal government correspondent, the Hillsdale Daily News, and...Read More
Art Deco Lesbiana
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | March 09, 2010 | 12:30 PM |Sad that I don't know the artist (perhaps some reader does?), but looks to be early 1920s, and just rare enough to be a gem....Read More
1954 African-American Transwomen
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | March 06, 2010 | 4:00 PM |In honor of Black History Month, I did research on some of the sexy pin-ups that appeared in 1950s magazines for African American audiences. Found several gems, including these fascinating scans. Source: 1954 Black History As Seen Through Magazines Another...Read More
Cool Black Camp: vintage Jet magazine
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | March 04, 2010 | 11:30 AM |A bittersweet flashback to torpedo bras and the struggle for equality. Most amazing to me is that, overall, the public face of Black community seemed more tolerant of sexual diversity in the 1950s than it seems today. Maybe the realities...Read More
Corinne Hunt and Her 1014 Olympic Medals
Filed by Patricia Nell Warren | March 03, 2010 | 5:00 PM |As Women's History Month dawns, I can't leave the subject of the Winter Olympics without celebrating the medals themselves, and the woman artist who created them. Along with the rest of the Outsports.com Vancouver-coverage team, I spent two weeks watching...Read More
