Gay Icons and History: December 2010
Why Our Sex History Matters: An Allen Ginsberg story
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | December 31, 2010 12:00 PM |You know how I feel about sex history? I love it! Sex history is human history. Because so much of LGBT/Queer/Leather sex history has been systematically destroyed and censored in the name of God and country, it feels particularly vital...Read More
If Frank Kameny Was a Pop Star
Filed by Guest Blogger | December 30, 2010 1:00 PM |Editors' Note: Guest blogger Zack Rosen is a Leo who is losing his hair. He blogs at The New Gay. You know who Madonna is, right? Or Lady Gaga? Can you recite every line of Kathy Griffin's latest standup routine...Read More
Leather Hall of Fame: 2011 Inductees
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | December 30, 2010 11:30 AM |I'm honored to be a member of the Board of Governors of the Leather Hall of Fame, a project devoted to honoring pansexual leather/fetish/BDSM history by selecting three individuals each year whose contributions to our Community shaped our growth. The...Read More
Love on a Pedestal: Antique lesbian erotica
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | December 29, 2010 2:30 PM |Guessing this is ca. 1890-1910, a French cabinet photo loaded with period symbolism. The short feral girl (representing primal woman) worships the elegant goddess (representing human perfection) on a pedestal (representing, um, a pedestal). And then there's that cute tiger...Read More
Marching for Gay Rights in NYC: Historic photo
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | December 27, 2010 9:30 AM |This photo was taken in Greenwich Village, NY, ca. 1970, shortly after the Stonewall riot. A beautiful blast from the past. Check out all the hippie-chic facial hair and raggy jeans. Also love seeing the tot in the stroller being...Read More
Milk Photographer Jerry Pritikin is OK with HRC at Castro Landmark
Filed by Karen Ocamb | December 20, 2010 6:00 PM |Photographer Jerry Pritikin emailed me saying he has a different opinion from those who are upset that the Human Rights Campaign is setting up an “Action Center” in the storefront once occupied by the late LGBT hero, Harvey Milk. I...Read More
Coy Gay Canoodling, with Beard: Antique postcard
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | December 20, 2010 9:30 AM |I think of this card (from ca. 1900-20) as "The Beard: An Instructional Tableau." Note Mr. Baldy's missing leg; note doll-like woman's skirt raised towards Mr. Hairy Beary. Infer that Mr. Baldy's tickling his toes on his secret mustachioed beau....Read More
Heads Up! Vintage gay erotica
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | December 16, 2010 11:30 AM |Rare to find such a sexually sweet, suggestive-without-being-in-your-face yet intensely erotic image of gay intimacy. The longer you look the hotter it gets! I'm hoping someone may recognize the photographer (I don't think this was amateur, but it's hard to...Read More
10 in '10: Freedom to Marry's Top Ten Moments for Marriage in 2010
Filed by Guest Blogger | December 16, 2010 8:30 AM |Editors' Note: Evan Wolfson is founder and Executive Director of Freedom to Marry, the campaign to win marriage nationwide. In 2004, TIME magazine named Evan one of the "100 most influential people in the world." It's been a whirlwind year...Read More
Homosexuality, the LP: Vintage album art
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | December 10, 2010 10:30 AM |Wow. One album covers the entire subject, eh? There better not be any Broadway show tunes on it is all I can say. Do any Projectors remember this album or its purpose? The February 1967 edition of Billboard announced its...Read More
The Bushy Hustitute: Vintage gay pulp fiction
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | December 09, 2010 11:30 AM |I really don't know where to begin with this one. First, there's that title. OMG. And did he manscape himself down to that Christmas tree sticking out of his shorts, or is he turning into a bear one pubic hair...Read More
Cary Grant's 1940s Tijuana Bible
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | December 07, 2010 4:30 PM |Another intriguing title from the days when these cheap, usually poorly drawn pornographic tracts were traded and sold to World War II soldiers. Wish I knew if there was gay sex behind the cover or if this Tijuana Bible shows...Read More
HRC to move into Harvey Milk's store
Filed by Bil Browning | December 07, 2010 10:30 AM |What fresh hell is this? HRC is moving into Harvey Milk's old camera shop in the Castro? Methinks "insult" is a little too dramatic understated. In what some grassroots gay activists are calling an "insult," the Human Rights Campaign is...Read More
Idolization of the Male Form: 1890 Photo
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | December 05, 2010 11:30 AM |Victorianism's preoccupation with masculine ideals, in body and mind, led to innumerable images of naked or near-naked body builders, muscle men, weight lifters, and other athletes. Which is a good thing, because they so viciously suppressed gay erotica that such...Read More
May-December Romance, ca. 1950s: Vintage photo
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | December 02, 2010 11:30 AM |A very happy find, this super hot photo from a private estate sale. Totally love the way the older man is holding the younger one. You can sense what's coming next, off camera! Plus the tucked in plaid shirt and...Read More
Once, When We Were Heroes
Filed by Mark S. King | December 01, 2010 8:30 AM |On any other day you might be excused for skipping an HIV related posting. But not today. World AIDS Day demands we pay attention to our history and what happened 30 years ago, when something terrible began and our best...Read More
