Gay Icons and History: May 2011
Inside 'Celluloid Activist: The Life and Times of Vito Russo'
Filed by Jesse Monteagudo | May 28, 2011 12:00 PM |In a new biography, Michael Schiavi pays tribute to Vito Russo, the "Celluloid Closet" lecturer, AIDS activist and founder of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation.Read More
Religious Conversion: Vintage 'Sexploitation'
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | May 27, 2011 10:00 AM |Now, what kind of trouble could a bunch of wholesome religious girls get into inside the walls of a convent? Oh!Read More
Doric Wilson, Theater Great (1939-2011)
Filed by Patricia Nell Warren | May 18, 2011 12:30 PM |When the curly-haired ranch kid from Washington state got off the train in New York City in 1958, nobody would have predicted what a theater great he would become - inspired for decades by that wittiest of urban playwrights, Oscar...Read More
Vintage Cheesy Men's Magazine Cover
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | May 16, 2011 10:30 AM |I post a lot of vintage cheesy men's magazines over on my sex blog and it's interesting to observe how routinely those pubs squeezed references to homosexuality on their covers. I have my own thoughts about it but would love...Read More
CNN Anchor Don Lemon Comes Out: Sends Message to Projectors
Filed by Bil Browning | May 16, 2011 9:30 AM |This morning CNN anchor Don Lemon came out of the closet publicly. In an odd turn of events, Don and I have a connection. I was one of his first Facebook friends back when he actually used the site personally...Read More
Charlotte Cushman: Original Photo, 1870
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | May 15, 2011 11:30 AM |It's always wonderful to find such shining gems from 19th century LGBT history. You can learn more about this fascinating woman on Wiki. She was America's greatest 19th century tragic and dramatic actress during the eras of Edwin Forrest and...Read More
Liberace Reimagined as AIDS Activist in New Short Film
Filed by Toshio Meronek | May 14, 2011 4:00 PM |As Alex reported in January, somewhere in Hollywood, Michael Douglas is smothering on lip gloss to prepare for a heavy make-out session with Matt Damon. Douglas is set to play Liberace (and Damon his young lover) in the gay-for-pay Oscar...Read More
Gay/Lesbian Orgy, ca. 1890 (NSFW)
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | May 12, 2011 11:30 AM |I almost couldn't believe my eyes when I found this wondrous image from the late 19th century. Boys and girls together and yet apart and yet... oh my goodness. It's so rare for photos of explicit male-on-male sex to survive....Read More
Freethinking 1940s: Queer Studies
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | May 09, 2011 9:30 AM |A fascinating eBay find, these three pamphlets (known as "blue books") from E. Haldeman-Julius, a socialist reformer and atheist who published several radical works on sexuality by freethinkers in the 1940s....Read More
Look Back at the Ladder: Historic Lesbian Magazine
Filed by Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | May 03, 2011 4:30 PM |Pretty happy to stumble across this 1957 cover of The Ladder, the first national lesbian publication in the U.S., which served as a voice for the country's first lesbian organization, The Daughters of Bilitis....Read More
