From 1742 until at least ‘65, they were the favorite reads at lending libraries in Philadelphia. Ghosts of #QueerHistory still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #LoveWhoYouAre
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@howsexgotscrewedup.bsky.socialFrom 1742 until at least ‘65, they were the favorite reads at lending libraries in Philadelphia. Ghosts of #QueerHistory still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #LoveWhoYouAre
@howsexgotscrewedup.bsky.socialPope Gregory IX's first Inquisitor for Germany, Conrad of Marburg, rooted out & burned alive whole “nests” of #Devil worshippers. Unafraid of killing the innocent, he declared “We would gladly burn 100 if just one of them were guilty.” HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #QueerHistory
@stuartlindenrhodes.bsky.socialManchester 1993 at Rockies. ©StuartLindenRhodes as @LindenArchives Books & Prints at www.pariahpress.com @pariahpress.bsky.social Photographs may not be used without permission. #photography #queerart #queerhistory #gayart #gaybook
@queerazon.bsky.socialHappy Birthday to Montgomery Clift (October 17, 1920)
The acclaimed actor starred in A Place in the Sun, From Here to Eternity, Judgment at Nuremberg, and The Misfits. His private life and relationships have long been part of discussions of queer Hollywood history.
@spf.hear-me.social.ap.brid.gy#queerhistory and selection bias for historians:
"We tend to picture the pre-Stonewall closet as a waiting room, full of gay people biding their time until liberation let them out.... But there were many more Jenkinses than Kamenys: men whose same-sex encounters remained secret, whose […]
@twiqh.bsky.social“Their wings shielded him. Your silence will not shield you.”
1998: Matthew Shepard's Funeral, October 16
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@howsexgotscrewedup.bsky.socialIf I was lucky, I met & held some guy’s eye in the mirror, & we would leave together. Hooking up was all by eye contact in the mirror. Some nights no one said a word. #Trump’s #Project2025 could bring back those days. Ghosts of #QueerHistory still haunt. howsexgotscrewedup.com
@howsexgotscrewedup.bsky.socialGay bars often turned away obvious fairies & #queers went to straight bars under cover. Hundreds of #GayBars appeared & disappeared. Gay men developed a grapevine to let them know what places closed & what places opened. Ghosts of #QueerHistory still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
@prismnpen.bsky.socialJack Fertig is better known as Sister Boom Boom, an early member of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence in San Francisco, an activist street theater group of men in nun drag.
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@prismnpen.bsky.socialI knew the symbolism of pink triangles, knew the relevance to queer resistance, knew they had been appropriated from the Nazis, and didn’t think my design was using the triangle for anything other than good.
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@notchesblog.bsky.socialNew post on NOTCHES: “Gay Print Culture: A History of Gay Magazines in Mexico, Canada, and the United States” by Juan Carlos Mezo González.
🔗 Link to full interview: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4Yt
#NOTCHES #QueerHistory #LGBTQHistory #GayHistory #CanadianHistory #MexicanHistory #AmericanHistory
@stuartlindenrhodes.bsky.socialManchester 2025 at Pride. ©StuartLindenRhodes as @LindenArchives Books & Prints at www.pariahpress.com @pariahpress.bsky.social Photographs may not be used without permission. #photography #queerart #queerhistory #gayart #gaybook @thejohnrylands.bsky.social @queermuseumvienna.bsky.social
@lombardinash.bsky.social🏳️🌈 Before Pride, there was Magnus Hirschfeld. Discover the roots of queer science, activism & literature in Annual of Sexual Intermediaries. A bold, historic collection now in English. www.amazon.com/dp/B0F6NPHJTV #QueerHistory #LGBTQ #Sexology #MagnusHirschfeld
@lombardinash.bsky.social🏳️🌈 Meet Karl Heinrich Ulrichs: the first known gay activist, architect of Pride, and founder of Gay Studies. His legacy lives on in Research on the Riddle of Man-Manly Love,—now available in English. www.amazon.com/dp/B0DY4PZBPV #QueerHistory #LGBTQ #Ulrichs #GayStudies
@twiqh.bsky.socialFive stops in the decade that forged queer LA, from our Rearview Rendezvous interview with John Duran at the WeHo rainbow crosswalk. youtu.be/ImYkNgfMZqA #QueerHistory #WeHo #JohnDuran #TWiQH
@stuartlindenrhodes.bsky.socialManchester 2023 at Pride. ©StuartLindenRhodes as @LindenArchives Books & Prints at www.pariahpress.com @Pariah_Press @pariahpress.bsky.social Photographs may not be used without permission. #photography #queerart #queerhistory #gayart #gaybook contemporaryart
@lgbtq.eurosky.socialDid you know? France's 1791 penal code left consensual same-sex intimacy out of criminal law, centuries before many neighbors followed. A hammered lambda pendant carries the memory of a legal silence that opened room to live #QueerHistory
@howsexgotscrewedup.bsky.socialThese men saved my life. Today, youths all over the country must turn 21 to drink in a bar, AND hitchhiking is against the law in most states. Worse, men who play with & protect young men go to jail for it. Ghosts of #QueerHistory still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
@howsexgotscrewedup.bsky.socialor for any kind of sex outside the vagina, including #bestiality. Just as serious was any attempt to seduce somebody else into those kinds of #SexPlay. Ghosts of #QueerHistory still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
