Queer

“Unknown woman, 1930s” (detail)–is this Francis Bacon in drag? In April of this year, the British newspaper The Guardian ran a gallery of photos by…

In the early ‘90s a small independent underground comic by Diane DiMassa featuring a rumpled, wild-eyed, overcaffeinated “homicidal lesbian terrorist” was frequently listed among Riot…

In 1898, heartbroken Cambridge student Aleister Crowley’s love affair with Herbert Charles Jerome Pollitt had ended and he looked to his poetry for comfort. A…

When the movie Frances Ha came out, named for its choreographer protagonist, I had hoped for a renewed interest in modern dance–perhaps a small, young…

Punk pioneer, transexual trailblazer and Stonewall Riots veteran, Jayne County is a national treasure. However, the most recent coverage of County has not been on…

Everyone knows that one of the best things about jeans is that they conform to your body over time. The more you wear them, the…

These fabulous pulp covers come from the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library‘s collection of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer materials representing “the fields…

My love of “AM Gold” is well-documented on this blog, and I defend the soft-rock/easy listening genres of the 1970s as an artistic movement of…

Keith Haring at the Tokyo Pop Shop Keith Haring had the great good fortune to become one of the most iconic and recognizable of the…

This morning, Drew Reisinger, Buncombe County, North Carolina’s Register of Deeds became the state’s first government official to seek approval for the granting of same-sex…