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#QueerQuote: “Impropriety is the Soul of Wit.” – W. Somerset Maugham

By Stephen Rutledge on January 26, 2023 3:03 am

#QueerQuote: “Impropriety is the Soul of Wit.” – W. Somerset Maugham

W. Somerset Maugham was a spy, prolific writer and physician who took on the taboo subjects of adultery and sexual jealousy and reinvented the spy novel. Maintaining the habit of writing for several hours each morning, Maugham was able to produce 30 plays, 24 novels, and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books, Born This Day, Entertainment, Gay, LBGTQ, Life

#QueerQuote: “For Most of History, Anonymous Was a Woman.” – Virginia Woolf

By Stephen Rutledge on January 25, 2023 11:55 am

#QueerQuote: “For Most of History, Anonymous Was a Woman.” – Virginia Woolf

Portrait by George Charles Beresford, 1902, public domain In the summer of 1998, the moment I put down Michael Cunningham's The Hours, I went to my bookshelf and picked out Mrs. Dalloway to follow the connection. Just a few weeks ago, I purchased a new edition that includes … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books, Born This Day, Culture, Entertainment, Gay, History, LBGTQ, Lesbian, Life

#WomenWeLove: Remembering Sharon Tate on What Would Have Been Her 80th Birthday

By Stephen Rutledge on January 24, 2023 12:12 pm

#WomenWeLove: Remembering Sharon Tate on What Would Have Been Her 80th Birthday

Valley Of The Dolls Publicity Shot, 1967 Sharon Tate (1943 - 1969) ''My whole life has been decided by fate...'' Once Upon A Time In Hollywood is my favorite film of 2019, a great year for films. It works as a wistful comic fairytale, but also as a historical drama in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Born This Day, Celebs, Entertainment, LBGTQ, Life, Movies

Were Golden Age Stars, Randolph Scott & Cary Grant, “Merry Bachelors”?

By Stephen Rutledge on January 23, 2023 3:33 pm

Were Golden Age Stars, Randolph Scott & Cary Grant, “Merry Bachelors”?

Early 1930s, Public Domain One of the most handsome of leading men from The First Golden Era of Hollywood, Randolph Scott was born on this very day, January 23rd, 125 years ago. Interesting that his very special pal, Cary Grant, has a birthday just a few days earlier, I would … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Born This Day, Entertainment, LBGTQ, Life, Movies

#WomenWeLove: French Actor, Jean Moreau

By Stephen Rutledge on January 23, 2023 1:28 pm

#WomenWeLove: French Actor, Jean Moreau

Jeanne Moreau (1928 - 2017 ): “Nostalgia is when you want things to stay the same. I know so many people staying in the same place. And I think, my God, look at them! They’re death before they die. That’s a terrible risk. Living is risking.” Moreau was the very essence of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Culture, Entertainment, Fashion, LBGTQ, Misc, Movies

#QueerQuote: “It is Better to be a Flamboyant Failure Than Any Kind of Benign Success.” – Malcolm McLaren

By Stephen Rutledge on January 22, 2023 12:23 pm

#QueerQuote: “It is Better to be a Flamboyant Failure Than Any Kind of Benign Success.” – Malcolm McLaren

You kids might have heard that I have a serious magazine jones. It all began when I was nine-years-old and I got a subscription to Variety, the showbiz trade paper. I was already very concerned with the weekly grosses of the popular films and I perused the casting notices … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Ads & Mags, Art, Born This Day, Culture, Design, Entertainment, Fashion, Life, Music

Remembering Russian Filmmaker, Sergei Eisenstein on His 125th Birthday

By Stephen Rutledge on January 22, 2023 11:11 am

Remembering Russian Filmmaker, Sergei Eisenstein on His 125th Birthday

  Film History class, I loved it. A big "If I could do it over again" for me would be why I chose Theatre over Film for my undergraduate degree. I received better marks for my work in Film classes than in my own major. Ah, youth. Soon, we will all be taking classes in Russian … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Born This Day, Culture, Entertainment, Gay, History, Life, Movies, Politics, Travel

#WomenWeLOve: Gay Icon, Eartha Kitt

By Stephen Rutledge on January 17, 2023 12:59 pm

#WomenWeLOve: Gay Icon, Eartha Kitt

Photo by Boris Carmi, 1959, via Wikimedia Commons Eartha Kitt (1927 - 2008) has precisely the qualities that make for a true Gay Icon: A history of anguish, abandonment and alienation, mixed with a campy and sexually audacious stage act along with the necessary elements … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Born This Day, Celebs, Culture, Entertainment, LBGTQ, Life, Misc, Music, On Stage, Politics, TV & Video

#QueerQuote: “The Truly Fashionable Are Beyond Fashion.”- Cecil Beaton

By Stephen Rutledge on January 14, 2023 10:25 am

#QueerQuote: “The Truly Fashionable Are Beyond Fashion.”- Cecil Beaton

Cecil Beaton self-portrait, with his Rolleiflex reflected in a mirror of the Jain temple, Calcutta, Wikimedia Commons "After dinner at Dickie Buckle's, David talked of the coming of the Golden Age. He had read many philosophers and has thought a great deal. In the next 40 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Books, Celebs, Culture, Entertainment, Gay, LBGTQ, Real Estate Porn

#MustWatch: “Who Killed Teddy Bear?” with Sal Mineo

By Stephen Rutledge on January 10, 2023 11:44 am

#MustWatch: “Who Killed Teddy Bear?” with Sal Mineo

Sal Mineo was twice nominated for an Academy Award. He enjoyed success as a stage director and a recording artist, but he is mostly remembered for his performance in a single film and for the brutal murder that ended his life just as he was on the verge of reinventing himself and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Celebs, Entertainment, Gay, History, LBGTQ, Movies

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