Diana Vreeland (1903 - ) was never actually a rich woman, she was never a really beautiful woman, and yet she created beauty and she created wealth. She discovered fashion at an early age. Yet, she didn't start in the business until she was in her 30s, and then it was sort of an … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Entertainer, Lola Falana
1972, CBS Television via Wikimedia Commons September 11, 1942 - Lola Falana: "One day I'm going to be a middle-aged lady and I don't want people to think I committed a crime or that I've got some strange disease. I don't believe in time. The past you can't account for and … [Read more...]
#QueerQuote: “Men Who Never Get Carried Away Should Be.” – Capitalist Tool, Malcolm Forbes
The personality trait I most deplore in others? Entitlement. Malcolm Stevenson Forbes probably means nothing to anyone under 65 years old. Yet, when he died in 1990 at 70 years old, he was one of the most famous men in the USA thanks to his shameless showoff smarts about … [Read more...]
#QueerQuote: “Movies Are So Rarely Great Art That If We Cannot Appreciate Great Trash We Have Very Little Reason To Be Interested In Them.” – Pauline Kael
1968 portrait via Wikimedia Commons I was such an unusual little child; receiving a subscription to The New Yorker magazine as a gift from an aunt when I was 10 years old. She knew. I started with the cartoons, but by the time I was 12, I was also devoted to the theatre and … [Read more...]
#WomenWeLove: Pioneering Photographer, Margaret Bourke-White
1955, photo via Wikimedia Commons LIFE was an American magazine published weekly from 1936 to 1972. It arrived at my house on Wednesdays and I was anxious to get to the mailbox when I got home from school. LIFE was noted for the quality of its photography. It was the very … [Read more...]
#QueerQuote: “Imperfection is Beauty, Madness is Genius & It’s Better to be Absolutely Ridiculous Than Absolutely Boring.” – Marilyn Monroe
Photo from a late 1953 issue of Modern Screen magazine, taken for River Of No Return (1954), public domain When Norma Jeane Mortenson (1926 - 1962) became Marilyn Monroe she was no Meryl Streep, but she sure had that certain something. Pauline Kael, who wrote for The New … [Read more...]
That Time Walt Whitman Shilled for Levi’s
I remember a decade and half ago being so surprised that Walt Whitman had become a jeans spokesperson. Yes, that's his own rich voice reading his poem America. I wasn't certain how I felt about this, but then I thought bare chested gay poetry "...full of manly pride and … [Read more...]
Dylan Mulvaney Has a Positive Message After Weeks of Transphobic Hatred Over Bud Light
TikTok star Dylan Mulvaney felt the full force of some conservatives' fantastical hatred of trans people this month after a seemingly innocuous partnership with Bud Light turned into a weeks-long fiasco that included bomb threats to breweries. She returned after she gave the … [Read more...]
#QueerQuote: “Rock Hudson Let His Gay Agent Marry Him Off to His Secretary Because He Didn’t Want People to Get the Right Idea.” –Anthony Perkins
Anthony Perkin’s longtime friend, artist Don Bachardy once wrote: “Of course we’d heard he’d married. I thought that was just awfully odd behavior for him. Did he honestly think that marriage to Berry Berenson could make him a heterosexual?“ Perkins had affairs with a few … [Read more...]
#QueerQuote: “I Was Looking for Beauty With a Capital B. & I Couldn’t Find It In Indiana.” – Janet Flanner
Flanner by Berenice Abbott, 1925, public domain Hey kids, have I ever mentioned that I have had a perpetual subscription to The New Yorker for 57 years? My aunt gave me a year's worth of the magazine for my birthday when 10 years old. Rather heady stuff for one so young, and … [Read more...]
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