#BornThisDay: Dancer, Frederic Franklin

By Stephen Rutledge on June 13, 2022 3:03 am

June 13, 1914 - Frederic Franklin: "The Ballet needs choreographers. Can you name a major American choreographer? I can't. I believe the future of companies and dancers depends on new works and first-rate choreographers. The Royal Ballet just did a new production of Sleeping … [Read more...]

#QueerQuote: “I Wasn’t Really Naked. I Simply Didn’t Have Any Clothes On.”― Josephine Baker

By Stephen Rutledge on June 4, 2022 3:07 am

Baker in Banana Skirt from Folies Bergère production Un Vent de Folie, 1924, Photograph by Lucien Waléry, public domain Endlessly fascinating, but still without a first-rate film biography, Josephine Baker (1906-1975) was born Freda Josephine McDonald. She grew … [Read more...]

#QWERRRKOUT Tuesday: HBO Max ‘Legendary’ Season 3, Theee Voguing Demon, Brooklyn Juicy Mugler (House of Juicy Couture)

By Paisley Dalton on May 10, 2022 10:25 am

QWERRRKOUT TUESDAY just got a whole lot QTer… New queers featured every week! Tag us, take a pic of us and follow us on Instagram at QWERRRKOUT, and you too could be the next, featured QT! YOU … [Read more...]

#QWERRRKOUT Tuesday: HBO Max’s ‘Legendary’ Voguing Femme, Twilight Escada (House of Escada)

By Paisley Dalton on April 26, 2022 10:09 am

#BornThisDay: Dancer/ Actor/ Choreographer/ Director, Robert Helpmann

By Stephen Rutledge on April 9, 2022 3:03 am

Helpmann via The Royal Ballet School Collections, White Lodge Museum April 9, 1909 – Robert Helpmann: "The trouble with nude dancing is that not everything stops when the music stops." Sir Robert Helpmann was an international ballet star and … [Read more...]

#BornThisDay, Impressario, Sergei Diaghilev

By Stephen Rutledge on March 31, 2022 3:03 am

March 31, 1872 - Sergei Diaghilev: ''Of all the wonders that the world had to offer, only art promised immortality.'' Oh, to have lived in Paris in the 1920s, to have seen those performances with jaw-dropping collaborations between composers Igor Stravinsky, Claude Debussy, … [Read more...]

#BornThisDay: The B-52s’ Ricky Wilson

By Stephen Rutledge on March 19, 2022 3:03 am

Photo via YouTube March 19, 1953– Ricky Wilson What do they put in the water in Athens, Georgia? Each member of the greatest party band The B-52s deserves their own #BornThisDay treatment, but together, as a band, they remain true Gay Icons. From the band's … [Read more...]

#BornThisDay: Dancer, Rudolf Nureyev

By Stephen Rutledge on March 17, 2022 3:03 am

Photo via YouTube screen-grab March 17, 1938– Рудо́льф Хаме́тович Нуре́ев: "The main thing is dancing, and before it withers away from my body, I will keep dancing till the last moment, the last drop." I remember my mother sitting me down on an early summer day in … [Read more...]

#BornThisDay: “The God of Dance”, Vaslav Nijinsky

By Stephen Rutledge on March 12, 2022 3:03 am

March 12, 1889 - Vaslav Fomich Nijinsky: I danced frightening things. They were frightened of me and therefore thought that I wanted to kill them. I did not want to kill anyone. I loved everyone, but no one loved me, and therefore I became nervous. He was born on this day in … [Read more...]

#BlackHistoryMonth: Remembering Entertainer Bill “Bojangles” Robinson

By Stephen Rutledge on February 13, 2022 1:55 pm

Photo via YouTube Bill "Bojangles" Robinson (1878 - ) "Everything is copacetic." If I should think of Shirley Temple, and I rarely do, I think of how Bill Robinson was Temple's master teacher and longtime friend who worked with her in six films. Robinson had already … [Read more...]