Since the 1970s, Mariette Pathy Allen has been documenting the trans, drag, and gender diverse communities around the world. Now she's getting a well-deserved retrospective. From June 1 to July 30, Culture Lab LIC will present Breaking Boundaries: 50 Years of Images. Allen … [Read more...]
#FlashBack72: 51 Years Ago, Burt Reynolds Got Naked for Cosmopolitan Magazine
Photo by Scavullo, via YouTube Burt Reynolds (1936 – 2018), stretched out on a bearskin rug, tanned, and much like the beast beneath him, he is very, very hairy. Veins bulge on his arms, one of which is conveniently placed in front of his special place. He looks amused. … [Read more...]
On Her Birthday, One World of Wonder Writer’s Favorite Diane Keaton Performances
2012, Wikimedia Commons Diane Keaton: "If You're Happy, You're Mentally Ill." In the 1970s, I identified with her so much that I had a fantasy that I was noted in the press as: "The Male Diane Keaton". At World of Wonder, we love to celebrate women, especially women … [Read more...]
#WomenWeLove: Remembering Film Great, Louise Brooks
Photograph: Eugene Robert Richee, 1927, public domain November 14, 1906 – Louise Brooks: “The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body, but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.” One of my … [Read more...]
#ArtDept: Remembering Robert Rauschenberg (& His Lovers) On His 97th Birthday
1968, Photographer Unknown, Public Domain I have a passion for 20th century American Art. I just can't help it. I have also had a longtime fascination with New York City of the 1950s and 1960s, when these geniuses produced astonishing work while in the closet, while their … [Read more...]
Check Out Superstar Photog Mike Ruiz’s Annual Dog Rescue Calendar “Mutts & Muscles 2023”
Celeb photographer Mike Ruiz's 2023 calendar Mutts & Muscles is 16 months of perfection that will put a smile on your face every day of the new year. It makes for a fab holiday, birthday, or Valentine's Day gift for that … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Tommy Tucker, the Cross-Dressing Patriotic Squirrel
NMAH Archives Center, public domain September 12, 1942 - Tommy T. Tucker: "All I wanted was to slay for the USA!" Patriotism is the feeling of love, devotion and sense of attachment to your homeland and alliance with other citizens who share the same sentiment, with … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Jean Cocteau
1923 portrait, Wikimedia Commons, public domain July 5, 1889 - Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau: "Life is a horizontal fall." He was a poet, writer, designer, playwright, artist and filmmaker. While still in his teens, Cocteau began to date older, well-connected … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Writer/ Photographer/ Railroad Historian, Charles Clegg
Clegg (R) with his partner Lucious Bebee, public domain June 30, 1916 - Charles Clegg Clegg is mostly remembered now as the lifelong romantic partner of famed railroad writer Lucius Beebe and was a co-author of many of Beebe's best-known books. Clegg grew up in … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Photographer, James Van Der Zee
Self-Portrait, 1918, public domain June 29, 1886- James Van Der Zee: "Being an artist, I had an artist's instincts. You can see the picture before it's taken; then it's up to you to get the camera to see." For several years, Van Der Zee played piano with Fletcher … [Read more...]
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