via Alexandre Felipe Présente/YouTube January 20, 1943- Janis Joplin: "You know you've got it, if it makes you feel good." An indelible icon of the 1960s, and a sort of Gay Icon too, Janis Joplin had affairs with women, men, and Southern Comfort. She would cruise the … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Writer, Patricia Highsmith
Highsmith in a cameo in Strangers On A Train via YouTube January 19, 1921 - Patricia Highsmith: "The only difference between us and heterosexuals is what we do in bed." Patricia Highsmith is much on my mind these days, after recently re-watching Carol (2015), … [Read more...]
#QWERRRKOUT Tuesday: “I Take Vintage Glamour & Combine It with Horror” Elizabeth Crawford
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...]
#BornThisDay: Gay Icon, Cary Grant
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) via YouTube January 18, 1904– Cary Grant: "In my earlier career, I patterned myself on a combination of Englishmen: Rex Harrison, Noël Coward, and especially Jack Buchanan, who impressed me as a character actor. He always looked … [Read more...]
Happy 50th Anniversary to ‘Deep Throat,’ Porn’s Most Influential Film
As we documented in Inside Deep Throat, a half century ago, a group of New Yorkers traveled to Florida to film star Linda Lovelace in what would become … [Read more...]
#Flashback1947: The Black Dahlia
Bundled up because of the cold weather that had held Los Angeles residents in its grip for several days, Betty Bersinger and her three-year-old daughter Anne were walking on Norton Street in the Leimert Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. Midway down the block Bersinger noticed … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Gay Icon, Eartha Kitt
Photo via YouTube screen-grab January 17, 1927 - Eartha Kitt: "I fall in love with Myself. And I want someone to share with me." Eartha Kitt has precisely the qualities that make for a true Gay Icon: A history of anguish, abandonment and alienation, mixed with a campy … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Gay Icon, Ethel Merman
In Girl Crazy, NY Public Library Archives January 16, 1908– Ethel Merman: "I can hold a note as long as the Chase National Bank." Jacob J. Lew, President Barack Obama's Treasury secretary, proposed the idea of putting Harriet Tubman, a former slave and … [Read more...]
#QueerQuote: “In 40 Years, the Computer Will Do Away With Work; Everyone Will be an Artist”. – Cecil Beaton in 1969
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...]
#BornThisDay: Actor / Songwriter / Author, Ivor Novello
Photo from BBC via YouTube January 15, 1893– Ivor Novello: "Lovemaking is an art which must be studied and practiced." After seeing Robert Altman's bright and brilliant Academy Award-nominated film Gosford Park (2001) for the third time, I had to … [Read more...]
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