Original German Poster What actually makes a person a Gay Icon? Glamour, flamboyance, power over adversity, androgyny? Gay Icons are sometimes tragic, sometimes martyred figures, a personality that represents the paradox of fame, which uplifts and empowers the idols it … [Read more...]
#RIP: French Actor, Jean-Paul Belmondo
Jean-Paul Belmondo's final credits rolled today. The great French actor is gone at 88 years old. ''Charm is the ability to make others forget that you look as you do.'' Jean-Paul He was a Style Icon, an accomplished actor and producer, and, well, I like looking at photographs of … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Actor, Jean Seberg
November 13, 1938- Jean Seberg. What makes a person a Gay Icon? Glamour, flamboyance, power over adversity, androgyny? Gay Icons are sometimes tragic, sometimes martyred figures, a personality … [Read more...]
Shirtless
Here's the thing, cinema fans: A T-shirt company in the DUMBO* section of Brooklyn is being sued by the New York Times for making New York Herald-Tribune T-shirts like the one worn by Jean Seberg in this clip from the classic 1960 Jean-Luc Godard nouvelle-vaguer Breathless. The … [Read more...]