Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterAngela Davis the black lesbian radical scholar who went from political prisoner to revolutionary icon, to public intellectual is being celebrated in a brand new exhibition opening in San Francisco’s GLBT History Museum soon. Curated by collector Lisbet Tellefsen and historian Amy Sueyoshi the Exhibit considers some of the roles Davis has played in the American … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterAny gay man of a ‘certain age’ who grew up in the Chicago area in the 1970’s & 1980’s would have most certainly spent some summer days at Belmont Rocks the city’s lakeside gay cruising area. On a large grassy expanse punctuated on one side by a series of tiered limestone blocks that separated the … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterThere is a new Exhibit of the work of PETER HUJAR a quintessential East Village photographer in the 1970’s and 1980’s whose stark black and white images beautifully captured a shifting generation who would soon be almost decimated by the AIDS pandemic, which would kill him too. The show, Peter Hujar: Speed of Life, looks … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterIn the 1950’s and 1960’s the Royal Canadian Mounted Police created a vicious campaign to root out all gay men and women from their ranks and also from the military and cvil service. Faced with the reality of a lack of resources to conduct blanket surveillance on all suspects, they invented that device that … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterBefore Ken Russell became the Oscar nominated director of such classic movies such as Women in Love, The Devils and The Who’s rock-opera Tommy, he was a young photographer in the mid-fifties working for British newspapers and magazines such as Picture Post. For one of his assignments in 1955 he was commissioned to take photographs of a new … Continue reading
