Druid Heights was home to one of the most fascinating chapters in American counterculture and queer history. Then the government got involved.
In our age of imprudent Trumpism, this astute nasty display felt like dainty relics mislaid.
40th anniversary reprinting of a beloved fable-manifesto from the 1970s queer counterculture.
Like every generation before them, millennials endure the scorn of their amnestic elders with obliviousness and eyerolls. I’ll concede that bitterly railing about “kids these days” is the prerogative of anyone over 45 forced to listen to Miley Cyrus, but I truly think intergenerational amity is a worthy and plausible goal—and I’d advise all those baffled by millennial bullshit to start by looking at the margins of youth culture, rather than their commercial representatives, who are obviously appointed by old millionaires anyway. Photographer Poem Baker‘s captivating series,Hymns from the Bedroom, shows a gorgeous array of young people—some bending gender, some subverting conventions, some simply looking beautiful. Her subjects are her friends, and she captures them with a vulnerability that reveals the intimacy of the shoot—an informal affair where she might snap only a few unpretentious candids before putting away the camera. From her site: Hymns from the Bedroom is a personal journal of friends and people I’ve encountered whilst wandering around London. Most of whom are creative twenty-something’s on the threshold of their dreams and ambitions, ranging from performance artists, musicians, actors and fashion designers to strippers, transvestites and those...
“I ♡ trans girls forever!” found in the bathroom at Muddy Waters, San Francisco, California, USA
DYKE A Quarterly of Lesbian Culture and Analysis was published in New York city from 1976 to 1979. This is the annotated online archive featuring articles on lesbian politics, lesbian separatism, lesbian history, famous lesbians, lesbian fashion, lesbian culture, the seventies, lesbian art. Annotated by the original editors.
Queer Zine show opening - the show is up through August 2009. "Yes I Am, But Who Am I Really?" Queercore zines and ephemera from the late 80s through 90s
Come Out! was the first periodical published by the gay and lesbian community after the Stonewall riots in June, 1969. The Gay Liberation Front, one of the first militant activist gay rights organizations birthed by the riots, published Come Out! from their base in New York City
Like every generation before them, millennials endure the scorn of their amnestic elders with obliviousness and eyerolls. I’ll concede that bitterly railing about “kids these days” is the prerogative of anyone over 45 forced to listen to Miley Cyrus, but I truly think intergenerational amity is a worthy and plausible goal—and I’d advise all those baffled by millennial bullshit to start by looking at the margins of youth culture, rather than their commercial representatives, who are obviously appointed by old millionaires anyway. Photographer Poem Baker‘s captivating series,Hymns from the Bedroom, shows a gorgeous array of young people—some bending gender, some subverting conventions, some simply looking beautiful. Her subjects are her friends, and she captures them with a vulnerability that reveals the intimacy of the shoot—an informal affair where she might snap only a few unpretentious candids before putting away the camera. From her site: Hymns from the Bedroom is a personal journal of friends and people I’ve encountered whilst wandering around London. Most of whom are creative twenty-something’s on the threshold of their dreams and ambitions, ranging from performance artists, musicians, actors and fashion designers to strippers, transvestites and those...
A nursing assistant in Vermont reconnected online. Now history is revealed in a photography exhibit in New York City titled "Brave, Beautiful Outlaws."
Hua Hsu discusses “Copy Machine Manifestos,” an ambitious exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum about zine-making and the American cultural underground.
George Dudley's intimate images from pride parades in the late 1970s and early '80s reveal the joy and tension of a movement breaking into the mainstream
Kenneth Anger was a queer underground filmmaker whose bestselling book, Hollywood Babylon, purported to reveal the seamy side of a golden era.
In 1970s USSR, Soviet youths were busting out some top looks. Hippies, metal heads, bikers and punks galore.
An iconic drag queen from New Zealand, Carmen Rupe was well known for many things. An activist, runner of a brothel, politician, and performer, her life was a full one. Though the people within her community were very fond of her, and she is remembered as one of the great game-changers of the time,
theorists and artists from jack halberstam to peter rehberg consider the fruitful cross-pollination of video, punk, queerness and gender politics since the 1970s, the medium of video has been closely associated with subcultural and countercultural movements. art and music videos in particular have showed great subversive potential, as artists and musicians use the medium to explore and transgress social norms and gender stereotypes. the essays in this publication consider artistic strategies in the context of the history of punk and its offshoots, combining scholarly opinions from the fields of art history, queer theory, media studies, gender studies, postcolonial studies and cultural studies alongside field reports from the practice of alternative archives and visual essays. authors include: kathrin dreckmann, marina grzinic, jack halberstam, josefine hetterich, angela mcrobbie, jennifer ramme, peter rehberg, marion schulze, elfi vomberg and katharina wiedlack. *paperback
Like every generation before them, millennials endure the scorn of their amnestic elders with obliviousness and eyerolls. I’ll concede that bitterly railing about “kids these days” is the prerogative of anyone over 45 forced to listen to Miley Cyrus, but I truly think intergenerational amity is a worthy and plausible goal—and I’d advise all those baffled by millennial bullshit to start by looking at the margins of youth culture, rather than their commercial representatives, who are obviously appointed by old millionaires anyway. Photographer Poem Baker‘s captivating series,Hymns from the Bedroom, shows a gorgeous array of young people—some bending gender, some subverting conventions, some simply looking beautiful. Her subjects are her friends, and she captures them with a vulnerability that reveals the intimacy of the shoot—an informal affair where she might snap only a few unpretentious candids before putting away the camera. From her site: Hymns from the Bedroom is a personal journal of friends and people I’ve encountered whilst wandering around London. Most of whom are creative twenty-something’s on the threshold of their dreams and ambitions, ranging from performance artists, musicians, actors and fashion designers to strippers, transvestites and those...
Exhibition dates: Tuesday 22nd July – Saturday 26th July, 2014 Opening: Tuesday 22nd July 6-8pm Nite Art: Wednesday 23rd July until 11pm Artists represented: Philip Potter, John Storey, John …
Like every generation before them, millennials endure the scorn of their amnestic elders with obliviousness and eyerolls. I’ll concede that bitterly railing about “kids these days” is the prerogative of anyone over 45 forced to listen to Miley Cyrus, but I truly think intergenerational amity is a worthy and plausible goal—and I’d advise all those baffled by millennial bullshit to start by looking at the margins of youth culture, rather than their commercial representatives, who are obviously appointed by old millionaires anyway. Photographer Poem Baker‘s captivating series,Hymns from the Bedroom, shows a gorgeous array of young people—some bending gender, some subverting conventions, some simply looking beautiful. Her subjects are her friends, and she captures them with a vulnerability that reveals the intimacy of the shoot—an informal affair where she might snap only a few unpretentious candids before putting away the camera. From her site: Hymns from the Bedroom is a personal journal of friends and people I’ve encountered whilst wandering around London. Most of whom are creative twenty-something’s on the threshold of their dreams and ambitions, ranging from performance artists, musicians, actors and fashion designers to strippers, transvestites and those...
Voices4 partnered with RUSA LGBT and held a queer kiss-in to protest violence against LGBTQ+ people.
The just-opened Derek Jarman retrospective at Dublin’s Irish Museum of Modern Art is a microcosm of four decades of British queer and countercultural history, seen through the gimlet eye of one its keenest documenters, writes Liam Hess
Michael Schulman writes about the photographer Ethan James Green and his new book of portraits, “Ethan James Green: Young New York,” featuring transgender and queer New York models.
