#queer-history

#queer-history

Have you ever wondered what to do with the piles of Advocate or Out magazines you've collected through the years? Or swag you've collected at Pride events that you keep in storage boxes in closets? What about those ticket stubs to Melissa Etheridge concerts you kept religiously? LGBTQ+ archives throughout the country seek to create a home for those artifacts to help preserve queer history.

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The cabaret bar at The Marsh Berkeley: It's a low-lit, convivial room where stories feel personal, laughter bounces off the bar glasses, and conversation lingers long after the curtain call. This fall, it's the stage for cultural firebrand and renowned playwright Terry Baum's Lesbo Solo: My Gay History Play, her chronicle, love letter, and rallying cry to gay revolution across five decades and counting.

Paget was actually a queer trailblazer, at risk of fading into obscurity like so many LGBTQ+ figures from our past, until his story was resurrected by the Seiriol Davies, the creator of How To Win Against History, and brought to life as a spectacular, all-singing, all-dancing, musical extravaganza with more glitter and sequins than an auction of Elton John's old stage outfits.

Matthew Carlsen expressed excitement for the opportunity to showcase under-represented groups in queer history through his portrayal of a female impersonator in The Gilded Age.

The piers transformed into underground spaces for cruising and creativity, empowering a community in a burgeoning era of self-expression following the Stonewall Riots.

Kinnard never expected the Brown Bomber to appear anywhere other than his sketchbook until the editor of his college newspaper asked him to contribute comics weekly.

I keep watching people discuss events that I've lived through, and the way those histories get twisted or disappear entirely.