Were these two lovers? Certainly the creator had a beautiful eye for male beauty. 18th Century figures at the British Museum
#gayart #gayhistory #gay #lgbtq

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/06/before-stonewall-biggest-threat-was-entrapment/590536/ #lgbtiq #gayhistory

As an expert on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer history, Eric Gonzaba Ph.D. will provide ballast to our conversation ... you know, just in case "make America great again" turns out to mean "make America straight again."

When it comes to 21st century LGBTQ+ nightlife, there are couple of generations that need to remember what it was like.

Register to join us on Aug. 16. It's free and virtual. https://24hournation.com/webinars/out-after-dark/

#lgbtq #nightlife #GayHistory #GayHistorian #webinar

Los Angeles' own LGBTQ history isn't as well known as the Stonewall Riots and Harvey Milk, but Morris Kight was a gay rights pioneer and legend in Southern California.

A former home of gay rights pioneer Morris Kight, considered by some people as “the birthplace of the modern LGBTQ civil rights movement,” was designated a historic-cultural monument with a special stipulation that the building cannot be moved from its Westlake location.

#LosAngeles #LGBTQ #GayHistory
https://qvoicenews.com/2023/08/10/morris-kight-home-named-historic-monument-by-la-city-council/

Today's queer indie author review! Dark Horse" by K. York:

"York hits it out of the park... a heartfelt and beautifully written story... a well-crafted tale of two men from different walks of life in the Victorian age."

https://www.queeromanceink.com/2023/08/10/review-dark-horse-k-york/

#Historical #London #England #Victorian #GayHistory #BookReview #Review #GayRomance #MMRomance #MMBookstodon @MMbookstodon #romance #MM #gay #queer #LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTQBookstodon @LGBTQBookstodon @diversebooks #bookstodon @bookstodon #book #books

TODAY IN QUEER BROADCASTING HISTORY

LIVE AND LET LIVE - 7/15/1962, WBAI radio, NYC (and later other stations)

In 1962, New York gay activist Randy Wicker was tired of radio's third-person discussions of homosexuality, with mental-health professionals yammering sickness-theory nonsense about us and saying things that had no connection with gay life as Randy had seen it.

So he approached a radio station that had aired such shows and convinced them to broadcast a panel of eight gay or bisexual men, talking for themselves about their own lives for several hours - a radical idea for 1962. LIVE AND LET LIVE aired on WBAI, and was later heard on other Pacifica stations and other nonprofit and educational radio outlets. You can now listen to it online. Here's part 1:

https://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-526-r49g44jz5j

#radio #MediaStudies #gay #LGBTQ #queer #QueerHistory #GayHistory #LGBTQHistory #WBAI #PacificaRadio

Today's indie author review: Samuel, Earl of Crofton" by Rebecca Cohen:

"What really makes the story intriguing is Samuel himslf. He’s humble and has a shyness to him... There’s so much more to this epic tale. Cohen’s Crofton Hall books are all outstanding."

https://www.queeromanceink.com/2023/07/02/review-samuel-earl-of-crofton-rebecca-cohen/

#Historical #GayHistory #BookReview #Review #GayRomance #MMRomance #MMBookstodon @MMbookstodon #romance #gay #LGBTQ #LGBTQBookstodon @LGBTQBookstodon @diversebooks #bookstodon @bookstodon #book #books @rebeccacohen

"Hear me, elders, hear me, young men,
my beloved friend is dead, he is dead,
my beloved brother is dead, I will mourn
as long as I breathe, I will sob for him
like a woman who has lost her only child."

[…]

"But Enkidu did not answer. Gilgamesh
touched his heart, but it did not beat.
Then he veiled Enkidu’s face like a bride's."

Tablet VIII, Epic of Gilgamesh

#PrideMonth #LGBTQ #LGBTQHistory #gayHistory #ancientMesopotamia @antiquidons @histodons

"It is said that the band was never beaten, until the battle of Chaeroneia and when, after the battle, Philip [II of Macedon] was surveying the dead, and [...] on learning that this was the band of lovers and beloved, burst into tears and said: 'Perish miserably they who think that these men either did or suffered anything that was disgraceful.'"

Plutarch, The Parallel Lives

#PrideMonth #LGBTQ #LGBTQHistory #gayHistory #ancientGreece @antiquidons @histodons

Today's indie author review! That Old Razzle Dazzle by Will Forrest:

"The beautiful, heart-rending, interracial love story between Izzy and Noel features prominently here... Will Forrest is an outstanding writer with a gift for crafting amazing stories and characters."

https://www.queeromanceink.com/2023/06/27/review-the-old-razzle-dazzle-will-forrest/

#Historical #GayHistory #BookReview #Review #GayRomance #MMRomance #MMBookstodon @MMbookstodon #romance #gay #LGBTQ #LGBTQBookstodon @LGBTQBookstodon @diversebooks #bookstodon @bookstodon #books

"#Helenos, son of #Priamos, was beloved of #Apollon and received from him the silver bow with which he wounded #Achilles in the hand."

Ptolemy Hephaestion, Book 6 in Photius 190

🎨 Helenos and Apollon under a #Pride banner by my illustrator @freitas_art

#PrideMonth #LGBTQ #LGBTQHistory #gayHistory #ancientGreece #mlm #TrojanWar @antiquidons @mythology @histodons #Apollo #indieArt #indieArtist

"[My friend, the] penis that you touched so your heart rejoiced,
grubs devour [(it) … like an] old garment.
[My friend, the crotch that you] touched so your heart rejoiced,
it is filled with dust [like a crack in the ground.]"

Tablet XII, Epic of Gilgamesh

#Enkidu died and this is his ghost talking to #Gilgamesh.

#PrideMonth #LGBTQ #LGBTQHistory #gayHistory #ancientMesopotamia #mlm @antiquidons @mythology @histodons

This #Pride weekend, Trash Panda will transform into Houston's iconic 90s hotspot La Strada.

https://www.chron.com/culture/article/stonewall-houston-pride-18117635.php

#Texas #Houston #PrideMonth #LGBTQ #History #GayHistory

"Pelops, whom Earth-cradling Poseidon loved,
since Klotho had taken him out of the pure cauldron,
his ivory shoulder gleaming in the hearth-light."

Pindar, First Olympian Ode

🏛️ Attic red-figure hydria-kalpis (water jar) dated early 4th Century BCE. Today in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

#PrideMonth #LGBTQ #LGBTQHistory #gayHistory #ancientGreece @antiquidons @mythology #GreekRomanArt #Poseidon #Pelops

It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏

"Hermes, beloved of Polydeukes, one of the Dioskouroi, made him a gift of Dotor, the Thessalian horse."

Ptolemaios Chennos, New History

🏛️ #Hermes, Polydeukes, #Satyr or #Silenos, Italic Stamnos, 400–350 BCE. Today in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.

#DayOfHermes #Mythology @mythology @antiquidons #PrideMonth #LGBTQHistory #gayHistory

"#Iolaos, who shared the labours of #Herakles and fought by his side, was beloved of him and Aristotle says that even in his day lovers plighted their faith at Iolaos' tomb.
It was natural, then, that the band should also be called sacred, because even #Plato calls the lover a divine friend."

@antiquidons @histodons #PrideMonth #LGBTQ #LGBTQHistory #gayHistory #ancientGreece #MosaicMonday

Ein Tipp für alle, die sich für die Geschichte der Lesben- und Schwulenbewegung in den USA interessieren https://makinggayhistory.com/subscribe/ #gayhistory #lgbtiq

"He [Magnes of Thessalia] had a son of remarkable beauty, Hymenaios. And when #Apollon saw the boy, he was seized with love for him, and would not leave the house of Magnes."

Hesiod, The Great Eoiae Fragment 16

#PrideMonth #LGBTQ #LGBTQHistory #gayHistory @antiquidons @mythology #GreekRomanArt #Apollo

Ὡς Διόνυσος ἐρώμενος Χείρωνος, ἐξ οὗ καὶ μάθοι τούς τε κώμους καὶ τὰς βακχείας καὶ τὰς τελετάς.

"#Dionysos was the eromenos (youthful lover) of #Chiron, from whom he learned the songs and dances, the Bacchic rites and the initiations into the mysteries."

Ptolemaios Chennos

🎨 Dionysos riding a chariot pulled by two #centaurs, photographed by Dennis Jarvis
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22490717@N02/7864313568

#PrideMonth #LGBTQ #LGBTQHistory #gayHistory @antiquidons @mythology #GreekRomanArt #Dionysus #MosaicMonday

Er is sprake van een kleine opleving van belangstelling in Nederland voor dichter en toneelschrijver #FedericoGarciaLorca, zo wijzen de statistieken op mijn blog uit. Op de festivals Oerol en De Parade staat de voorstelling Lorca, naar aanleiding van het 'onspeelbare toneelstuk' El Publico (Het Publiek) uit 1930 - #LHBTIQ #gayhistory #queer tot op het bot: https://michielbollinger.wordpress.com/2022/05/01/federico-garcia-lorca-en-zijn-onspeelbare-toneelstuk-het-publiek-uit-1930-queer-tot-op-het-bot/