MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK

This historic hotel was home to one of the most well-known gay bathhouses in New York City in the 1970s. The Continental Baths, located in the basement of the Ansonia Hotel, claimed to be able to serve 1,000 men, 24 hours a day with private rooms, a disco, and a cabaret. Future stars like Bette Midler, Barry Manilow, and Patti LaBelle, performed at the bathhouse as well as established musicians like Cab Calloway, Lesley Gore, and even the Andrews Sisters. More on the hotel: bit.ly/3spDDe8

A towel from the Continental Baths is featured in “New York at Its Core.” This section of our permanent exhibition explores the ways in which LGBTQ+ life in New York became far more open and visible following the Stonewall Uprising of 1969.

📷: Ansonia Apartments, ca. 1905, Museum of the City of New York, X2010.7.1.334. #NYCHistory #LGBTQHistory

ON THIS DAY IN #LGBTQ HISTORY --

Monica Helms, Navy veteran and activist, created the Transgender Pride Flag in 1999 on August 19th!

It was revealed at the 2000 Phoenix AZ pride event, and she donated the original flag to the Smithsonian in 2014.

THANK YOU Monica!

#trans #transpride #transgender #LGBTQhistory #onthisday #fediart

Read the full article here: https://wp.me/p6JJ6S-3I9 4/4
#HistSex #HistoryofSexuality #lgbtqhistory

We’ve got an exciting new post out today. In Reproduction in Transition: Fertility Technology in the Lives of Sexual and Gender Minorities Donna J. Drucker brings together fertility technologies, gender affirming care, and the limitations of medical advancements.

Find the article here: https://wp.me/p6JJ6S-4B1

#HistSex #HistoryofSexuality #lgbtqhistory

Putin signed a law banning transgender transition.
🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️ :transflag:

The law takes effect as of today, July 24, 2023. The law includes a ban on marriage and adoption of children.
#TransRightsAreHumanRights #TransRights #LGBTQIA #LGBTQ #HumanRights #BREAKING #LGBTQhistory #Транс #ЛГБТКИА #ЛГБТК #ПраваЧеловека #RussiaIsANaziState #RussiaIsATerroristState #StopRussia #War

#DustySpringfield was an artist.
More than a singer, more than a musician, more than an entertainer, she was a complete artist.
She invented the character of “Dusty”, and found a way to live her life through it. She was powerful and in control.
💜🌈💜
#LGBTQHistory
https://youtu.be/0hWYGZ0dQHU

It’s time for Hand Drama Class with #DustySpringfield !

Dusty’s right hand should get an OSCAR™️; it’s the #GlendaJackson of Hand Drama!
It’s add a whole level of storytelling dimension to her music that doesn’t necessarily come through in an audio recording.
💜🌈💜
#LGBTQHistory
https://youtu.be/l17NYKUvEAk

WHEN TWO POWERFUL LESBIANS MEET
💜🌈💜
#DustySpringfield #AnneMurray #LGBTQHistory
https://youtu.be/1GfE8xsKJ3o

Look at Dusty absolutely camping it up!
💜🌈💜
#PetShopBoys #DustySpringfield #LGBTQHistory
https://youtu.be/WRPhsLO1nl4

#PRONI is looking for volunteers to help transcribe the Cara-Friend archive. Join us at PRONI to help us transcribe and make more accessible letters relating to @CaraFriendNI and the LGBT heritage of Northern Ireland!🌈

Email proni@communities-ni.gov.uk for more info or visit the PRONI Eventbrite page https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/collabarchive-transcribathons-tickets-672073167937 #LGBTQHistory #NorthernIreland

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 IN QUEER TV HISTORY

NEWS - 7/11/1976, various networks

From today in 1976: Coverage of the gay rights demonstration outside the Democratic National Convention in NYC.

Note the "GAYS FOR CARTER" banner and an early reclamation of the pink triangle on a protest sign, set in a black circle like the future ACT UP logo. NBC covered it, and this video might (or might not) be from that network.

At the time, NBC's in-house subject index, which used lots of abbreviations, logged their report as being about a protest by "homos."

https://youtu.be/lkG5o_M23qQ

#television #QueerHistory #LGBTQHistory #queer #LGBTQ

TODAY IN QUEER TV HISTORY

CBS EVENING NEWS - 7/9/1980

Today in 1980, CBS reported that the Rules panel of the Democratic National Committee had voted to ban discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation in party matters, and to require parity between men and women in key party positions.

#LGBTQ #lesbian #gay #bi #queer #QueerHistory #LGBTQHIstory

TODAY IN QUEER TV HISTORY

CNN NEWS - 7/7/1981

Today in 1981, CNN aired what was probably the first national American TV news report on AIDS: a short piece about a rare skin cancer that had been diagnosed in 41 young gay men.

The Cable News Network was relatively new then: it had launched just one year earlier.

#AIDS #HIV #Epidemics #MedicalHistory #QueerHistory #LGBTQHistory #gay #bi #queer #CNN #80sTV #1980sTV

TODAY IN QUEER TV HISTORY

ABC NEWS NIGHTLINE - 7/7/1989, ABC

In the report "What Makes a Family?" (aired today in 1989), Interviewees discussed a New York court ruling that same-sex couples count as a family. In a classic piece of TV news "both-sides-ism," the panel included a bigot from the Family Research Council.

#gay #bi #lesbian #LGBTQ #queer #QueerHistory #LGBTQHistory

2/2 Did you miss my Seattle Queer History Ride? I’m leading it a 2nd time! #SEAbikes

Sun July 9 at 1 pm: ride from Volunteer Park to visit historical sites & learn interesting stories about Seattle’s queer community. Bring your bike/e-bike

Register: https://cascade.org/node/81328

#Seattle #BikeTooter #LGBTQ #LGBTQHistory #historyRide

The Nazis called them "antisocial" elements, "criminals" and "mentally handicapped" people.

But the lesbians imprisoned in the Ravensbrück women's concentration camp during the Holocaust were quite different.

Modern researchers and feminists are trying to reconstruct the memory of these women and the stories of their lives.

P+
https://parniplus.com/lgbt-movement/neskolko-istorij/
#LGBTQIAplus #LGBTQIA #LGBTQ #LGBTQhistory #Lesbians #Nazi #History #Queer #Fem #Feminism #Women #WomenRights #HumanRights

Spending time in #liberal Lexington, Kentucky. Sampling at Barrel House Distilling. LGBTQ History marker (see alt text); Lincoln mural by #Kobra
#Lexington #bourbon #alcohol #LGBTQHistory

Just me and a couple of friends went to Madame Peabody’s Dancing Academy for Young Ladies aka The Casino, Seattle’s earliest gay bar, and many other historical sites on my 3rd annual Seattle Queer History Bike Tour today!

If you missed the ride today (or want to ride it a 2nd time), I will be leading it again on Sunday, July 9 at 1 pm. Register here: https://cascade.org/node/81328
#SEAbikes #BikeTooter #Seattle #LGBTQ #LGBTQHistory

"Whom again must I persuade
to lead you back to her love? Who, Sappho,
is doing you wrong?

For if she flees, swiftly she will pursue;
if she refuses gifts, soon she shall give them;
and if she does not love, swiftly she will love
even if she does not wish to.

Come to me again and ease my pain;
Take bitter care from my mind and give me
all I long for. Stand beside me,
#Aphrodite, as my sister in arms."

#Sappho 1

#PrideMonth #LGBTQ #LGBTQHistory #lesbianHistory #sapphic @antiquidons