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Gen X lesbian librarian. Born during the Nixon administration. Feel free to drop me a query.

[politicalrpf]

Vice President Richard Nixon doing his work lying on bed like schoolgirl, 1952.

[butchdeanjohn]

positive image: a portrait of gay america (1985) by stephen stewart

[escuerzoresucitado]

Pedestrian traffic lights

[sjorsdottir]

Ooooh, we have a bunch of really fancy pedestrian traffic lights in Germany! I need to share:

Starting off with the difference between formerly Eastern German traffic lights (upper images) and formerly Western German traffic lights (lower images):

The city of Erfurt had some additions, like an umbrella or a heart:

Same sex love in Marburg (upper image) and Frankfurt (lower image):

Traffic light lady in Bremen:

Karl Marx light in Trier:

Face of Friedrich Engels in Wuppertal:

Elvis in Friedberg (Hessen):

A sparrow (for the Golden Sparrow film awards) in Gera:

Winemaker in Bad Dürkenheim:

Mainzelmännchen (mascot of the public broadcasting service ZDF) in Mainz:

Otto Waalkes (German Comedian) in Emden:

Town musicians of Bremen in Bremen:

A miner in Pirmasens, Rheinland-Pfalz:

Bishop in Fulda:

Source: Saarbrücker Zeitung

Enjoy!

[prismatic-bell]

I noticed something I didn't like about this post. So I'm fixing it.

NAIROBI, KENYA

I couldn't figure out why I couldn't find a still image of the green light. Wanna know why? (It's adorable.) THE GREEN LIGHT ACTUALLY WALKS. It has a full walk cycle. I found a video of it on YouTube.

LAGOS, NIGERIA

Doesn't seem to have them. Instead they have raised pedestrian bridges to go over traffic.

LUBUMBASHI, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO

Lubumbashi has us all beat, everybody. We can go home. First of all, it's another animated signal. Second of all, it's a giant robot:

STOP:

WAIT:

And then the whole top turns at the waist and you can GO:

There. Post is better now.

[skramztwinkly]

joan jett’s 1977 gibson melody maker

[vintageeveryday]

Sister Mary Kenneth Keller (born Evelyn Marie Keller, December 17, 1913 – January 10, 1985) was a pioneering American Catholic nun, educator, and computer scientist. She became the first woman in the United States to earn a Ph.D. in computer science, awarded in 1965 by the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Read more of her story here...

[anglofranco]

[blockbustervideos]

ALIEN (1979) dir. Ridley Scott

[yesornopolls]

is there a regional dish specific to the region you live in or grew up in that you particularly like?

Is there a regional dish specific to the region you live in or grew up in that you particularly like?

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[gay-bi-classic-actors-bracket]

Welcome to the Gay & Bi Classic Hollywood Actors Bracket!

Hello everyone, this is @alovelywaytospendanevening. This blog is dedicated to a tournament bracket featuring gay and bisexual male actors from the Classic Hollywood era, which spanned from the 1920s to the mid-1960s. Through comprehensive research, I've curated 58 names to be part of it. I want to make it clear that this is not meant to be a definitive list of non-straight actors from the period — such a thing would be virtually impossible to create, not only because of the extremely secretive way this subject was handled but also because of the sheer number of names it would feature. I’m well aware that opinions diverge on which names should be included in this type of categorization.

A new batch of polls will be posted every Wednesday until the finals.

This is intended to be a fun and light-hearted thing, so please don't take it too seriously. At most, I hope to bring some visibility to lesser-known and underappreciated names from the past. Enjoy the ride! 😄

[gay-bi-classic-actors-bracket]

Round 3 polls:

Richard Chamberlain vs Jeremy Brett

Alec Guinness vs Cary Grant

Anthony Perkins vs Sal Mineo

Rock Hudson vs Roddy McDowall

Laurence Harvey vs Vincent Price

Farley Granger vs Randolph Scott

George Takei vs Tab Hunter

Cesar Romero vs James Dean

[slayerbuffy]

Buffy the Vampire Slayer 5.02 | "Real Me"

[rickandmortyforlife]

[hirokazukoreeda]

Annie & Melanie in The Birds (1963) dir. Alfred Hitchcock.

[sinewsofhistory]

The garçonne look, 1922–1929

The sharp edge of an era

Images: Passing Fashions: Reading Female Masculinities in the 1920s

Image 1: Eine Frau modelt Jeanne Lanvins Version des Garçonne-Looks, 1925. Image 2: Jane Heap, photographed in Paris by Berenice Abbott, 1927. Image 3: “Garçonnes,” 1922. Paris, Palais Galliera–musée de la Mode; found on the Van Cleef & Arpels Collection.

Image 1: February 1925: British actress of stage and screen Edna Best (1900 - 1974) as Fay Collen in the play 'Spring Cleaning' at St Martins Theatre in London. Image 2: Edna Best by Dorothy Wilding, c. 1925.

Image 1 and 2: Le Grand Tailleur, No. 181 and 184; both 1926.

Image 1: Postcard of German film actress Elga Brink, c. mid-to-late 1920s. Image 2: Cover of Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung, No. 46, 13 November 1927; found in Women in the Weimar Republic by Helen Boak, pg. 270. Image 3: Publicity shot of German actress Ruth Landshoff in Das Leben; November 1929.

Dividers: priestboy

[alfredsnightmare]

[sparklejamesysparkle]

Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin and Dolly Parton in the trailer for the 20th Century Fox/Colin Higgins corporate revenge comedy 9 to 5, 1980.

[sparklejamesysparkle]

Rock Hudson and a male companion go water-skiing in Portofino, Italy during a break in production on the Universal-International/Robert Mulligan romantic comedy Come September, photos by Leo Fuchs, summer 1960.

[sparklejamesysparkle]

Tab Hunter at the Desert Inn, Palm Springs, California, 1956.