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Some of the iconic covers of bisexual magazine Anything That Moves (via bi history group

#1990s #to read #media #alienated #lgbt

i learned about Marion Stokes, a Philadelphia woman who began taping whatever was on television in 1979 and didn’t stop until her death in 2012.. The 71,000 VHS and Betamax tapes she made are the most complete collection preserving this era of TV. They are being digitized by the Internet Archive. (x)

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i feel like this is selling her a bit short tbh. It’s not like she was a random woman who decided to tape ‘whatever’ was on television. She was a civil rights activist and archivist, who was extremely concerned about preserving history. She believed that, by taping television, she would be preserving history EXACTLY as it was perceived at the time; she didn’t want the detail in the news to disappear with time. And she was RIGHT.

Like I said, she didn’t just tape ‘whatever’ was on television. It was extremely targeted towards news stations. There were 8 VCRs running at all times in her home. Her life—-and her family’s lives—-were centered around 6 hour blocks, since that was the amount of time that a tape would record for. Her collections were also extremely organized.

#media #history #1970s #1980s #1990s #2000s #2010s #20th century #21st century #to watch #alienated

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From Bay Area Reporter, 1983.

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I need this on a poster

broodingsoul

fuck a poster give it to me on a t-shirt, I need something to wear to my family reunion

#1980s #1983 #media #alienated #20th century #art #fashion #<- i know its a newspaper but i just think michael would wear this on a shirt #michael takamoto

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do you have recommendations for lgbt+ history books? bc like wowowow, i want to learn more! i added "boots of leather, slippers of gold" to my list. any other recs?

I haven’t read all of these but here are some things that are referenced in what I have read:

Stone Butch Blues, Leslie Feinberg

A Restricted Country, Joan Nestle

Lesbian Herstory Archives Digital Collections

Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States, 1940-1970, John D’Emilio

Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A., ed. Jonathan Ned Katz

Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past

Zami, Audre Lorde

Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890–1940, George Chauncey

“Women-Identified Women: Trans Women in 1970s Lesbian Feminist Organizing,” Emma Heaney

The Other Side of Silence - Men’s Lives and Gay Identities: A Twentieth-Century History, John Loughery

“United in Anger: A History of ACT UP” (Documentary; sadly not captioned at the link)

Making History: An Oral History of the Struggle for Gay and Lesbian Civil Rights, 1945-1990, Eric Marcus

#history #to watch #to read #20th century #lgbt #hiv aids #act up #alienated

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Punks in London, 1983.

#fashion #1980s #1983 #20th century #punk #alienated #michael takamoto

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“Kissing Doesn’t Kill“ (Black and white postcard) from 1980’s ACT UP campaign for HIV/AIDS awareness.

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This is the banner that was put up on buses to create awareness! a lot of companies cropped out the bottom so I thought it would be cool to share the full version

#1980s #act up #hiv aids #art #media #gran fury #alienated

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Read the entire archive of OutWeek Magazine at the OutWeek Internet Archive!

The site contains all 105 issues of OutWeek, published from June 1989 to July 1991 in PDF format.

More about OutWeek:

OutWeek Magazine was the seminal lesbian and gay publication during the peak era of AIDS activism in the late 80s and early 90s.

Founded by Gabriel Rotello and Kendall Morrison, it employed a staff of about 30 people in Manhattan during its tumultuous two-year existence.

OutWeek redefined the role of the activist gay press, not only by reporting the news but also by frequently making news itself. Its aggressive coverage, incisive commentary and in-depth investigative articles on gay rights, politics, AIDS, the arts and popular culture made it a must-read publication far beyond the usual scope of gay magazines.

Several of the most contentious controversies of that era were sparked by OutWeek. The magazine pioneered the use of the word ‘queer,’ which was highly controversial at the time. It was closely associated with the AIDS activist group ACT UP, and several of its staffers and contributors helped to co-found the group Queer Nation.

Many of OutWeek’s editors were committed to sharply challenging the then-pervasive culture of the closet, and a sideline of that commitment - the advocacy of ‘outing’ prominent gay and lesbian celebrities – began in Michelangelo Signorile’s “Gossip Watch” column and was one of many things that made OutWeek a household name and a lightning rod.

OutWeek was committed to an inclusive vision of queer life, and was the first major national publication to bill itself as a ‘lesbian and gay’ magazine.

#media #history #1980s #1990s #20th century #to read #nyc #1989 #1990 #1991

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1980′s Teenagers and Their Bedroom Walls

#1980s #alienated #20th century #scenery

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Watch Bernie Sanders interview a couple of shopping mall goth kids in 1988

When Bernie Sanders was mayor of Burlington, Vermont, he had a cable access show called Bernie Speaks. In this 1988 episode, Sanders spoke to a couple of affable goth kids about capitalism, fashion, politics, anarchy, and society.

https://boingboing.net/2019/05/03/watch-bernie-sanders-interview.html