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[gloriousclio]

Luke Skywalker put away his targeting computer to destroy the Death Star so I don't need AI to help me write an email.

[udunie]

Okay guys, so on the eve of getting rid of our fucking authoritarian leader, I will tell you how we did it, despite the governments overwhelming media presence and fucking undercover operations against the opposition.

It was actually said best by a Hungarian comic, I'm paraphrasing a bit: If your house is on fire, you can't be like 'well that's not the fireman I imagined'.

I know it's been said a thousand times before, I know everybody is raging against having to vote for a less than ideal candidate, but today has proven that it fucking works. It's the only thing that works. And if the new guy is just a step closer to what you want? That's a fucking win. That's a fucking step in the right direction.

Is Péter Magyar going to usher in gay marriage and UBI? No. But he's not going to ban pride, like Orbán tried. Is he going to cut all ties with Russia? Probably not, but is he going to make sure that we stay in the EU? Fuck yeah. And over Orbán, that's a fucking improvement, and I will take it gladly.

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[lakevida]

i cant take anymore of these bigass ads for ai character bots dude i dont want to be in a group chat with the amazing digital circus i am thirty or forty years old

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Looks like Aziraphale and Crowley got married and opened an antiques shop in Norfolk…

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finally forced myself back into the research for my diss, which means flicking through The Dial, an ‘occasional’ Aesthetic arts/lit publication from the 1890s edited, illustrated, and published by the queer artist couple Charles Ricketts and Charles Shannon.

Came across a sonnet in it called Parsifal, which first of all shows that I can’t escape arthuriana even when I try to resist.

but the cool thing is that it’s about Parsifal’s ‘conquer[ing]’ of ‘the WOMAN BEAUTIFUL’ (yeah the misogyny is rampant I know) in order to heal the dying king and become king and priest himself and look after the sangreel and be vaguely homoerotic about Jesus’s spear-wound.  i.e., overcoming heterosociality to ascend into elite homosociality…

and it’s written by John Gray (queer) – the chap Wilde based Dorian on – roughly translating Paul Verlaine (queer), whose sonnet was in turn based on Wagner’s opera Parzifal, and Wagner was peak gay culture in the late 19th century

i just think it’s neat.jpeg

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here it is! 

Also if anyone knows why he mentions a ‘green goblet’, or about the children singing in the dome, please hmu!  

In Verlaine’s, the goblet line is ‘Le vase pur où resplendit le Sang réel’ (The pure vase where shines the royal Blood/sangreal/Holy Grail).  P sure there’s the suggestion of absinthe (green goblet, mysterious Wine), but I also suspect it might be an allusion to Wagner or Esschenbach, neither of which I have a clue about

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Filippo Palizzi - Thoughtful girl at the Pompeii’s excavations (1865)

[generalsolo]

My practice would do very well for a day or two—it’s the slackest time of the year.

[theladyintweed]

Christian Dior’s fashions for 1955 

Dior,1954

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Vita & Virginia dir. Chanya Button (2018)

[thecoggs]

So apparently last year the National Park Service in the US dropped an over 1200 page study of LGBTQ American History as part of their Who We Are program which includes studies on African-American history, Latino history, and Indigenous history. 

Like. This is awesome. But also it feels very surreal that maybe one of the most comprehensive examinations of LGBTQ history in America (it covers sports! art! race! historical sites! health! cities!) was just casually done by the parks service. 

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This is really great??

Chapter 1: Prologue: Why LGBTQ Historic Sites Matter by Mark Meinke

Chapter 2: Introduction to the LGBTQ Heritage Initiative Theme Study by Megan E. Springate

Chapter 3: Introduction to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) History in the United States by Leisa Meyer and Helis Sikk

Chapter 4: The History of Queer History: One Hundred Years of the Search for Shared Heritage by Gerard Koskovich

Chapter 5: The Preservation of LGBTQ Heritage by Gail Dubrow

Chapter 6: LGBTQ Archeological Context by Megan E. Springate

Chapter 7: A Note about Intersectionality by Megan E. Springate

Chapter 8: Making Bisexuals Visible by Loraine Hutchins

Chapter 9: Sexual and Gender Diversity in Native America and the Pacific Islands by Will Roscoe

Chapter 10: Transgender History in the US and the Places that Matter by Susan Stryker

Chapter 11: Breathing Fire: Remembering Asian Pacific American Activism in Queer History by Amy Sueyoshi

Chapter 12: Latina/o Gender and Sexuality by Deena J. González and Ellie D. Hernandez

Chapter 13: “Where We Could Be Ourselves”: African American LGBTQ Historic Places and Why They Matter by Jeffrey A. Harris

Chapter 14: LGBTQ Spaces and Places by Jen Jack Gieseking

Chapter 15: Making Community: The Places and Spaces of LGBTQ Collective Identity Formation by Christina B. Hanhardt

Chapter 16: LGBTQ Business and Commerce by David K. Johnson

Chapter 17: Sex, Love, and Relationships by Tracy Baim

Chapter 18: LGBTQ Civil Rights in America by Megan E. Springate

Chapter 19: Historical Landmarks and Landscapes of LGBTQ Law by Marc Stein

Chapter 20: LGBTQ Military Service by Steve Estes

Chapter 21: Struggles in Body and Spirit: Religion and LGBTQ People in US History by Drew Bourn

Chapter 22: LGBTQ and Health by Katie Batza

Chapter 23: LGBTQ Art and Artists by Tara Burk

Chapter 24: LGBTQ Sport and Leisure by Katherine Schweighofer

Chapter 25: San Francisco: Placing LGBTQ Histories in the City by the Bay by Donna J. Graves and Shayne E. Watson

Chapter 26: Preservation of LGBTQ Historic & Cultural Sites – A New York City Perspective by Jay Shockley

Chapter 27: Locating Miami’s Queer History by Julio Capó, Jr.

Chapter 28: Queerest Little City in the World: LGBTQ Reno by John Jeffrey Auer IV

Chapter 29: Chicago: Queer Histories at the Crossroads of America by Jessica Herczeg-Konecny

Chapter 30: Nominating LGBTQ Places to the National Register of Historic Places and as National Historic Landmarks: An Introduction by Megan E. Springate and Caridad de la Vega

Chapter 31: Interpreting LGBTQ Historic Sites by Susan Ferentinos

Chapter 32: Teaching LGBTQ History and Heritage by Leila J. Rupp

[granniekid]

We used it in my LGBT history class and it’s SO WONDERFUL I LOVE it PLEASE READ at least some chapters. It has photos and sources and goes into detail in footnotes when it doesn’t have time for a tangent.

[myfairynuffstuff]

Ethel Spowers (1890 - 1947) - The Staircase Window. Linocut on paper.

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So I’m currently making a belated birthday cake for Oscar Wilde. Any decorating suggestions? (This is for an actual event please don’t judge me)

Judge you?  The only judgement I’m making is that you’re evidently a person very much after my own heart.  

Green carnations spring to mind; books, Greek references, Beardsley-style writing.  I’ll throw it open to my followers.  I expect to see pictures when it’s done, Anon!!  Good luck, I’m sure it’ll be glorious!

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I knew this short story collection was E.M. Forster’s previously unpublished gay work but I was NOT prepared for HOW GAY this would be!🌈❤️🌈😭🌈❤️🌈 - As we all know because I go on and on about it and read it every five minutes, ‘Maurice’ is one of my favourite books. Though explicitly gay it’s incredibly “refined” in its handling of homosexuality. These stories however had NO RESTRAINT WHATSOEVER.😂🙈🌈🤪 - I may or may not have imagined myself as a queer member of the Bloomsbury group reading these on the sly. A really enjoyable read! - My favourite story was ‘The Obelisk’ (although I also really really loved ‘The Other Boat’ and ‘The Classical Annex’ is the most absurd/fabulous six pages I’ve ever read…😅) - The only story I didn’t really like was ‘The Torque’ - it was too weird/uncomfortable to read for me.😐 - (Wanted to add: I bought this in the UK. It looks to me like in the US these stories are only published as the collection ‘The Life To Come’ alongside four non-gay short stories…. Pretty sure that’s correct but if I’m wrong, soz.) https://www.instagram.com/p/BnwMkuIlVZJ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=56wiw7bamhww

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@booksandotherfourletterwords Thanks for your reply! I’m interested to know *which* 8 stories are in this collection (the publisher’s website is coy on this). With that info, it would be easier to comment accurately. ;) Even Forster’s very first published story, ‘The Story of a Panic’, is pretty queer, though Forster was, at the time, unconscious of quite what he’d written. ;) (A ‘difficult’ teenage boy on holiday in Italy with adults has a funny turn – Pan bursts onto the scene in the form of a local boy, LoL – bringing pandemonium and what today we can only read as coded/implied homosex.)

It irks me that the amazing gay stories in The Life to Come collection are not better known to readers – and I can’t decide whether the existence of the Hesperus collection helps or hinders. We really NEED a proper full anthology of ALL Forster’s gay/queer short fiction. (As well as the overtly gay stories in TLTC/The Obelisk collections, there are a few more – some incomplete/fragments – in Abinger Edition 9, Arctic Summer and Other Fiction. But, like all the Abinger Forsters, it’s out of print, though I got a copy secondhand.)

I bloody love his (more-)explicitly gay stories in The Life to Come. When I first read them, I LoL’d on public transport, especially at ‘The Classical Annex’. Queer Forster is astonishingly snarky. I too love ‘The Obelisk’, and ‘Arthur Snatchfold’ (there’s a lovely Maurice fic on AO3 which rewrites Maurice and Alec’s first time along these lines) – and ‘Doctor Woolacott’, ‘The Life to Come’ and ‘The Other Boat’, are all real masterpieces. Well, you can see which my blog description comes from. ;-)

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I’ve been trying for a good year now to find a complete collection of Forster’s short stories (I’ve heard there are several others besides the ones that float around in ‘selected works’) but to no avail.  It seems they’ve never been published all together; at least they’re certainly no longer in print.  

If anyone knows of such a volume, do please make my day and lmk! <3

[womeninsuits]

In 1933, while en route to Paris via Cherbourg on the German luxury ocean liner the Europa, Dietrich created a stir when she enjoyed the open-air deck in a white pantsuit. Hearing of this, the head of the Paris police department warned that Dietrich would be arrested if she wore such clothing in Paris. Upon her arrival in the city, she stepped off the train wearing her most mannish tweed suit, complete with her hair slicked back under a beret and sunglasses fashioned after the traditional lesbian signifier, the monocle. Dietrich was not arrested; in fact, the chief of police apologized and sent her a sandalwood bracelet as a gift. Dietrich used her image—and her star power—to teach the Parisian police a lesson in freedom of choice. [x]

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Aubrey Beardsley, 1898