Dirty Queer Universe

exploring the queer world through art, literature, and activism

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Sculpting Fantasy - Rein Vollenga

https://www.yatzer.com/rein-vollenga

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Tina Paul

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The Others - Derek Ridgers 

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Style & The Family Tunes 

“(We had) street castings not supermodels, t-shirts not shoulder pads – anti-glam replaced the glam of the 80s in fashion but also in music and photography. And Berlin was the perfect breeding ground for all of that – everything seemed possible, the borders were open, the city and the mind were free.”

http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/26982/1/the-cult-magazine-that-helped-shape-post-soviet-berlin

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True Love Waits - Kelia Anne MacCluskey 

http://i-d.vice.com/en_us/article/this-21-year-old-photographer-takes-on-american-purity-rings?utm_source=idfbus

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Miss Gay Lady Venezuela

http://www.vice.com/read/miss-gay-lady-venezuela-876

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Queer wove together the new emotional habitus and the movement’s oppositional politics and sex-radicalism, creating a collectivity that set queer-identified folks apart from the more establishment-oriented gay leadership and institutions. Rather than an identity, or even an anti-identity, in the way that queer theory posits, queer, in its moment of rebirth circa 1990, might best be understood as an emotive, an expression of…fury and pride about gay difference and about confrontational activism, antipathy toward heteronormative society, and aspirations to live in a transformed world. It validated those who held radical politics, who refused assimilation, and who celebrated sexual difference.

Moving Politics: Emotion and ACT UP’s Fight Against AIDS - Debbie Gould

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There is no entity, no identity, no queer subject or subject to queer, rather queerness coming forth at us from all directions, screaming its defiance.

Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times - Jasbir K. Puar

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down on your knees! pray to the holy human body! worship god in the fork of the thighs! i can't blow the 'socialist victory' nor raise any flag but my lilywhite ass to all the silly nations who want me to choose sides. I've chosen orgasm/feeling/smell/soul freedom of dream - who is freer than when he dreams?

Now France - Harold Norse

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The Angels of Light - Tashi Shimada

“The pioneers of psychedelic gay liberation theatre”

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Human Dilations_Suspension - Roger Weiss

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Mick Rock

http://www.dazeddigital.com/fashion/article/26343/1/capturing-the-style-of-a-starman

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Boy and his SIR: BDSM and the Queer Family - Kevin Warth

“This body of work stems from my disidentification with moderate gay politics, which primarily concerns itself with the legalization of gay marriage and adoption. In response, I question if this normative family structure is a desirable goal for queer relations, or if other modes of kinship are more suitable.”

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Les Danseurs - Matthew Brookes 

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BEING HUMAN: Sexuality, Gender and Belonging to Family in Nan Goldin’s Photography 

http://dangerousminds.net/comments/being_human_nan_goldins_photography

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The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.

On The Road - Jack Kerouac (1957)

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a tribute to Divine in John Waters’ Pink Flamingos (1972)

http://www.dazeddigital.com/fashion/article/26071/1/how-to-dress-like-divine-the-filthiest-fashion-queen