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❦ 𝐡𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐛𝐚𝐛𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐠𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐢 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬❦

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Gay USA documentary film (1977)

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Al Pacino in “Dog Day Afternoon” (dir. Sidney Lumet, 1975)

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Whilst I’m on a roll here with celebrating album releases, happy birthday to one of the most influential albums of my lifetime. Usually I post music history on an accuracy-central basis, however I feel compelled to give praise to this iconically phenomenal album. The discovery of David Bowie as an artist, in absolution permanently altered the trajectory of my life. Thanks to Bowie, I pursued music both as a hobby and a passion. Arguably, this was a breakthrough release: “The Man Who Sold The World” causing controversy in the United States only two years prior in 1970, simply because Bowie wore a dress on the album cover. I personally would claim that this album is where Bowie truly found his sound, and as the predecessor to “Aladdin Sane” he had by this point garnered notoriety and a prominence in the music industry; all of this despite causing quite a stir in social culture at the time as a result of his flaming red mullet, and flamboyant makeup & clothing. The character of Ziggy Stardust is cosmically monumental. I wholeheartedly cannot express what this album means to me. My favourite songs off the top of my head are “Soul Love” and “Hang Onto Yourself”.

Happy birthday to “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars” !!

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On this day (June 16 1995), Michael Jackson released his iconic double album: HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I. Blending pop, hip-hop, R&B, and hard rock, it became the best-selling double album in U.S. history. It shattered records, producing the first song in Billboard history to debut at #1, "You Are Not Alone". My personal favourite is “Come Together”!

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eye makeup featured in Zan-e Rooz magazine (January 9, 1971)

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A 19 year-old Prince Rogers Nelson in Minneapolis, 1977

(📸 Robert Whitman)

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Joni Mitchell, 1970.

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had a long conversation about religion, feminism, and exes with the drummer of my band on the way home from a gig. life is good

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Michael and Janet Jackson behind the scenes with director Mark Romanek on the set of “Scream” (1995)

“Scream” remains, to this day, the most expensive music video ever made. Originally costing an estimated $7 million to produce 31 years ago, inflation would suggest the modern equivalent would be adjusted to roughly $14.8 million today.

Janet Jackson has performed “Scream” alone since Michael’s tragic passing in 2009, making a tough creative decision to play the footage of their duet behind her. This provides a touching tribute to her older brother, as well as celebrating the archival material they created collaboratively.

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Activists Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera during Pride in NYC, 1989.

On our home planet, queerness is still subject to legal persecution in 65 nations. What a world we live in, where love shared between two consenting humans is sanctioned as scandalous, criminal even!

In 12 of these countries, homosexuality is punishable via the death penalty.

Figures like Johnson and Rivera symbolise more than an opposition to their own suffering under autocratic control- they emblematise a larger voice: one that echoes in protest against erasure of queer identities everywhere.

Happy Pride Month! Especially to anyone that sees this post and feels any kind of discomfort seeing people simply expressing their love like anybody else. This is a history page and, unlike some people, history includes everybody 🤍

(📸 Rudy Grillo)

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Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera along with other LGBT rights activists in 1973

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Woodstock Music & Art festival, 1960s-1980s

(📸John Dominis)

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The Main Ingredient, Afrodisiac (1973)

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Stevie Wonder and 16 year-old Michael Jackson at Motown Studios in Los Angeles, 1974.

(📸 Todd Gray)

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Barbara and Michael Leisgen - Mimesis, 1972-1973

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“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. The true neighbour will risk his position, his prestige, and even his life for the welfare of others. In dangerous valleys and hazardous pathways, he will lift some bruised and beaten brother to a higher and more noble life”

-Martin Luther King, Jr. A Gift of Love, Sermons from ‘Strength to Love’ and Other Preachings (1963)

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Strawberry Fields Forever - The Beatles (1967)