A gay artist who forged IDs to save thousands from the Nazis? Meet
Willem Arondeus. 🎨🏳️🌈 #QueerHistory #LGBTQ
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DYK scientific fact never mattered to Christians? Novatian (d.258), taught that #QueerSex violated the basic “nature” of masculinity. He claimed it led to “uncommon & fearsome monstrosities against nature itself”. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #doctrine #NaturalLaw #QueerHistory
Passionate, but innocent, friendships remained intact for decades. If sex happened, it had to be a secret. That’s how #Gogol disguised his love for his deceased lover, Iosif Vielhorsky. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #QueerHistory
A vintage microphone on a dark background with the text "FORGOTTEN QUEERS" below it.
George Michael—sexy, smart, funny, and gone far too soon. 💔
He’s the focus of my latest Forgotten Queers episode.
Listen, rate, follow, review… and tell a friend.
#ForgottenQueers #GeorgeMichael #QueerHistory #LGBTQStories #PodcastLife
Birmingham 1992 Pride weekend ©StuartLindenRhodes as @LindenArchives Books & Prints at www.pariahpress.com #photography #queerart #queerhistory #gayart #gaybook Photographs may not be used without permission. @birminghamlgbt @birminghamqueerarchive @pariahpress.bsky.social @gaysof.bsky.social
On this day in queer history: 18 April 1952
The American Psychiatric Association classifies homosexuality as a mental disorder in the first DSM—a label removed in 1973 after years of protest.
#QueerHistory
In this case, the truth was “All men should marry, but only the wise be permitted to love boys, for perfect virtue grows least of all among women.” HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #misogyny #QueerHistory #WmnHist
Manchester 1993 Paradise Factory ©StuartLindenRhodes as @LindenArchives Books & Prints at www.pariahpress.com #photography #queerart #queerhistory #gayart #gaybook Photographs may not be used without permission. @pariahpress.bsky.social
On this day in queer history: 17 April 1725
Dutch sailor Leendert Hasenbosch is marooned for sodomy and dies alone on Ascension Island, leaving behind a haunting diary.
#QueerHistory #Ascension
🖼 Anonymous court artists, Yongzheng's Screen of Twelve Beauties, early Qing dynasty. Palace Museum, Beijing. Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Original composition by SRQA. #QueerHistory #ChineseHistory #AsianQueer #SapphicHistory #ChinesePoetry
In San Francisco, it was at Dash on Pacific Street. “Fairies” cruised Barbary Coast saloons & the Presidio for quick encounters, usually for oral sex. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #QueerHistory
Little wrote in one of his letters:
“I haven’t the slightest doubt that they did ‘queer’ things as you call them but which I am assured are perfect natural &have always thought so you know.”
HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #QueerHistory
Black and white photograph of Joe Meek and the Honeycombs. Joe and the male Honeycombs members all wear black suits and ties with white button downs under them. Anne/“Honey” Lantree wears a knee length fitted sleeveless black dress. They are standing outside, Joe and Honey are holding a frame with a golden record in it.
A newspapers article from August 19. 1928, it is titled with "a book that must be suppressed" and has a picture of Radclyffe Hall in it, the article it self is photographed in too low resolution to be easily readable
What does a banned book from 1928 have to do with a 60s No.1 single? 🧵
The Honeycombs debut "Have I the right?" got them straight to No.1 not just in the UK but multiple countries. The story how their producer
#musichistory #musicsky #queerhistory #queersky #LGBT+ #60s #60smusic #thehoneycombs
Birmingham 1992 @thenightingaleclub ©StuartLindenRhodes as @LindenArchives Books & Prints at www.pariahpress.com #photography #queerart #queerhistory #gayart #gaybook Photographs may not be used without permission. @pariahpress.bsky.social
On this day in queer history: 16 April 2012
Katie Ricks becomes the first openly lesbian ordained by the Presbyterian Church, marking a shift toward LGBTQ+ inclusion in faith communities.
#QueerHistory #KatieRicks #PresbyterianChurch
Look what just arrived in the mail! Such inspiring work about queer women in Nazi Germany by @schuneke.bsky.social! Congratulations!!! #queerhistory
Help save some queer history!
#LGBT #queerhistory
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DYK the #HanDynasty Emperor Ai Ti, (27-1 BCE) cut his sleeve rather than wake his lover Tung Hsien? To this day in #China, “tuan-hsiu”, "the cut sleeve", means an #erotic link between men. Ghosts of #HistSex still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #QueerHistory
“Men committed shameless acts w/men & received in their own persons the due penalty for their error.” Paul blinded himself to the fact that QueerSex is “natural” among animals! Ghosts of #QueerHistory still haunt, & #NaturalLaw is still #doctrine. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
A boy riding a toy unicorn, smiling, while another boy on a bicycle watches, with text saying "Good morning, time for rainbows & sunshine."
Good Morning Queers & Weirdos! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🤓🌞
Uncle Gary had a few “technical adventures” 😅 so the new episode drops this evening thanks for sticking with me!
Now drink your coffee ☕, take your fiber 💊, and remember you’re loved. ❤️😘
#Podcast #LGBTQStories #QueerHistory
DYK female #porcupines get off by scooting along while dragging a branch between their legs? Many animals like #orgasm w/nonprocreative #SexPlay. We’ve seen it in 1,500 species so far. Blog7 HowSexGotScrewedUp.com. #bestiality #GayHistory #HistSex #LGBThistory #QueerHistory
©StuartLindenRhodes as @LindenArchives Books & Prints at www.pariahpress.com #photography #queerart #queerhistory #gayart #bisexual #gaybook Photographs may not be used without permission. @prague.pride @photobookpoint @pariahpress.bsky.social @gaysof.bsky.social @bisexualkaiju.myatproto.social
On this day in queer history: 15 April 1979
The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence are founded in San Francisco, blending activism, drag, and radical joy in the fight against stigma. counters turn into quiet revolutions.
#QueerHistory
I'm a 70's alumnus of Inglenook Community High School, in the historic Sackville Street Public School in Toronto. Went way overboard, ended up telling the deep history of Toronto.
#cdnhist #lawsky #queerhistory #cdnpoli #TorontoHistory #memoir #1970s #LGBTQ
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🎙️DYKON Story Hour w/ Linda Tillery + Vicki Randle is next week! Register at www.eventbrite.com/e/1985478658...!
📖We have updated location info: join us in Room 274 at CCSF's Mission Campus!
#dyke #queerhistory #sarahbushdanceproject #sbdp #oakland #bayarea #dance #herstory #dykeherstorydancetour
“and often introduces me to the best of society, ladies as well as gentlemen. There isn’t a girl about Leicester Square but what would like to have me for her man, but I did find it more to my interest not to waste my time, and is quite as enjoyable.”
#QueerHistory
They also wandered Montmartre in Paris, the Retiro in Madrid, & Unter den Linden in Berlin. They called 17 different places in Amsterdam their own, & were comfortable everywhere in Naples. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #QueerHistory
On this day in queer history: 14 April 2014
Malta becomes the first European nation to constitutionally protect gender identity—an important milestone for trans rights.
#QueerHistory #TransRights #Malta
Blending queer theory with political and intellectual history, Huneke explores how sexuality shapes the relationship between citizens and the state, as well as why contemporary progressivism struggles to articulate new possibilities.
#PoliticalHistory #QueerHistory
OUT IN PRINT - Ethelene Whitmire's book explores the life of a gay Black man fighting to survive in Europe during WWII.
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#ReedPegram #BlackQueerHistory #LGBTQHistory #Paris1930s #QueerBiography #BlackLiterature #LGBTQBooks #QueerHistory #HarlemRenaissance #LGBTQArchive