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collection of chromogenic prints belonging to an unnamed gay couple in the 1970s (via)

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Liberace decorates his house for Christmas on December 16th, 1955. Located on the corner of Valley Vista Blvd. and Sherman Oaks Ave. in the Sherman Oaks suburb of Los Angeles, Liberace went all out during the holidays and 8,000 cars drove by every night to view his twinkling decorations, requiring the LAPD to be stationed out front and direct traffic while Christmas music played and Liberace wished everyone "Merry Christmas" over a speaker system from inside the house. The property also had Liberace's custom designed piano-shaped swimming pool in the back yard, where he posed for Loomis Dean in 1954. Both the house and pool remain intact and largely unchanged seventy years later. The video shows Liberace giving a tour of the L-shaped residence, which he designed himself before it was built in 1953. Liberace lived in the home with his mother, Frances, until 1958 when they had to vacate the property due to fans scaling the fence, randos constantly knocking on the door, and Frances being attacked in the garage by two masked men when she was taking out garbage to burn in the back yard incinerator. The attack was believed to be related to Liberace's $20,000,000 libel suit and court battle with Confidential magazine after the gossip rag published a (not untrue) story entitled "Why Liberace's Theme Song Should be 'Mad About the Boy'" in 1957, outing him as a gay man (which would've destroyed his career at the time, even though it was fairly obvious to most people that Liberace's flamboyant manner and the fact that he lived with his mother leaned heavily towards the likelihood that he preferred the company of gentlemen; sadly, living a high profile openly gay lifestyle in the buttoned-down 1950s wasn't an option that was available to him or other celebrities of the era). Frances, 65 at the time, was brutally attacked hours after Liberace gave a deposition regarding the libel suit, and she stated that after running to the kitchen she was kicked in the back by one of the men who said "this should give him (Liberace) something to laugh about". Hospitalized due to her injuries, armed guards were posted outside both Liberace's home and his brother George's residence in Van Nuys. A family spokesperson issued a statement to the press following the incident, bluntly saying: "I feel this whole thing is connected to the Confidential suit. Somebody is trying to frighten us." Liberace and his mother re-located to his Palm Springs property soon after, and he later purchased a more secure gated mansion in the Hollywood Hills where he had a fabulous view of the nearby lgbtq+ friendly neighborhood of West Hollywood.

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Source: The Butch/Femme Photo Project , by Wendi Kali

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"Linda/Les and Annie: The First Female-to-Male Transsexual Love Story" (1989) a docu-porn about Annie Sprinkle’s relationship with transsexual Les Nichols as he transitions from female to male. We follow Les through hormone treatments and surgery. The ending has Annie and Les sleeping together after Les has gender affirming surgery (a vaginal preserving phalloplasty.) This was the first FTM pornographic film & it screened at over 100 film festivals. (watch in full here 18+)

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Source: Lesbians On The Loose ( January 1997 • Issue 85 • Vol 8 No 1 )

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I was Lord Kitchener's Valet / Carnaby Street

Design by 'Hans' (c.1969)

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Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special (1988)

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Christmas with Tab Hunter, circa 1954.

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Lesbian satirical etching from 1820 entitled "Amorous Ladys, or Tete-a-Tete Ex-strachnary," made by William Heath

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Two ladies embrace, seated on a sofa, not noticing the entry of their husbands. One, Lady Strachan, says: "You know my dear Sarah I love you very well yet I must reserve a few Kisses for the worthy old Ad-l." Lady Warwick: "Oh never mind him, my Sweet Louisa he's undeserving your embrace's and only fit for walking the Quarter Deck." In the doorway is Sir Richard Strachan, in admiral's uniform, followed by Lord Warwick, indicated by a paper or pamphlet: 'Warwick Gude'

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GET TO KNOW ME MEME ♡ movies → FRIED GREEN TOMATOES

“See, now is a time for courage. I guess you already know that there are angels masquerading as people walking around this planet and your mom was the bravest one of those.”

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Steve Dain, Drag (1976)

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"Anyone feeling shame about their bodies, their human desires. We about to cast that shit out because we are women. We aren't the pure image of perfection. We are messy, beautiful, horny, and some of us, are heavily pregnant and very hungry."

2024 favourites: We Are Lady Parts, S02E04 'Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood' Dir. Nida Manzoor.

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James Baldwin in Istanbul, 1965.

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Joni playing pinball in her home in LA, 1998

Photo by Guido Harari

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Joan Jett