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Arthur Jeffress (1905/ 1961) was an influential gallery owner, collector, and patron of the arts in post-World War II Britain. As one of “The Bright Young Things “ in the 1920s and 1930s he was conspicuous mostly as a rich playboy and socialite. During much of the 1930s, Jeffress's partner was John Deakin, who was know for his “acid-tongued... wit", and later became a photographer of the Soho art scene in the 1950s. Jeffress committed suicide in 1961, the reasons for his death remain unknown but there was speculation that an incident in Venice, where he live part time and employed two handsome young gondoliers, were out carousing when the Duchess of Windsor requested a boat ride home. Jeffress furious, fired the gondoliers but (it is alleged) that in revenge they denounced him as a homosexual to the homophobic Venetian authorities, who were endeavouring to purge foreign homosexuals from the city at that time. He exiled himself in Paris, where he died. A friend close to Jeffress stated, “Arthur... came finally to the point of wondering whether the world wanted him or not.” After his death his art became part of the collection to the Tate and Southampton City Art Gallery.

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Born into a well-known Swedish family of minor nobility, his position allowed him to make photographs that were extremely homoerotic without fear of censure (even though it was seen as scandalous). Like Oscar Wilde, he preferred working-class youths or military men and documented them at rest, often in highly charged sexual scenarios with many of these men being sexual partners. Carl von Platen (1863 -1929) was a Swedish photographer, who in 1903 was brought up on charges of “indecency” in Stockholm City Court. But earlier Carl von Platen's father declared to the Court that his son was mentally unbalanced, due to his homosexual inclination, therefore he had to be declared incapacitated. Whether this was to save the family reputation or save his son from jail remains unanswered. The fact that von Platen was declared disabled had no adverse effect on his upper-class lifestyle. After a stay in a psychiatric center, he continued his travels and his activity as a poet and writer. No other photographs are known. Other than the fact that von Platen was declared disabled, there was no adverse effect on his upper-class lifestyle. After a stay in a psychiatric center, he continued his travels and his activity as a poet and writer. There are no other known photographs other than those originally confiscated by the Stockholm police. However, von Platen was arrested by the police for the second time, 15 years later. This time when he tried to kiss a boy in the elevator of the hotel. Little more is known about von Platen except that he seems to have had private means and spent most of his time travelling on the continent collecting autographs and visiting opera houses, concert halls and theatres. He died at the age of 66, with his original diagnosis of being mentally disabled due to his sexual identity.

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George Walton and Reg Mickisch first met each other in 1949, in an underground London gay bar. Back then, George was a professional photographer and Reg was a shop window dresser. Together, they traveled for years through Europe, before settling in Darowen, rural Wales, in the early 1970s. There they ran a successful lodging in their house, called Rhiw Goch (The Red Hill, in Welsh).

George and Reg officially got married in February 2006. After 62 years together, Reg passed away in the summer of 2011, followed five weeks later by George – they were 84 and 94 year old, respectively.

George and Reg's life story was chronicled by Mike Parker in his book On the Red Hill (2019). The couple left Rhiw Goch to Parker and his husband.

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“Anyone can be gay – it’s no accomplishment – but only I can be me.” … Tall, blue-eyed, movie-star handsome and gifted with enormous personal charm, Pulitzer Prize winner, composer, diarist, Ned Rorem died November 18, 2022, at the age of 99. Rorem was openly gay at a time when writers like Tennessee Williams, Gore Vidal, and Truman Capote were still hiding out and treating gay experience, if at all, as a literary device disconnected from their personal lives. “The Paris Diaries” was called “worldly, intelligent, licentious, highly indiscreet.” stirring up controversy, largely because of its honest first-person account of the Ned’s sex life, which was both gay and many-partnered at a time when neither of those things were discussed. Rorems music includes operas, concertante, piano music as well as choral, chamber and orchestral work. For more than 30 years, Rorem's life partner had been organist James Holmes, who died of AIDS complications devastated Rorems life , stating that that he “no longer looked forward to anything” yet Rorem went on to play a larger part in bringing out AIDS awareness. A man of music and words, people who loved and were loved in return… a man true to himself.

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John Wesley Work III

John Wesley Work III (July 15, 1901 - May 17, 1967) was a composer, educator, choral director, musicologist and scholar of African-American folklore and music.

Biography

He was born on July 15, 1901, in Tullahoma, Tennessee, to a family of professional musicians. His grandfather, John Wesley Work, was a church choir director in Nashville, where he wrote and arranged music for his choirs. Some of his choristers were members of the original Fisk Jubilee Singers. His father, John Wesley Work, Jr., was a singer, folksong collector and professor of music, Latin, and history at Fisk, and his mother, Agnes Haynes Work, was a singer who helped train the Fisk group. His uncle, Frederick Jerome Work, also collected and arranged folksongs, and his brother, Julian, became a professional musician and composer.

Work began his musical training at the Fisk University Laboratory School, moving on to the Fisk High School and then the university, where he received a B.A. degree in 1923. After graduation, he attended the Institute of Musical Art in New York City (now the Juilliard School of Music), where he studied with Gardner Lamson. He returned to Fisk and began teaching in 1927, spending summers in New York studying with Howard Talley and Samuel Gardner. In 1930 he received an M.A. degree from Columbia University with his thesisAmerican Negro Songs and Spirituals. He was awarded two Julius Rosenwald Foundation Fellowships for the years 1931 to 1933 and, using these to take two years leave from Fisk, he obtained a B.Mus. degree from Yale University in 1933.

Work spent the remainder of his career at Fisk, until his retirement in 1966. He served in a variety of positions, notably as a teacher, chairman of the Fisk University Department of Music, and director of the Fisk Jubilee Singers from 1947 until 1956. He published articles in professional journals and dictionaries over a span of more than thirty years. His best known articles were “Plantation Meistersingers” in The Musical Quarterly (Jan. 1940), and “Changing Patterns in Negro Folksongs” in the Journal of American Folklore(Oct. 1940). In 1953, he was a member of the charter class of the Zeta Rho Chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity, the national fraternity for men in music. The Fisk chapter was the third chapter of the Fraternity chartered at a historically black college or university, the first being chartered at Howard University in 1952.

Work began composing while still in high school and continued throughout his career, completing over one hundred compositions in a variety of musical forms—for full orchestra, piano, chamber ensemble, violin and organ—but his largest output was in choral and solo-voice music. He was awarded first prize in the 1946 competition of the Federation of American Composers for his cantata The Singers, and in 1947 he received an award from the National Association of Negro Musicians. In 1963 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Fisk University.

Following Work’s collection Negro Folk Songs, the bulk of which was recorded at Fort Valley, he and two colleagues from Fisk University, Charles S. Johnson, head of the department of sociology (later, in October 1946, chosen as the university’s first black president), and Lewis Jones, professor of sociology, collaborated with the Archive of American Folk Song on the Library of Congress/Fisk University Mississippi Delta Collection (AFC 1941/002). This project was a two-year joint field study conducted by the Library of Congress and Fisk University during the summers of 1941 and 1942. The goal of the partnership was to carry out an intensive field study documenting the folk culture of a specific community of African Americans in the Mississippi Delta region. The rapidly urbanizing commercial area of Coahoma County, Mississippi, with its county seat in Clarksdale, became the geographical focus of the study. Some of the correspondence included in this collection between Work and Alan Lomax, then head of the Archive of American Folk Song, touches on both the Fort Valley and the emerging Fisk University recording projects.

John Wesley Work died on May 17, 1967.

http://wikipedia.thetimetube.com/?q=John+Wesley+Work+III&lang=en

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Madonna, DJ Jellybean Benitez , Liz Rosenberg and Jean-Michel Basquiat captured by Andy Warhol at the Like a Virgin album release party at Private Eyes nightclub in New York City, 1984.

Andy Warhol’s diary entry (November 7, 1984):

I went to Private Eyes (cab $7). Scott was at the door, so he let us right in. Madonna was on the platform and since Jean Michel had once been involved with her, we started to go up, and the bouncer said, “Step aside for Mr. Warhol,” and then tried to block Jean Michel and I said that it was okay, he was with me. And Madonna kissed Jean Michel on the mouth but she was with Jellybean, who said he’d heard his pictures in Interview made him look 6’ tall so he was thrilled because he’s 2’. And Jean Michel was moody because Madonna got so big and he’d lost her. And Dianne Brill tried to get on the platform and the guy just pushed her back and I said, “Don’t you know who this is? It’s Dianne Brill,” but he still wouldn’t let her up. And she was so conspicuous in her rubber outfit and Frederick’s of Hollywood stuff and everything, so she was really humiliated and that’s the way things go—you think you have so much pizzazz and then something like that happens in front of your friends. It’s happened to me. Sometime, someplace, it happens to everybody. And I told her I’d talk to the P.R. girl but she said no, that it was okay.

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Xavier Foley encore performance with the Akron Symphony of his work Etude No. 10 "The Dance"

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"Brown Chapel" per Xavier Foley

Composer: Xavier Foley

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When the anti "LGBT propaganda" law passed in Russia, all of you were going insane and cared. Give Georgia the same energy. If you can have sympathy for our oppressors on the basis of them being queer, you should keep the same energy for us, if not more.

If this law passes, every Georgian queer person I know is so severely fucked, myself included. If you make jokes about "being illegal in several countries" you better fucking care about the countries you're apparently illegal in, or going to be illegal in.

Make sure to spread this around. This is important.

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Jacob being very excited about a Louis plushie gifted to him by @lioncunt and made by @inkalope

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INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE 1.01 "In Throes Of Increasing Wonder..."

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... born this way. ❤️💛💚💙🩵💜🤎🖤🩶🤍

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Rafael Silva on set of Lone Star Season 4, via Brianna’s instagram

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... leather and lace.

If Taylor and Nick were desserts, what would they be?!

Nick: Salted caramel fudge

Taylor: Death by chocolate

What's your pick?

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