#queer underground

[mansion1of7]

Some queer underground heat ‼️

[sheltiechicago]

Reynaldo Rivera, Connie Rivera and Mario Calvano, Echo Park, 1990

The Glamorous World of LA’s Vanished Queer Underground

Reynaldo Rivera’s photographs of trans women, drag artists, and Latinx scenesters are a thrilling account of 1990s-era nightlife.

All photographs courtesy the artist

Reynaldo Rivera, Richard Villegas Jr., friend, and Enrique, Miracle Mile, 1996

Reynaldo Rivera, Girls, El Conquistador, 1997

Reynaldo Rivera, Vanessa, Silverlake Lounge, 1995

[giddlywinks]

Giddy Mag #7: The Graces: Jones and Ives

They speak for themselves. Enjoy the radiance.

Learn a little something about iconography.

"Sometimes, there's a man who is so beautiful that you feel your heart crack open, and all of the water you didn't know you had falls at their unwashed feet."

"Affection 1"

"Deep in the water, my brilliance blossomed and grew feet and walked until it found me just to say, yes, you are so lovely and good, like your life has always been promised."

Hold it. You never know you just might need it.

"Yeah, I remember."

The poem is from Ocean Vuong's collection Night Sky With Exit Wounds.

"If there is no owl, I'd settle for a pigeon just to know you're listening."

Grace Jones:

Taurus Sun, Libra Moon, Sagittarius Rising

(We share a moon.)

When was the last time you prayed to serve cunt?

"When I hit the water, I opened the door, asked my questions, blessed my answers, and left my baptism on time's unending fire."

Grace Ives:

Aries Sun, Taurus Moon, Rising Unknown...

(My Taurus is in my 10th House. My Midheaven is in Aries.)

"A tithe made good into a bell into a whisper into a joy in the middle of fear into gorgeous grace and defiance into the precious absolutely miraculous. I will never stop finding you."

Lovely, isn't she?

Make a wish to God...

What if it did come true?

[brainwormcity]

I will never get over how inherently tied to the lgbtq community Crowley's canonical music tastes are. Both Queen and Velvet Underground had visibly queer leads who weren't afraid to step out of typical societal gender presentation. Not to mention that Lou Reed openly dated trans folks. You can pry Crowley's queerness from my cold dead hands.

[deathdisc]

Please share this around !! The second issue of my book is out 🫀

[snidemollusk]

Alphabet soup

[schlock-luster-video]

On October 11, 1974, Female Trouble premiered in Baltimore, Maryland.

[prazske-metro]

ač právě skončil prague pride, u nás začal prague underground pride: namísto tramvají teď vlajky nosí vlaky metra, která šíří důležité poselství: veřejné dopravní prostředky není nutno kombinovat jen způsobem metro+tramvaj nebo metro+autobus: validní a úplná cesta do práce či do školy může být i dvěma metry 🏳️‍🌈 [když člověk přestupuje]

též pražské metro zastává názor, že by vlaky měly mít volbu, zda chtějí jezdit nad zemí či pod zemí (či jinde), aniž by musely procházet povinnou sterilizací 🏳️‍⚧️

[phantomladyoverparis]

Les intrigues de Sylvia Couski (1975), dir. Adolfo Arrieta  

[gr00vyvampiregrrrl]

Mgna crrrta live at crave

[midwestmunster]

John Waters, 1970s

[munadrawson]

🐙🦑🍓🍓🍓💕

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Here are some more of them being sillies. And I can't draw chibis.

[stagefoureddiediaz]

Something something trapped kid in a pipe at a home renovation and his older brother going in to save him Eddie and saving his sisters from their parents and Eddie reconstructing his life in the aftermath of Shannon…

[bitter69uk]

Today is World AIDS day, which makes me reflect on the creative, vibrant and talented generation of people wiped out in their prime in the early days of the scourge – like pioneering American performance artist, photographer, one of the architects of no-budget DIY underground queer cinema and all-round twisted visionary to be mentioned in the same breath as Jean Genet, Andy Warhol, Kenneth Anger, the Kuchar brothers and James Bidgood, that flaming creature Jack Smith (14 November 1932 – 18 September 1989). To grasp the wild world of this “filth elder” and role model for the ages, I would point you to the exemplary 2006 documentary Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis by Mary Jordan, which I watched on YouTube recently – but it has since been yanked down and seemingly isn’t streaming anywhere else! The doc featured a who’s who of American underground culture (like Gary Indiana, Mary Woronov, John Zorn, Mario Montez, Nick Zedd, Judith Malina, Holly Woodlawn and George Kuchar) reminiscing about their encounters with him. Smith was famously uncompromising and curmudgeonly and died destitute. As an exasperated John Waters recalls in the doc, Smith “bit every hand that could have fed him”. For example, Smith loathed the idea of art galleries or museums screening his work (“Who else was going to show ‘em?” Waters asks). However you cut it, Smith was an outrageous original and an integral figure in the aesthetic we now call “camp” or “kitsch.” We are forever in his debt!

[kazoolol]

FARMER!!!!

[byler-alarmist]

It feels actually insane to be alive and also involved in fandom right now. The world we live in is getting infinitely shittier with the looming threat of even more terrible things on the horizon, but you'd never know it in the fandom world because there is SO MUCH to look forward to.

Your favorite shows have begun filming the new season! Your favorite character has a very good chance of being revealed as queer! Your favorite fanon couple actually has a good shot at being canon endgame! Long-standing mysteries may finally get answered! Bonus material has been filmed and may be released!

My one fear is that the real world getting shittier could bleed into the fandom space and prevent our joys, leading to cancellations and rewrites and removal from streaming, effectively undoing all the progress we've seen.

Still, I remain hopeful that we can keep this momentum. There is a window of opportunity right now for stories that couldn't be told in the past, and we must continue to uplift them!

Also, we all need to commit to physical media and bootlegging copjes where they don't exist. We need to preserve our shows when they air, lest they become lost media under future oppressive regimes.