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Tag: lgbtq history

Kevin Aviance

Kevin Aviance’s “Cunty” Remains a Legendary & Impactful Song

standing at over six feet tall, kevin aviance annihilated social expectations of gender expression all while conquering ballroom and dance…
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Posted on: July 30, 2022 Last updated on: July 30, 2022 Comments: 0 Written by: louie

SAM HARRIS

decades before american idol opened the floodgates for the talent show genre of reality tv, there was the ultimate variety…
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Posted on: July 30, 2022 Last updated on: July 30, 2022 Comments: 0 Written by: louie

The Enduring Queer Cheer of Pee-Wee Herman’s Christmas Special

33 years ago this week, one of the wackiest, campiest, and queerest christmas specials premiered on network television– and it…
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Posted on: December 25, 2021 Last updated on: December 25, 2021 Comments: 0 Written by: louie

OCTAVIA ST. LAURENT

today we remember, celebrate and speak the name of octavia st. laurent. born on march 16, 1964, octavia would go…
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Posted on: March 14, 2020 Last updated on: March 20, 2020 Comments: 0 Written by: louie

That Time When The White House Press Room Erupted In Laughter About The Then Growing AIDS Epidemic

a few days ago, i logged into this very account and saw that a mutual posted a meme that read,…
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Posted on: March 8, 2020 Last updated on: April 6, 2020 Comments: 0 Written by: louie

WHITNEY HOUSTON

whitney houston was a queer icon decades before the term became a marketing ploy. she was one of us before,…
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Posted on: February 11, 2020 Last updated on: February 11, 2021 Comments: 0 Written by: louie

JESSE TORRES

the telling of our history can sometimes confine people to one of two categories: those who made history and those…
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Posted on: March 12, 2019 Last updated on: March 20, 2020 Comments: 0 Written by: louie

Forgotten AIDS Episode of Forgotten 80’s Sitcom

in the fall of 1989, i was a 12 year-old fem as fuck youth who hungered for any queer representation…
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Posted on: December 3, 2018 Last updated on: June 27, 2020 Comments: 0 Written by: louie
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