Nicolas Faure. Goodbye Manhattan. 1984

Brush factory, Loughborough, 2022.

“Fuck your gender”

New York City Dyke March, June, 1995, via lesbianherstoryarchives /ig

"We do not have the responsibility of making gay life look good to straights so that they will accept us. I am not at all interested in promoting a cleaned up image to a straight world which is twice as corrupt and ten times as sick."

Vito Russo

Photography by Betty Lane, 1978

HOLLOW TRIUMPH 1948 | Steve Sekely

A Comedy in Six Unnatural Acts (1975) dir. Jan Oxenberg

scenes from the last week of summer, 2023

Maggie Cheung as Su Li-Zhen

In The Mood For Love 花樣年華 (2000) dir. Wong Kar-Wai

Al Pacino as Michael Corleone

THE GODFATHER PART II (1974) dir. Francis Ford Coppola

my dumb? founded. my flabbers? gasted. my gob??? smacked

In August 1939, LIFE magazine sent photographer Charles Peterson to shoot an assignment which was never featured in the magazine. This invitation only jam session was organized by jazz guitarist Eddie Condon and promoter Ernie Anderson. It took place in New York at the Riverside Drive apartment of cartoonist Burris Jenkins. The guest list included Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Ivie Anderson, Hot Lips Page, Billie Holiday, Harry Lim, Pee Wee Russell, Johnny Hodges, Chu Berry, Cozy Cole, Clyde Newcombe, Bud Freeman, and Dave Tough.