https://www.historicalhomos.com/events daily 0.75 2023-05-23 https://www.historicalhomos.com/events/2023/6/7/historical-homos-podcast-launch-party monthly 0.5 2023-05-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab38b72e2ccd14cc02b2e79/08078db2-ab7b-42e2-be8d-dd88df593b39/HH+Invite+Final.png EVENTS - Historical Homos: Launch Pride Party! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.historicalhomos.com/events/2023/queerhistoryfordummies monthly 0.5 2023-05-20 https://www.historicalhomos.com/events/hhcomingout monthly 0.5 2018-12-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab38b72e2ccd14cc02b2e79/1545926626456-PSWPUDXSMSAAWXSY9MA1/HH_+save+the+date.jpg EVENTS - Historical Homos: The Coming Out Party https://www.historicalhomos.com/events/hhholidaze2018 monthly 0.5 2018-11-28 https://www.historicalhomos.com/events/2018/nightof100homos monthly 0.5 2018-10-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab38b72e2ccd14cc02b2e79/1539783204411-J5CG58JWMY1RUQ8833U5/halloween_promo.jpg EVENTS - NIGHT OF 100 HOMOS - The Gayest Halloween in History https://www.historicalhomos.com/events/2018/4/3/pop-up-gallery-gay-soire monthly 0.5 2018-04-08 https://www.historicalhomos.com/queeriosities daily 0.75 2023-08-04 https://www.historicalhomos.com/queeriosities/podcastplayer monthly 0.5 2023-08-04 https://www.historicalhomos.com/queeriosities/2023/5/22/historical-homos-has-a-trailer-ok-weve-made-it monthly 0.5 2023-05-22 https://www.historicalhomos.com/queeriosities/2023/historicalhomos-podcast-announcement monthly 0.5 2023-04-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab38b72e2ccd14cc02b2e79/2cbd8dab-2b76-4929-9269-c9bde80cb142/Deadlinew+HH+psych%21.png QUEERIOSITIES - Historical Homos Live! Podcast & Web Series Announcement - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.historicalhomos.com/queeriosities/2023/1/26/tuer-shen-the-chinese-rabbit-god-of-gay-sex-and-love monthly 0.5 2023-01-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab38b72e2ccd14cc02b2e79/8b5d4993-923e-4340-80cc-be153af67965/rabbit-god-01.jpeg QUEERIOSITIES - Tu'er Shen: The Chinese "Rabbit God" of Gay Sex and Love - Make it stand out “Kiss of the Rabbit,” short film, 2019 / © Andrew Thomas Huang https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab38b72e2ccd14cc02b2e79/689b9b60-487e-47ec-a99c-cb6bdc98255f/production-da3847330091147f209132ff1fbd8ea0-54222278_1917907321671040_7150536947683819520_o.jpeg QUEERIOSITIES - Tu'er Shen: The Chinese "Rabbit God" of Gay Sex and Love - Make it stand out “Kiss of the Rabbit,” short film, 2019 / © Andrew Thomas Huang https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab38b72e2ccd14cc02b2e79/e447e8fa-67f1-4213-81e4-2fa291f7f4f2/Screen+Shot+2023-01-29+at+2.37.25+PM.jpg QUEERIOSITIES - Tu'er Shen: The Chinese "Rabbit God" of Gay Sex and Love - Make it stand out Hot boys from a new “danmei” (“boys’ love”) show in China called “Word of Honor” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab38b72e2ccd14cc02b2e79/ccbe05f7-4346-40c8-8ce5-bed55fb68cd2/photo+andrew+thomas+huang.jpeg QUEERIOSITIES - Tu'er Shen: The Chinese "Rabbit God" of Gay Sex and Love - Make it stand out © Andrew Thomas Huang / Scribd https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab38b72e2ccd14cc02b2e79/ace10dbf-a657-41ff-a679-f772146da802/%E6%B5%B7%E9%BE%8D%E7%8E%8B%2C_British_Museum.jpeg QUEERIOSITIES - Tu'er Shen: The Chinese "Rabbit God" of Gay Sex and Love - Make it stand out An extremely hot print of divine dom daddy Dragon King / Wikipedia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab38b72e2ccd14cc02b2e79/aeca6815-5903-423c-8771-15c2cd96f85b/Dong_Xian.jpeg QUEERIOSITIES - Tu'er Shen: The Chinese "Rabbit God" of Gay Sex and Love - Make it stand out Emperor Ai having his sleeve cut, so his lover Dong Xian could continue sleeping (and ruining the STATE) / Wikipedia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab38b72e2ccd14cc02b2e79/37538bbd-29ba-49ce-ab23-354c0e9823af/xiyadie.jpg QUEERIOSITIES - Tu'er Shen: The Chinese "Rabbit God" of Gay Sex and Love - Make it stand out Check out the little rabbit - bottom left! © Xiadiye / BBC https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab38b72e2ccd14cc02b2e79/c961a1c5-dd08-41d7-9128-fbaf44a2ca35/_97714038_800f8877-6a26-420c-890f-827cc7f30bb3.jpg QUEERIOSITIES - Tu'er Shen: The Chinese "Rabbit God" of Gay Sex and Love - Make it stand out What I imagine Tu’er Shen might have been wearing in 2005 © Shiy De-Jinn / BBC https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab38b72e2ccd14cc02b2e79/55f71044-f02e-4d5e-b3dd-87204ff40bdc/185778790_2843282435928441_5355697609996566694_n.jpeg QUEERIOSITIES - Tu'er Shen: The Chinese "Rabbit God" of Gay Sex and Love - Make it stand out Look! Even white gays are worshipping at the altar of Tu’er Shen / © Nomadic Boys / Facebook https://www.historicalhomos.com/queeriosities/2022/10/10/celebrating-indigenous-peoples-day-the-queer-way- monthly 0.5 2023-09-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab38b72e2ccd14cc02b2e79/370747db-4c1c-4b63-a44f-72b5eaf0612e/osh-tisch.jpeg QUEERIOSITIES - Celebrating Indigenous Peoples' Day: A History of Queer, Indigenous Resistance - Make it stand out Osh-Tisch (left), whose name translates to “Finds Them and Kills Them,” was a Crow warrior, artist, and shaman who lived from 1854-1929. She was also a “badé,” a Crow word that historically referred to AMAB (Assigned Male At Birth) people who lived, worked, and dressed as women. Image via Whores of Yore (Twitter). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab38b72e2ccd14cc02b2e79/3eef5061-a418-4c76-a615-862ba82de8ac/download.png QUEERIOSITIES - Celebrating Indigenous Peoples' Day: A History of Queer, Indigenous Resistance - Make it stand out Detail from George Catlin’s Dance to the Berdash, 1835-1837, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum. This was apparently an annual religious dance that honored the berdache(s) in the community. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab38b72e2ccd14cc02b2e79/72a39265-abcb-4d7d-9b1f-ae78c2a688e6/Screen+Shot+2022-10-10+at+2.08.58+PM.png QUEERIOSITIES - Celebrating Indigenous Peoples' Day: A History of Queer, Indigenous Resistance - Make it stand out Lukas Avendaño’s “Lukas y José ” (2017). Photo: Mario Patiño. Image via New York Times. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab38b72e2ccd14cc02b2e79/62a5ddfb-3a87-4f51-a4de-29fc01fa86c1/We-Wa%2C_a_Zuni_berdache%2C_weaving_-_NARA_-_523796_%28cropped%29.jpeg QUEERIOSITIES - Celebrating Indigenous Peoples' Day: A History of Queer, Indigenous Resistance - Make it stand out We’Wha, a Zuni lhamana, works at a loom. “Lhamana” was the Zuni word for people assigned male at birth who lived as women. We’Wha was one of the most famous “berdaches” of her day, and even represented her people on an embassy to President Grover Cleveland in 1886. https://www.historicalhomos.com/queeriosities/2022/9/27/taking-back-our-history-2022 monthly 0.5 2022-10-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab38b72e2ccd14cc02b2e79/f94527a6-314a-48fd-b78b-41d47fb2bba0/credit-ted-eytan.jpg QUEERIOSITIES - TAKING BACK OUR HISTORY: How to Celebrate LGBTQ+ History Month - Make it stand out Protesters in Florida campaigning against the “Don’t Say Gay Bill” (Image source: HRC) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab38b72e2ccd14cc02b2e79/d3b708fc-f9b2-4e3d-bb76-de38c602fede/10269239_10152480181882755_5171918267709961033_o.jpeg QUEERIOSITIES - TAKING BACK OUR HISTORY: How to Celebrate LGBTQ+ History Month - Make it stand out Here is a picture of me as a young, smiling, very beautiful history student circa 2014. https://www.historicalhomos.com/queeriosities/christopher-marlowe monthly 0.5 2021-04-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab38b72e2ccd14cc02b2e79/1589734665171-D7P6R739WCR91XBM36OW/Miniature_of_Henry_Wriothesley%2C_3rd_Earl_of_Southampton%2C_1594._%28Fitzwilliam_Museum%29_cropped.png QUEERIOSITIES - Christopher Marlowe, A Messy Bitch Who Lived For Drama Earl of Southampton, aged 21. By Nicholas Hilliard. (Wikimedia) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab38b72e2ccd14cc02b2e79/1589731792655-M539I8773HLFZ4DVDZ96/Mark-Rylance-02-GQ_19Jan15_rex_b.jpg QUEERIOSITIES - Christopher Marlowe, A Messy Bitch Who Lived For Drama A beautifully dragged up Mark Rylance as Olivia in Shakespeare’s Twelfe Night. (GQ) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab38b72e2ccd14cc02b2e79/1589728617467-B6IEPEA5ABHYLCWWIKFX/ermine+portrait.jpg QUEERIOSITIES - Christopher Marlowe, A Messy Bitch Who Lived For Drama The Ermine Portrait, depicting Queen Elizabeth I around 1585. What a ferociously bad bitch. (Wikimedia) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab38b72e2ccd14cc02b2e79/1589728844471-RYC2N3FIH5CBK44DZLPP/tamburlaine-sitefinity.tmb-gal-670.jpg QUEERIOSITIES - Christopher Marlowe, A Messy Bitch Who Lived For Drama Antony Sher as Tamburlaine The Great, performed by the RSC in 1993. (RSC) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab38b72e2ccd14cc02b2e79/1589728534480-WWSKRKHZ0DIFGOHY3QKN/corpus+christi+cambridge.jpg QUEERIOSITIES - Christopher Marlowe, A Messy Bitch Who Lived For Drama Corpus Christi College on a good day. Cambridge, England. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab38b72e2ccd14cc02b2e79/1589730296882-PXOI5VHRPAJKP7UUP98P/mary+queen+fo+scots.jpg QUEERIOSITIES - Christopher Marlowe, A Messy Bitch Who Lived For Drama Mary, Queen of Scots. 1570s-80s. Always getting up in Elizabeth’s bidness. (Wikimedia) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab38b72e2ccd14cc02b2e79/1589732027397-FI4YVTVDA2VSECQ9705Y/marlowe+crop+1_05_17_20.jpg QUEERIOSITIES - Christopher Marlowe, A Messy Bitch Who Lived For Drama “All they that love not tobacco and boys are fools.” This was one of Marlowe’s best known quips, recorded by one of the informants in the investigation against him. © Historical Homos 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab38b72e2ccd14cc02b2e79/1589729335677-QQRK96QGUL0D0FCZ7ZTZ/Nicholas_Hilliard_-_Young_Man_Among_Roses_-_V%26A_P.163-1910.jpg QUEERIOSITIES - Christopher Marlowe, A Messy Bitch Who Lived For Drama “Anonymous Fag Amongst the Roses,” by Nicholas Hilliard. (Wikimedia) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab38b72e2ccd14cc02b2e79/1589732317127-WNYGG07UWYFO615PB3YR/edward+ii.jpg QUEERIOSITIES - Christopher Marlowe, A Messy Bitch Who Lived For Drama Edward II, performed by the Lazarus Theatre Company in London, 2018. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab38b72e2ccd14cc02b2e79/1589732833209-6BFYDY85MKX86Q053X3M/Edward_II_34826_High.jpg QUEERIOSITIES - Christopher Marlowe, A Messy Bitch Who Lived For Drama Derek Jarman’s dope as fuck 1991 film adaptation of Edward II. (FanCarpet) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab38b72e2ccd14cc02b2e79/1589733019578-Z7GZSC8U6DZZ979LHMV0/edward+ii+%28jarman%29+snake+%28via+DVD+Beaver%29+copy.jpeg QUEERIOSITIES - Christopher Marlowe, A Messy Bitch Who Lived For Drama A still from the suggestive opening of Jarman’s Edward II (1991). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab38b72e2ccd14cc02b2e79/1589730929267-6MXHHJEZECMNKYRQBFST/800px-Leonardo_da_Vinci_-_Saint_John_the_Baptist_C2RMF_retouched.jpg QUEERIOSITIES - Christopher Marlowe, A Messy Bitch Who Lived For Drama Leonardo’s St. John the Baptist, looking – admittedly – really gay. (Wikipedia) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab38b72e2ccd14cc02b2e79/1589729975703-7FNGQD5RR3LG6UVAJPB4/Marlowe-people-image.jpg QUEERIOSITIES - Christopher Marlowe, A Messy Bitch Who Lived For Drama The only attributed portrait of Marlowe. No one knows if it’s him but look at that fabulous suit and that gay little face! (Wikimedia) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab38b72e2ccd14cc02b2e79/1589733250168-4UW3GS24HYTSKMA64M6J/DerekJarman_EdwardII_banner-desktop.jpg QUEERIOSITIES - Christopher Marlowe, A Messy Bitch Who Lived For Drama GAY. Edward II, 1991. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab38b72e2ccd14cc02b2e79/1589734243481-3H7L0CI4O1X3FJ4OE1JI/hero+and+leander.jpg QUEERIOSITIES - Christopher Marlowe, A Messy Bitch Who Lived For Drama Hero laments the dead Leander. Jan van den Hoecke, 1637. (Wikimedia) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab38b72e2ccd14cc02b2e79/1589734101589-W4XY8TW2IZVUVDWKGCZ3/edward+ii+%28jarman%29.jpg QUEERIOSITIES - Christopher Marlowe, A Messy Bitch Who Lived For Drama Derek Jarman’s 1991 Edward II was boldly queer in its portrayal of Marlowe’s sexually ambivalent play. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab38b72e2ccd14cc02b2e79/1589728357576-ZQY0823SZMWV99OJXME3/king%27s+school+canterbury.jpg QUEERIOSITIES - Christopher Marlowe, A Messy Bitch Who Lived For Drama The gorgeous King’s School in Canterbury, where Marlowe learned his ABCs. (via Hitched) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab38b72e2ccd14cc02b2e79/1589731031909-8IHONHPNG0ZXAM0FOPPL/dido+queen+of+carthage.jpg QUEERIOSITIES - Christopher Marlowe, A Messy Bitch Who Lived For Drama Frontispiece from an early edition of Dido, Queen of Carthage. 1594. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab38b72e2ccd14cc02b2e79/1589733884732-RWU4DJ32T261WLG7Y3FZ/Elizabeth_I_Rainbow_Portrait+%28Wikimedia%29.jpg QUEERIOSITIES - Christopher Marlowe, A Messy Bitch Who Lived For Drama Elizabeth I’s famous Rainbow Portrait, painted not long before her death in 1603. Her 50-year reign marked the end of the Elizabethan era. (Wikimedia) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab38b72e2ccd14cc02b2e79/1589735426910-ED6LABHC4H35QSRH5HTO/marlowe_05_17_20_indesign.jpg QUEERIOSITIES - Christopher Marlowe, A Messy Bitch Who Lived For Drama Christopher Marlowe. Poet, dramatist, spy. Alias: “Shakesqueer”. © Historical Homos 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab38b72e2ccd14cc02b2e79/1589734476550-H3P9UR1J3RCCM2XJCUBF/Cobbe_Portrait_of_Southampton.jpg QUEERIOSITIES - Christopher Marlowe, A Messy Bitch Who Lived For Drama The handsome young Earl of Southampton, c. 1590-3. Hero and Leander was almost certainly written in dedication to this beautiful youth. Shakespeare would (allegedly) address the lucky lad as well in Venus and Adonis. Attributed to John de Critz. (Wikimedia) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab38b72e2ccd14cc02b2e79/1589733699266-91JG207IWC73NIZ3COBM/NEWmarlowe_web_crop-1_LR.jpg QUEERIOSITIES - Christopher Marlowe, A Messy Bitch Who Lived For Drama Kit Marlowe was the Renaissance James Dean, a rebel with too much cause. © Historical Homos 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab38b72e2ccd14cc02b2e79/1589733157865-E5J9YS9UHWTLTA5VXWSQ/tilda-swinton-edward-ii-derek-jarman-1991-65_o.jpg QUEERIOSITIES - Christopher Marlowe, A Messy Bitch Who Lived For Drama A stunning Tilda Swinton in Jarman’s Edward II, playing Queen Isabel. 1991. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab38b72e2ccd14cc02b2e79/1589735759146-G9FQW039CT25JSAG91YK/marlowe_05_17_20_indesign.jpg QUEERIOSITIES - Christopher Marlowe, A Messy Bitch Who Lived For Drama Christopher Marlowe. Poet, dramatist, spy. Alias: “Shakesqueer”. © Historical Homos 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab38b72e2ccd14cc02b2e79/1589731444568-73ONQU3Z35R6CMASQVPB/Abraham_Janssens_-_Jupiter_Rebuked_by_Venus_-_1986.996_-_Art_Institute_of_Chicago.jpg QUEERIOSITIES - Christopher Marlowe, A Messy Bitch Who Lived For Drama Venus, telling off a very bored Jupiter, who just wants to get back to boning Ganymede. Abraham Janssens, c. 1613. (Wikimedia) https://www.historicalhomos.com/queeriosities/bisexual-blues monthly 0.5 2023-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab38b72e2ccd14cc02b2e79/1587918268294-Y1QDBQLUB0PAN89RUFA9/gladys+bentley.jpeg QUEERIOSITIES - Ma and Bessie: Queens of the Bisexual Blues Gladys Bentley, famed bull-dagger, at the Ubangi Club in Harlem in the early 30s. © Sterling Paige https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab38b72e2ccd14cc02b2e79/1587919345055-4AOG002OZAQWVP6QPMJ4/aida+and+george+walker.png QUEERIOSITIES - Ma and Bessie: Queens of the Bisexual Blues The complicated legacy of vaudeville. George Walker and Bert Williams performed in blackface, while Aida (middle) refused to portray stereotypes. Aida was an accomplished dancer and choreographer who married George and toured Europe with these famous comedians in In Dahomey (1903), the first musical written by African Americans. © Wikimedia Commons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab38b72e2ccd14cc02b2e79/1587922746601-NTF0ZJU7Q2LQEPHNLOJE/bessie+ma_v3_final.jpg QUEERIOSITIES - Ma and Bessie: Queens of the Bisexual Blues Ma and Bessie: Bisexual Queens of the Blues. © Historical Homos 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab38b72e2ccd14cc02b2e79/1587920477728-KZZFCRAS3HLRGLMHTYPZ/bessie+best+hat+ever.jpg QUEERIOSITIES - Ma and Bessie: Queens of the Bisexual Blues Bessie living her best damn life (via Goldmine). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab38b72e2ccd14cc02b2e79/1587920224353-3RZJOUB71WQUXDFD9KOK/bessie+ma_v3_crop+1_new.jpg QUEERIOSITIES - Ma and Bessie: Queens of the Bisexual Blues Bessie’s career took a turn in the 30s, but she kept on performing and recording as much as possible. © Historical Homos 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab38b72e2ccd14cc02b2e79/1587917213038-3RRS6435SWSG71I8GSE7/bessie+ma_v3_final.jpg QUEERIOSITIES - Ma and Bessie: Queens of the Bisexual Blues Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith: Bisexual Queens of the Blues. © Historical Homos 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab38b72e2ccd14cc02b2e79/1587911512326-KR9IFDZ7DK1JLHEC4A41/ma-rainey-prove-it-on-me.jpg QUEERIOSITIES - Ma and Bessie: Queens of the Bisexual Blues Advertisement for “Prove It On Me Blues,” with Ma Rainey depicted in full bull-daggery. Note the policeman looking on, none the wiser. (via LGBTQ Nation) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab38b72e2ccd14cc02b2e79/1587912644242-CRG7G0H2KAZFQS9S2U2R/Bessie_Smith_on_stage-5b224d293037130036633665.jpg QUEERIOSITIES - Ma and Bessie: Queens of the Bisexual Blues Bessie Smith dancing up a storm with a male chorus line in Philadelphia. © Anthony Barbosa / Getty Images. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab38b72e2ccd14cc02b2e79/1587917716939-3SUMGCDQ0NHRG51V4W3Y/GettyImages-74296264-1.jpg QUEERIOSITIES - Ma and Bessie: Queens of the Bisexual Blues Bessie Smith poses c. 1925. © Edward Elcha/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab38b72e2ccd14cc02b2e79/1587918182700-UYANFGMFJNNFU3FLVF33/josephine+baker.jpg QUEERIOSITIES - Ma and Bessie: Queens of the Bisexual Blues Josephine Baker wouldn’t have had a career if it weren’t for bisexual badasses like Ma and Bessie. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab38b72e2ccd14cc02b2e79/1587919782789-U00M9LRGW4Q4QZS7T5W7/bessie+ma_v3_crop+2_new.jpg QUEERIOSITIES - Ma and Bessie: Queens of the Bisexual Blues Ma and Bessie were two of the earliest “race record” stars, though there were many more and the earliest were exclusively women. © Historical Homos 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab38b72e2ccd14cc02b2e79/1587912507262-D7RS9XVDQFX80U9D8IVV/Rainey+1924+with+Dorsey.jpg QUEERIOSITIES - Ma and Bessie: Queens of the Bisexual Blues Ma Rainey and her Georgia band. Ma was short, dark-skinned, raspy and typically bedecked in glittering jewels. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab38b72e2ccd14cc02b2e79/1587918883503-SFAKDFPRQAXF7WG5HH45/Jim+Crow+by+Thomas+Rice.jpg QUEERIOSITIES - Ma and Bessie: Queens of the Bisexual Blues Minstrel shows were originally staffed with whites in blackface - the original and most famous was the character of Jim Crow, invented by Thomas Rice. These hellaciously racist shows continued to tour in the South well past the Civil War, but by the late 19th century, black entertainers set up their own minstrel troupes. © NY Historical Society https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab38b72e2ccd14cc02b2e79/1587919937746-LK1NR1MZZ0PQIS40UTO3/bessie+smith+with+her+niece.jpg QUEERIOSITIES - Ma and Bessie: Queens of the Bisexual Blues Bessie Smith and Ruby Smith (niece) pose with the Dancing Sheiks, 1924. © Anthony Barbosa/Getty Images https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab38b72e2ccd14cc02b2e79/1587917428601-0SQ7JGJNKO5EHE43RMW2/Harlem-Renaissance-Map.jpg QUEERIOSITIES - Ma and Bessie: Queens of the Bisexual Blues Note “Gladys’ Clam House,” a haven for adventurous queers seeking the boisterous entertainments of 250-lb “bull-dagger,” Gladys Bentley. © Library of Congress https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab38b72e2ccd14cc02b2e79/1587917895171-4D5XS5FTP2DFZEYB3UGE/R-3329413-1364914411-7842.jpeg.jpg QUEERIOSITIES - Ma and Bessie: Queens of the Bisexual Blues A later re-issue of Ma’s tracks. Note the content: barrel houses (a bar), moonshine and praying the lawd to send a man. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab38b72e2ccd14cc02b2e79/1587912416673-6VAD25B51C83CL1PIDN8/bessie+smith.jpg QUEERIOSITIES - Ma and Bessie: Queens of the Bisexual Blues Bessie Smith, celebrated bull-dyke. © Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab38b72e2ccd14cc02b2e79/1587920312005-5V3ZK3NNNLYGGOSY2N2H/lady+day.jpeg QUEERIOSITIES - Ma and Bessie: Queens of the Bisexual Blues The next generation of bisexual blues badassery: Lady Day (via Medium). https://www.historicalhomos.com/queeriosities/2020-alexander-the-great monthly 0.5 2020-04-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab38b72e2ccd14cc02b2e79/1586709768522-B3519PIBW7E6P7UZB99S/Alexander_the_Great_mosaic.jpg QUEERIOSITIES - Alexander, the Great Murdering Fuckboy The notorious ‘Alexander Mosaic’ from House of the Faun at Pompeii, c. 100 BCE. 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