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LGBTQ* History and Vintage Photographs You Should Know
Greenwich Village Drag Ball circa 1920s (photograph)
Balls were elaborate festivals for the who’s who of society. They were also the queerest scene in town, bringing forth drag performers, the lgbtq* community, celebrating sexual identity and gender expression.
Quintessential Movies from the Gay (male) Film Canon You Should Know
- The Broken Hearts Club — West Hollywood gay softball team learns how to love, the power of friendship and coping with loss (actors include Zach Braff, Andrew Keegan and Dean Cain)
- Get Real — gay teen comes out (and being a gay teen means drama will follow)
- A Single Man — based on the Isherwood novel, this film follows what it means to be gay in the 1960s and what we do to keep on after tragedy
- Latter Days — A promiscuous gay man from California meets a private Mormon and their encounters rearrange both of their lives
- Looking for Langston — split film crossing back and forth between 1920s Harlem and 1980s England, this film invites you to explore the ways people express themselves and the places they find comfort
- Brokeback Mountain — the life story of two men who meet while sheep ranching
- Milk — biopic about the life of Harvey Milk, S.F. first openly gay elected city official
- Shelter — a young man returns home to care for his family, finding companionship in a place least expected
- Brother to Brother — taking place during days of the Harlem Renaissance, this film follows a young artist and aging poet
- Walk on Water — following the suicide of his wife, an Israeli intelligence agent is assigned to befriend the grandchildren of a Nazi war criminal
Pygmy Sea Horse
One of the world’s smallest seahorses, the Pygmy Seahorse (Hippocampus bargibanti), is no bigger than your pinky finger. These tiny animals are masters of disguise, using a strategy of blending into their surrounding environment to survive.
(via: Smithsonian Ocean Portal) (photo: Coral Reef Alliance/Scubazoo)
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