12 Insane Queer Pulp Novel Covers
(via Buzzfeed)
Campy, hilariously strange, awkward, these vintage covers are reminders of how far we’ve come from outdated LGBT stereotypes. A gay safari does sound kind of fun, though.
Above: “Anonymous,” San Francisco, 2009. Katy Grannan at Salon 94.
- As the year comes to a close, we asked our photography critic, Vince Aletti, to tell us his top ten exhibitions of 2011. Click through for the rest of his picks: http://nyr.kr/s2UULh
Wearing a black and white nylon dress, false eyelashes, heavy perfume and 5 o’clock shadow, Ray (or Rae) Bourbon enters Beverly Hills Municipal Court on August 1, 1956, to deny he (or she) was guilty of impersonating a woman. He produced a certificate from a Mexican doctor changing his sex. The entertainer and 14 dogs live in a Venice trailer court.
I was loving Detox in black and white. That was so creative. I couldn’t take my eyes off of her. It was like she pulled herself out of an old 1940s television set, caught a cab, and came straight to the finale. She stood so much from the other queens on stage. It was an amazing and believable look. Loved it.
“Santorum’s views are unapologetically black-and-white. He advocates that any doctor performing an abortion under any circumstances should be criminally charged.
Even for rape. Even for incest. Even for saving the mother’s life. None of them justify abortion in Rick Santorum’s world.
Unless it happens to be Rick Santorum’s wife, and she might have died if not for her 20-week-old fetus being “partial birth” aborted. That’s different. Because, you know, that’s JUSTIFIED. Unlike all those other mothers.” - Santorum’s wife’s abortion was different, you see.
[TW: rape and incest]
My god, this man is such a huge douchefuck and a waste of space.
Georgia Black was born in 1906 in South Carolina, USA. She began living as a woman whilst working as a house servant in Charleston as a teenager, supplied with feminine clothing by a fellow household staff member.
She married twice, adopting a child during her first marriage. Both of her...
najm and asmar disguised as bride. lebanon 1950s (arab image foundation)
queerrilla
I’m turning 37 soon.
I’ve spent like 14 years on tumblr.
So here is a balls slip like a proper dad would.
